Charles A. Coulombe, in The European Conservative, reflects on common lies. Chief among them is that European civilization and the white race are responsible for all the evil that now exists. Coulombe profiles the deceitful narratives facing the world today and drives home the criticality of refuting those lies with vigour.
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.


