Thomas D. Klingenstein bemoans modern architecture’s physical expression of the woke regime. Classical architecture utilizes and displays good order, reason and natural law. Starkly contrasting this, modernist and current architecture suffocates, generates self-loathing and is as welcoming as a jail. And, like wokism, we plebs are not permitted to offer constructive criticism. Bonus read: check out Vancouver architect Oberto Oberti’s C2C critique of modernist and current architecture.
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.
