By ROSS DOUTHAT When Paul Ehrlich, noted overpopulation doom-monger, passed away last winter, his death inspired online controversialist Richard Hanania to go back and read some of Ehrlich’s original writings on the “population bomb.” What Hanania discovered, he wrote, was that Ehrlich was actually worse than the quotes and clips often plucked by his critics would suggest. He was profoundly hostile to human progress, “misanthropic” at every turn, always ready with “blueprints” that would make…
