Inez Feltscher-Stepman offers a bleak view of youth in The American Mind. Kids are on a mission to “decolonize” the West and undermine their country, are increasingly anti-Semitic and rationalize violence as “vengeance of the oppressed”. Millions of them will soon begin moving into positions of leadership, and having to pay income tax, Stepman predicts, will not make them more conservative.
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.


