The hegemony of liberal ideas is ending. In its place is an updated version of Marxism, one wielding an eye-glazing array of terms like “social justice,” “anti-racism,” “critical race theory,” “wokeness” and many others. Yoram Hazony, writing in Quillette, argues that liberals will either have to submit to the new Marxists or assemble a pro-democracy alliance with conservatives.
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.
