Despite her racist Twitter rants that include such gems as “white lives don’t matter” and “abolish whiteness,” Priyamvada Gopal has been promoted to a full professorship at Cambridge University. Writing in Unherd, Douglas Murray wonders how long society will tolerate such privileged 21st century cry-bullies.
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.
