Great stuff from Professor Steve Horwitz,
If dogmatism is the continued arrogant adherence to a set of ideas regardless of the evidence to support them or arguments against them, the real dogmatists right now are those who continue to cling stubbornly to the belief, against the piled up evidence to the contrary, that more government is the way out of this mess. Liberals and progressives (as well as a good number of conservatives) who claim to believe in reason and evidence and to oppose dogma need to take a good long look in the mirror and decide whether they want to take the advice of Einstein who defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Side note: quoted definition of insanity has been frequently misattributed to Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain or Albert Einstein (according to Wikipedia.org). Most likely origin Rita Mae Brown
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