Americans are in many ways more divided today than they were in 1860. Restoring American unity amidst the current rancour sounds almost comically impossible. Writing in the Claremont Review of Books, Michael Anton lays out an ambitious program for reuniting Americans, focused on a working-class that has been abandoned by both parties.
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.
