America is denying its roots. Under the guise of social activism, a lawless and violent mob is on the rampage. The editors of Commentary reject the mob’s radical re-writing of American history along with its newly invented heresies. And they remind us that eventually, if left unchecked, the mob comes for us all.
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.
