The idea of liberty never seemed especially scary to me. That was what we were all about as Americans – people fleeing despotism. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country," declared Benjamin Franklin. I write for Liberty magazine. The Statue of Liberty is the American symbol, a salute to freedom, not to caution or obedience. I was surprised, consequently, to see John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty," a classic defense of freedom and individual sovereignty, getting an honorable mention on a list published by Human Events of the "Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries." Human Events, "The...