Joel Kotkin in Spiked reveals the reason for Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris’ seemingly spontaneous shift in policies: ever-more Americans, he writes, are wearying of woke/“progressive”/DEI ideologies. Finally recognizing their plunge in popularity, Kotkin writes, Harris and her campaign are attempting – insincerely, of course – to distance themselves from their once-loudly proclaimed principles.
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.
