Toddlers and Conservatism

Most gratified to report that my one-year-old daughter Martha has become a Conservative. She has embraced property rights. Picking up a watch she prepared to put it in her mouth and chew in, hitherto her customary left wing practice. "Mama's watch," I told her. She paused and then handed it her mother. A great breakthrough. Not just in terms of child development but also of ideology.