A Great Day for the Washington Monthly

Publications with far, far more money have come and gone: Washington Monthly hits 50 years today. And you can still get a printed issue delivered to your home by a uniformed agent of the federal government!

Here's a reflection on my 1980 story predicting the energy crisis -- then all the rage in Washington and Brussels, supposed to end the world -- actually would be replaced by a glut of oil and natural gas. Which is what happened!

To my great amusement, today's Wall Street Journal has a story reporting Washington and Brussels are now upset by -- the glut of oil and gas.