The Rockefeller Brothers helped launched the environmental movement 50 years ago by embracing the Club of Rome’s no-growth dogma. Today America’s corporate aristocracy advocates radical climate policy. In American Greatness, Joel Kotkin counsels that reducing human consumption spares the wealthy while handing the bill to the poor.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


