The “American Dream,” bred and refined in cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, is in widespread disorderly retreat, according to Joel Kotkin. But not everywhere. In Unherd, Kotkin notes that it is flowering in Texas, a state that still celebrates entrepreneurship and freedom and is reaping the rewards population growth, economic development and plentiful jobs.
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.
