The Economist Philip Pilkington wrote an essay on what he called “Capitalism’s Overlooked Contradiction�. He identified this contradiction as the “tendency of the rate of people to fall.� Pilkington was here borrowing from Marx, whose prediction of a necessary collapse of capitalism and transition to communism was premised on a fundamental contradiction he believed he... Read More

Elon Musk often tweets (or x’s) about the danger of depopulation: “Far too many people are under the illusion that Earth is overpopulated, even though birth rate trends are so obviously headed to population collapse�, “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far�, “The world’s population is accelerating towards collapse�, etc.... Read More

Anyone with an understanding of the realities of heredity and ethnicity knows, as the saying goes, that “demography is destiny.� To understand this is easy, to actually act upon these demographic trends is, however, quite difficult. It is very hard to get your citizens to make more babies and even hard to get the “right�... Read More

“Hatched, matched, and dispatched�—my mother’s term for the births, marriages, and deaths columns in our local paper. Let's visit the hatcheries. What's mainly happening in the hatcheries: a slowdown of business. Americans are not making as many babies as we used to: Births plunge to record lows in United States, MSN, May 17, 2018. The... Read More

The Parsis are dying out. This people of western India, originally from Iran and famous for their role in trade, science, and industry, may disappear by mid-century, having already fallen from 114,890 in 1941 to 69,001 in 2011. Deaths outnumber births by a ratio of almost three to one. What has caused this calamity? War?... Read More