"It’s Creativity that Made the Modern World"

"It’s the utopianism of both the left and the right that’s bad. You say, the only dignified life is being a soldier—that’s the aristocratic idea. Or the only dignified life is being a saint. And those two get adopted, one by the right and one by the left."

Joshua Rothman in The Boston Globe interviews Deirdre McCloskey about her new book, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World.