In The Federalist, Shawn Fleetwood expresses puzzlement that President Donald Trump has seemingly ditched his vow to begin cancelling and refusing visas for Chinese students due to their rampant spying and theft of intellectual property. Fleetwood frets that Trump may not share Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s view that they’re a profound threat to national security, and instead regards student visas as a mere bargaining chip for a trade deal.
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.
