Many have lost hope in the educational usefulness of post-secondary institutions, with their woke obsessions, destruction of free thinking and assault on standards. In City Journal, Wai Wah Chin sees reason for hope with the reinstatement by one of the U.S.’s leading academic lights of its knowledge/skills-based admissions process.
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.
