In The Washington Free Beacon, Matthew Continetti notes that, for the first time since 1892, this year’s U.S. Presidential election will be a two-incumbent affair. The last time, Continetti pointedly notes, voters elected a President to a non-consecutive second term. That sounds eerily familiar. Could history repeat itself?
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.
