John Fund and Wendell Cox in National Review show turning political tides Down Under, where progressives often optimistically point. The referendum defeat of Australia’s race-based “Voice” scheme and the demise of Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party in New Zealand suggest that, perhaps, those countries have reached “peak woke.”
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.
