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The political paternalists and the social engineers are giddy with hope and anticipation. They are confident that their day has, once again, arrived. The era of even bigger government has returned, and any remaining free-market system is simply out of date. They are full of promises and plans to set the world right, as long as they and the right politicians are in charge.
To bring all this about, there is need for “A New Global Economic Consensus,” or so we are told by Mariana Mazzucato, in an essay on the website of Project Syndicate in late 2021. Dr. Mazzucato holds a professorship at University College, London, in the United Kingdom, and is the founding director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is also the Chair of the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health for All, along with being on the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs. In other words, ...
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” These wise words from Thomas Jefferson seem particularly insightful after nearly two years of COVID hysteria. Across the country, and around the world, governments are in full steam, grasping power and lashing out at anyone who questions authority. What we're seeing is the “natural progress” of an ongoing assault on individual freedom.
It's bad enough in the United States, where “lockdowns,” mask mandates, and attempts to compel people to get vaccinated, have run the economy onto a sandbar and pit citizens against one another. But it could be worse. Look at what governments are doing in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and closer to home, in Canada. Societies that once prided themselves on their liberal values have turned into dystopian police states almost overnight.
When American statesmen gathered in Philadelphia in 1787, they understood the nature of government and the tendency of its institutions to grow at ...
