infantilism

The separation of those functions inoculates Britain from the infantilism peculiar to the American republic.

It’s a childish move, but in keeping with the infantilism that still shapes the brothers’ uneasy relationship and their awkwardness with outsiders, particularly women.

Others might speculate on this, but only I can truly channel Trump, since only I possess the requisite degree of infantilism:

Biden’s grown-up respect for institutional proprieties might be infectious, encouraging temperateness among his dissatisfied countrymen, 74 million of whom voted for four more years of infantilism.

Here, I thought, is finally a moment where we shed the infantilism inherent in favoring mythology over truth.