The political appeal of left-wing parties historically was the promise of a more equitable distribution of wealth. But the left’s obsession with multiculturalism and identity politics has caused it to abandon the working class. Law and Liberty’s Eric Kaufmann suggests why the left is unlikely to adapt to new electoral realities.
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.
