It’s not just the U.S. that attributes the pandemic to Beijing’s malfeasance. Australia, France, and Britain have all condemned the Communist regime for covering up the coronavirus threat. Not Canada. Writing in The American Conservative, Nico Johnson argues that Justin Trudeau’s politically expedient handling of China erodes the democratic institutions he was elected to protect.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.
