E. Calvin Beisner

Dr. Beisner is Founder and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance; former Associate Professor of Historical Theology & Social Ethics, at Knox Theological Seminary, and of Interdisciplinary Studies, at Covenant College; and author of “Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate” and “Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future.”

China’s One-Child Policy Ends—Time for a Little (Yes, Little) Celebration

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The Communist Chinese government’s Xinhua news agency announced today that the government is abolishing that country’s one-child policy. The policy, which Susan Yoshihara, senior vice president for research at the Center for Family & Human Rights and co-editor of Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics has called “the world’s worst law,” “resulted in more […]

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“The End of Doom” Sadly Doesn’t Mean the End of Doomsters

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In previous books Ecoscam (1993), The True State of the Planet (edited, 1995), Earth Report 2000 (edited, 2000), Global Warming and Other Eco-myths (edited, 2002), and Liberation Biology (2005), plus many articles in Reason and elsewhere, Ronald Bailey has marshaled, often with other authors, massive amounts of hard data against environmental doomsters’ claims of present or predictions of future disasters from

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What Threatens Liberty and Increases Abortion, Human Trafficking, Government Debt, and Poverty?

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Conservatives, Christian and non-Christian alike, share concerns about civil and religious liberty, abortion and the sanctity of human life, human trafficking and pornography and how they damage families, fiscal responsibility in government, and poverty. What many don’t know is that there are links between climate alarmism and every one of these issues. Let me take

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The Dangerous Linkage of Government and Science—Ike Was Right

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a great man, a true lover of liberty, and very suspicious of the power of government at the same time that he recognized its necessity. Millions of Americans would benefit enormously from reading his Farewell Address. Most have heard of the “military-industrial complex” but don’t know that it was Eisenhower

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Freeman Dyson, World’s Top Physicist, Calls Out Obama, and Supports Cornwall Alliance Open Letter

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Why did one of the world’s top physicists—ever—sign the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation’s Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change, which challenges climate alarmism, though he’s a liberal, a Democrat, likes President Obama, and has a strong background in climate science? My latest article at Townhall.com explains. His reasons for signing that

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Climate McCarthyism Alive and Well in France

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France Télévisions’ chief weather forecaster, Philippe Verdier, boldly told the world in his new book Climat Investigation that the IPCC and other climate alarmists are guilty of “taking the world hostage” to bad science, bad economics, and bad politics. It didn’t take long for the axe to fall. France Télévisions, a government-run station, put him

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What the Dems said about climate change

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The money quote on climate change in the first Democratic presidential “debate” was Senator Bernie Sanders’s response to moderator Anderson Cooper’s question, “what is the greatest national security threat to the United States?” “The scientific community is telling us,” Sanders said, “that if we do not address the global crisis of climate change, transform our

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Climate Change’s Great Legacy: International Wealth Redistribution

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A $Trillion here, a $Trillion there—pretty soon you’re talking real money. No, I’m not talking about the U.S. national debt, now at over $18 trillion. That’s a very bad thing that threatens to impoverish our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. I’m talking about the $Trillions being demanded by developing-world countries from rich countries (primarily the United

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