Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 88 of George Will’s 2021 book, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 – a wonderful collection of many of his columns over these years; (the column from which the quotation below is drawn was originally published in the Washington Post on January 9th, 2020):

[U.S. Senator Josh] Hawley asserts, without demonstrating, a broad “collapse of community” across America, and blames this, without explaining the causation, on “market worship,” without identifying the irrational worshipers. His logic is opaque, but his destination is clear: Because markets do not properly allocate wealth and opportunity, much of their role must be supplanted by government.

Confidence in markets and confidence in government often vary inversely.