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Pro-Natalism

Deep Dive: An Impending Population Crisis? World Fertility Rate Hits 60-Year Low
Continued low fertility rates will cause a gradual implosion of the world’s economy as the population ages and dies. At a certain point it becomes…
 • Rod D. Martin and Guest Author
Can China Escape Its Demographic Death Spiral?
China's population is on track to drop by as much as 75%. America will outnumber it by the end of the century. The process is now virtually unstoppable…
 • Fuxian Yi
The America Party Is A Bad Idea...For Elon
Musk's entry into American civic life has been highly positive. But the legalities surrounding his new political party could derail his plans, and his…
 • Rod D. Martin
Futurism and Traditionalism
In looking to the future, do we also need to look to the past?
 • Peter Hague
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…
 • Daniel Hess
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.
 • Daniel Hess
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.
 • Rod D. Martin and Guest Author
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…
 • Daniel Hess
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…
 • Daniel Hess
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.
 • Daniel Hess
A Russia Without Russians? Putin’s Disastrous Demographics
Putin has turned a daunting crisis into a cataclysm.
 • Guest Author
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…
 • Daniel Hess
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