Censorship is a constant of history, and every age spews forth squads who stand ready to rectify our errors of thinking – always in the name of a greater good. Frank Furedi, writing in Spiked, tells how “white supremacy” has been transformed into an all-purpose term used to pathologize white people and discredit some of human civilization’s most important legacies.
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.
