Reality Based

Deidre McCloskey on a rampage, trying to impart some historical knowledge to fellow academics:

It seems to me that a political philosophy based on fairy tales about what happened in history or what humans are like is going to be less than useless. It is going to be mischievous.

How do I know that my narrative is better than yours? The experiments of the 20th century told me so.

Observe the flood
of blood.