In the wake of Amsterdam’s horrific “Jew hunt”, Rod Dreher reports in The European Conservative on the surrounding rise of violent crime in the Netherlands, describing the correlation between that phenomenon and growth in the country’s Muslim population. Dreher hopes that the U.S. Presidential election result will inspire Europeans to also free themselves from their “progressive” rulers.
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.
