Bonus Quotation of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on May 19, 2020

in Current Affairs, Politics

… is from this recent Spectator essay by the brilliant novelist Lionel Shriver:

Politics, as opposed to science, does not reward the correction of mistakes, given that correcting a mistake also entails admitting to having made one. Worse, the bigger the mistake, the greater the political urgency of defending it at all costs.

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