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Pro-Natalism

Futurism and Traditionalism
In looking to the future, do we also need to look to the past?
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How to Have More Grandchildren
Get your grown children out of the house, then help them out! It's good for you, it's good for them, and it's good for easing or reversing the global…
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Population Collapse: Fertility is More Limited by Age Than Young People Realize
People aren't having as many children as they want, because they believe things about age and fertility that simply are not true.
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Low Birthrates Will Devastate the Global Economy If Not Reversed
With aging and declining or even collapsing populations, we lose specialization and economies of scale. Eventually innovation grinds to a halt.
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The Inadvertent One Child Policy in Rich Countries
Larger families are de facto legally banned from most cities. The harm this is about to cause the entire industrialized world is immense. But it’s…
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Why Progressives Need to Care About Demographic Collapse (And You Do Too)
In recent years, concern about birthrates and the need for more children has come to be seen as a conservative issue. The left still wants dramatic…
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Low Birthrates Will Devastate the Global Economy If Not Reversed
A primer for the uninitiated: what is happening with fertility numbers, why it's such a big economic problem, and what some possible solutions.
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A Russia Without Russians? Putin’s Disastrous Demographics
Putin has turned a daunting crisis into a cataclysm.
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Big Shock: Getting Married Is the Single Biggest Driver of Fertility
For all the talk of marriage becoming obsolete, a funny thing started happening since 2008: Birthrates outside of marriage fell by 28%, while birthrates…
Fertility and Culture: A Deep Dive
After many years of low fertility and policy efforts to raise births in various countries, many pundits conclude that nothing works. They're wrong.
Niall Ferguson: China’s Demographics Spell Decline Not Domination
As I've been telling you for two decades now.
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