Most popes urge austerity as a means of saving one’s soul. Pope Francis urges it for a different reason: to save the planet. The pope’s one-sided treatment of technology, free markets, and consumerism ...

No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An Essay on the Principles of Population,” the “Malthusian” position – the idea that ...

Mention the name “Malthus” and you are met with a storm of abuse. The media elite, protected from nature in their urban bubbles, never tire of pronouncing Thomas Robert Malthus’s An Essay on the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Few scholars have been so maligned as Thomas Robert Malthus. Charles Dickens parodied him in Scrooge’s invective, “If they would rather die … they had better do it and leave off the surplus population ...

With unemployment high, economic recovery elusive, and gasoline prices near record levels, the term Great Recession has joined the economic infamy list that is only topped by the 1930s Great ...

This is going to sound a little strange, that Saudi Arabia has an essentially Malthusian economy, when it's actually built upon the oil that fuels Promethean growth, the very opposite of Malthusian ...

It turns out that dissenting from the popular dogma that the world is about to be overwhelmed by a population explosion tends to provoke people. Many readers of my ...