A recent conference on anti-Semitism in Jerusalem was oddly welcoming to members of ultra-conservative European parties. For Dov Maimon of Jewish News Syndicate, it is a “dizzying paradox” that European Jews are feeling safer in “illiberal” democracies such as Hungary, Poland and Czechia, where civic order is imposed firmly and street violence is not tolerated, than in traditional liberal havens like the UK and France.
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.
