In City Journal, Christopher F. Rufo unmasks the U.S. federal government’s prodigious spending on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Rufo details how a web of moralistically preening consulting firms have billed billions for things like training “on the brain science of inclusion” or “anti-racism analytics tools”, and how the DEI ideology – as bad as it always was – has degenerated into yet another money-grubbing racket.
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.
