… is from page 226 of my colleague Peter Boettke’s 2017 paper “Rebuilding the Liberal Project,” as this paper appears in Pete’s 2021 book, The Struggle for a Better World:
True liberals must be vociferous critics of the intellectual errors committed by the progressive elite, and the empirical consequences that such errors have brought in their wake.
DBx: Pictured here is FTC chairwoman Lina Khan – a progressive elite who fancies that she knows better than markets what are the details of competitive processes and outcomes – and when, and by how much, market competition should be suppressed in order to attempt to promote other goals and fancies.
