The “red pill” sphere of influence on young, spiritually malnourished men is epically mistaken and misdirected, writes Harrison Pitt in The European Conservative. The movement’s rhetoric of (often limitlessly promiscuous) self-actualization is founded on thinkers like Nietzsche, Machiavelli and Darwin and is not, Pitt warns, grounded in traditional (and conservative) virtues like duty, self-sacrifice, piety and service.
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.
