One minute history of conservative anti-rationalism

“Conservatives of this temperament love nothing more than a story about how some well- meaning attempt to improve the human conditions backfired (through the “law of unintended consequences”) leaving the supposed beneficiaries much worse off than they were before (and egg on the face of the chastened liberals, who with their insufferable combination of moral superiority and intellectual hubris thought that they could improve the human condition).”