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Singapore to admit 30,000 new citizens annually to offset falling birth rates
Slowly, but surely, countries are starting to admit what they have known for a long time: that immigration has and will be used in the future to attempt to avoid the demographic catastrophe wrought by the collapse of birth rates. In this endeavor, however, only the wealthy countries will succeed, resulting in dystopia elsewhere.
Tocqueville’s Prophecy
On Alexis de Tocqueville’s prescient prophecy of a Nanny State.
The Malaise of Modernity
A review of a foundational text for the communitarian critique of liberalism.
Canadian lawyer says fertility rate is at all-time low and mass migration is not the solution
Canada's death spiral.
The Great Feminization
"Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition."
Is Global Homo More Dangerous Than Islam?
The Sexual Revolution has taken exponentially more American lives and wounded more Americans than Islamism.
An Epidemic of Loneliness
A Biden-era Surgeon General's advisory gets the causes of our epidemic of loneliness wrong, and indeed confuses some catalysts for causes, but does provide some solid empirical evidence for the epidemic of loneliness.
Secularism, Security, and “Civilizational Erasure”
"Civilizational erasure", "a God-sized hole", and "demographic self-immolation." Weigel is right on target.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Weston Skaggs, a Christian songwriter from Northeast Ohio, hits the nail on the head in his 2023 assessment of a classic movie and it the dwindling appreciation of it by Americans.
Atomization? What atomization??
More signs of the growing atomization of our society.
Plummeting Global Fertility Rates
Although it's beginning to garner a lot of media attention, many people seem to be lithely unaware that global total fertility rates - the average number of children that a woman has over her life - is plummeting.
The Left’s Family Problem: Marriage and Kids Cratering Among Liberal Young Adults
Since the 1980s, marriage rates have declined for both conservatives and liberals. But the declines have been greater among liberals, for both men and women.
Assisted suicide deaths account for 5% of Canada’s deaths in 2024
Love has grown cold in Canada.
Book Review: Why Liberalism Failed
This book opened my eyes with its spot on diagnosis of the cause of many of our societal ills.
China to impose tax on condoms in effort to reverse declining birth rate
After decades of imposing a "one-child" policy, sometimes using brutal methods, this is not a little bit ironic.
The Birth Dearth Gives Rise to Pro-Natalism
“Happy, and hopeful, people have babies. “ “For many women, the answer is far simpler. They need to trust that the losses and changes of parenthood they might fear—of their bodies, lifestyles, sense of self, and current relationship dynamics—will be worth…