In The European Conservative, Jonathon Van Maren explores the case of a pink-haired German female pastor marrying four men from three countries and at least two different religions “in the eyes of God” outside Berlin’s St. Paul the Apostle Church. Writes Van Maren with formidable restraint: “It is a snapshot of cultural collapse.” The union is known as a “polycule” and, some suspect, is aimed at gradually normalizing polygamy.
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.
