Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 615 of Deirdre McCloskey’s new paper “Globalization, Long May It Reign,” which is a chapter in the collection Free Trade in the Twenty-First Century (edited by Max Rangeley and Daniel Hannan, 2025) (original emphasis):

The economic historian J.R.T. Hughes pointed out long ago that Americans have two contradictory positions, “Don’t tread on me,” and “Don’t do that.” That “that” consist of things like dressing as you want or loving whom you want or buying where you want. Globalization is part of liberty.