Dr. Joseph Shaw discusses the failures of the ideas of John Stuart Mill and traces the evolution of the liberalism of individual liberty to the liberalism of ‘safe spaces’. John Stuart Mill argued that people should be able to do and say whatever does not harm others, because only then will we be able to test our opinions in a competitive market-place of ideas. This rules out commitments by individuals and societies to particular values and projects and so makes impossible the development of the high cultures such as those Mill professes to admire.