“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”
Over the years, this maxim has been attributed to everyone from Winston Churchill to John Adams and Victor Hugo. Whatever its origins, it captures a common pearl of conventional wisdom: that young people are necessarily lef…
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