The world-famous Harry Potter author has followed the trans debate closely, so she has observed the abuse heaped upon dissidents. But after she tweeted her support for Maya Forstater, a woman who believes that sex is determined by biology, even Rowling was unprepared for the hatred and vitriol directed at her.
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.


