Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 244 of Deirdre McCloskey’s superb forthcoming book, Equality of Permission [original emphasis]:

I have called primary liberalism “adultism.” Primary liberalism alone among political philosophies does not treat citizens as children. The conservative wants to police and dominate the bad children called citizens. The left progressive wants to subsidize and dominate the sad children called citizens. Bad or sad, all citizens are made into figurative children, and then serfs.