… is from page 95 of George Will’s newly published 2019 book, The Conservative Sensibility:
It is the distinction between the public and the private spheres of life. On this distinction, freedom depends. About this, progressivism says: Never mind. Government should undertake to “level the playing field.” This recurring phrase is revealing: Playing fields are leveled by bulldozers, which are not nice emblems of government. The result of government’s equalizing aspirations is a paradox – power wielded by elites claiming expertise in the manufacture of equality.
It is the distinction between the public and the private spheres of life. On this distinction, freedom depends. About this, progressivism says: Never mind. Government should undertake to “level the playing field.” This recurring phrase is revealing: Playing fields are leveled by bulldozers, which are not nice emblems of government. The result of government’s equalizing aspirations is a paradox – power wielded by elites claiming expertise in the manufacture of equality.The post Quotation of the Day… appeared first on Cafe Hayek.