How to be Wrong and Prosper

So long as you are predicting doom for the United States, you are free to be as wrong as you want. Accoring to Paul Erlich, by now, the world was supposed to be in ruins, the result of famine and disease, and yet, Paul Erlich still receives juicy speaking fees to make equally inaccurate predictions. Leftists love hearing that the West is about to fall and will pay big money to hear somebody say no matter how wrong they've been in the past. Yale historian Paul Kennedy is the latest to demonstrate this principle. He's been wrong before and he'll be wrong again. And leftists will still buy his books.