In 1790 George Washington assured the “Children of the Stock of Abraham” that the newly founded United States of America would be a safe home where “there shall be none to make him afraid.” Drawing on recent statistics indicating an eruption of thousands of anti-Semitic incidents, Jack Fowler in Philanthropy Daily wonders whether American Jews can still feel safe and whether the Founding Fathers’ stirring promise has lapsed.
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.


