And the baby rattle of nothing. Whatever term you use for modern times and to identify what is distinctive about the modern west, let it be poisonous. Let if reflect that populations are collapsing worldwide, and now that hard times have set in, the collapse is becoming more rapid. It takes a pretty nasty set of circumstances for people to double down on their folly once the folly is exposed.
Whether its the tight plotting, the crisp murders, or the lavish clues I do not say, but the siren call of Steyn’s latest mystery thriller had young Bertie W. battling the many-headed throng around purveyors of fine detective novels everywhere to secure my own copy with a grip of steel and carry it out triumphantly over my head like whatsit after the battle of thingummy. The book is gripping stuff. The advance publicity was good, but the half was not told unto me.
Jeff Jacoby preaches demography.
On the Right we like to think that President Obama is dragging down the economy with uncertainty. By threatening more spending and more regulation, our story goes, he has frozen capital and stymied entrepeneurship. Put in a President (ours) and a party (ours) that is predictable in not making the business and tax environment worse, and, boom, instant economic sunshine. I think Amity Schlaes, The Forgotten Man, originated the story. As a loyal son of the Right, I, of course, accept that uncertainty about tax increases and regulation increases retards the economy. However . . . (more…)
My father and I sometimes feed on each other’s gloom. A case in point was last night, on the drive back from bucking hay for a single sister, when we started discussing the debt crisis. Would it end in hyper-inflation or default coupled with abrupt austerity or both? (more…)
Georgia (the furrin one) got 20% more births after its Archbishop promised to personally baptize every family’s third child, fourth child, fifth child, and so on. I will do him one better. (more…)
I prefer not to bathe in a bubble bath of births.
I’ve got my shoe in hand, now all I need to do is find a podium. (more…)
Being religious doesn’t mean you have more children. Mother staying home means you’ll have more children.
America doesn’t have an economic problem. It has a lifestyle problem. It has a demographic problem. (more…)
“Which prompts the thought that the Europeans are post-Christian in this sense, too: they have tried to “liberate” themselves from the curse of Adam by substituting borrowing for working, and from the curse of Eve by not having children. It was entirely foreseeable that neither of these efforts would end well.” (more…)
This intellectual cuss says he reckons he savvies why some states are blue and some are red. (more…)
Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers do not pay for themselves. So why not tax estates? The money has to come from somewhere, so why not from the dead? (more…)