Due process may be time-consuming, costly and often inefficient but, as Michael Young explains in Tablet, the alternative is downright terrifying. A new tyranny in which political and private institutions collude to financially cancel citizens at the push of a button is becoming reality – and Canada’s Justin Trudeau is in the vanguard.
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.
