Eli Lake in The Free Press celebrates the defeat of Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad and notes the cynical, mendacious attempt by senile U.S. President Joe Biden to take credit for resolution of an unspeakably brutal war that he and predecessor Barack Obama had indulged and allowed to fester.
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.


