“Week in review,” by Anatoly Grablevsky

“Week in review,” by Anatoly Grablevsky

Recent stories of note: “The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich”Darel E. Paul, Compact Last week brought news of the death of Paul Ehrlich, the longtime professor of biology at Stanford University and “the world’s most famous Malthusian, second only to Malthus himself,” as Darel E. Paul dubs him. An obituary in The New York Times called Ehrlich’s predictions of mass starvation resulting from overpopulation—popularized by his best-selling book The Popul…