Why Are We Here, and What Do We Want?

Who knew that liberalism had a mother?

In ‘How To Be A Liberal’, Ian Dunt notes that J S Mill’s most important works - those cornerstones of liberalism - were in fact produced jointly with his wife, Harriet Taylor. “Liberalism had a mother,” writes Dunt. “And she was erased.” Harriet’s absence from popular understanding of the history of liberalism is a reminder of how women’s political, intellectual and material contributions are so often hidden from view.