Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“Some things haven’t changed since 1883. In that year Yale University professor William Graham Sumner, the anti-imperialist laissez-faire liberal and pioneer of American sociology, noticed that ‘we are told every day that great social problems stand before us and demand a solution, and we are assailed by oracles, threats, and warnings in reference to those problems.’ Then, as now, self-styled progressives announced that the sky would fall unless the problem that had most recently caught their fancy was addressed once by the government. Adam Smith’s observation that ‘there is a great deal of ruin in a nation’ was too complacent for these world-savers.” (12/20/24)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2024/12/tgif-unfortunately-forgotten-summer.html