Back in 1968, both Paul Ehrlich, an entomologist at Stanford, and Julian Simon, a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, were disciples of eighteenth century economist Thomas R. Malthus. Malthus claimed that population grows geometrically (2, 4, 8, 16) while food production grows arithmetically (2, 4, 6, 8); hence the world’s … Read more
The following interview transcript, dated around 1860, was recently recovered from the attic of a South Carolina home. The interview subject is Beauregard T. Brownmiller, who served as the last president of the Slavery Rights Coalition. Brownmiller also wrote two best-selling books: The Southern Mystique and Our Property, Our Selves. Could you tell us a … Read more
Casual sex, we are told, has become a casualty of the AIDS epidemic. Those who speak scornfully of the “sexual revolution” are now proclaiming its end, waving the bloody shirt of AIDS. •A newsletter devoted entirely to AIDS contains blocked-off, oversized fillers that blare such admonitions as: “Save sex for marriage! You owe it to … Read more