Bonus Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from this brilliant new column by George Will titled “When American conservatism becomes un-American“:

Nostalgia functioning as political philosophy … is usually romanticism untethered from information.

DBx: Yes. And the information from which such a political philosophy is untethered is information both about what the past really was like, and about what consequences will arise from efforts to coercively construct today and tomorrow into the imaginary yesterday.