Two Roads to Hell

One paved with the good intention of ending poverty — The Tyranny of the Obvious. Hunter Baker reminds us that those behind the War on Poverty "had no inkling that these good-hearted strategies would lead to enduring cycles of poverty and family disintegration that threatened to consume entire generations" and that "[w]ishing for good outcomes resulted in disaster."

The other paved with the evil intention of culling the world of much of its human population — Humanitarians: please spare us humans. Bill Muehlenberg exposes the "energetic people... hatching grandiose schemes" and who claim to "have the good of humanity at heart." He asks, "What will emerge from a secret meeting of American billionaires about reducing population in the Third World?"