No Laughing Matter

Wall Street Journal columnist Andy Kessler can be a funny guy. His Halloween column, “The Deadly No-Growth Craze,” however, was less funny than scary. It turns out that no-growth, an idea harking back to the early 1970s, is back. Only worse: “the new craze, is actually ‘de-growth.” Rhetorically, he asks: “Have we lost our minds? Who could be against raising living standards and reducing poverty?” Where’s the punchline?