Saturday, April 30, 2011

Paul Krugman and Jim Manzi both long for the freedom and safety of their childhood, of course. Everyone does. But the childhood of the 1950s was no safer than the childhood of today.

I would say a lot about this, but Alex Tabarrok does it much better, and I encourage you to go read what he says. The key bit:

Has childhood freedom been lost? No. Childhood freedom hasn’t been “lost,” it has been taken away by parents.

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