February 8th, 2013
Jonathan V. Last is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard in Washington. His writings have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Post, The Claremont Review of Books, First Things, The Week,Salon, Slate, TV Guide, and elsewhere.
His book on fertility and demographics, What to Expect When No One’s Expecting, is published by Encounter. You can order it now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, and Books-a-Million. And become a friend of the book (or JVL) on Goodreads.
What people are saying about What to Expect When No One’s Expecting:
Abby Schachter, “On Not Bringing Up Baby,” Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2013
David Goldman, “Pregnant Pause,” Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2013
Allison Lin, “Weak Economy Means Fewer Babies,” NBC Today.com, July 9, 2013
World magazine “Books of the Year,” June 29, 2013
Interview on CBS Sunday Morning, May 12, 2013
Interview with Les Sillars, Touchstone, May/June 2013
Bruce Thornton, “The Coming Demographic Crisis,” Defining Ideas, April 25, 2013
Walter Russell Mead, “Capsule Review,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2013
Lecture at the Family Research Council, April 3, 2013
Nick Gillespie, “Let It Breed,” BookForum, April/May 2013
Scott Yenor, “Part II: What to Do When No One Is Expecting,” The Blue Review, March 25, 2013
Michael R. Rosen, “Expecting the Unexpected,” The American, March 25, 2013
Electa Draper, “Decline in Birth Rates Breeds Worry,” Denver Post, March 11, 2013
Bill Donohue, “Our Anti-Child Culture,” Catholic League Catalyst, March 2013
David DesRosiers, “What to Expect?” Washington Times, March 4, 2013
Brad Wilcox, “The Empty Cradle?” National Review, March 11, 2013
Mark Tapson, “Why Have Kids?” Acculturated, February 28, 2013
Interview on Fox Business Channel’s Stossel, February 28, 2013
Interview on MSNBC’s The Cycle, February 28, 2013
Interview with John Hawkins on RightWingNews.com, February 27, 2013
Scott Yenor, “Population Decline and the Birth Dearth,” Public Discourse, February 26, 2013
Celeste McGovern, “Demographic Disaster Looms for America,” National Catholic Register, February 26, 2013
Kyle Smith, “Young Americans Should Beware Grandpa Simpson,” New York Post, February 23, 2013
Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez on National Review Online, February 21, 2013
William McGurn, “Children of Men,” Wall Street Journal, February 20, 2013
Interview with Ed Driscoll on PJ Media, February 18, 2013
AEI Bradley Lecture Series, “What to Expect When No One’s Expecting,” February 11, 2013
AEI’s Banter Podcast, February 11, 2013
Interview on The 700 Club, February 11, 2013
Bryan Caplan, “Demographic Disaster?” February 10, 2013
Justin Green, “What Can We Do About America’s Baby Bust?” Daily Beast, February 8, 2013
Jay Evensen, “Overpopulation? We Should Be So Lucky,” Deseret News, February 7, 2013
JVL on Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld, February 6, 2013
Interview on The Blaze Real News, February 6, 2013
Interview on Fox Business Channel Tonight with Lou Dobbs, February 5, 2013
Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online, February 5, 2013
10 Questions with the Daily Caller, February 5, 2013
Interview on CBS This Morning, February 5, 2013
Coffee and Markets Podcast, February 5, 2013
National Review “Between the Covers,” podcast February 5, 2013
Laura Vanderkam, “What to Expect,” February 4, 2013
After Words, C-SPAN2, February 2, 2013
Austin Ruse, “No Babies, No Future,” Crisis magazine, February 1, 2013
Heather Wilhelm, “When Babies Disappear,” RealClearBooks, January 14, 2013
Les Sillars, “America’s Baby Bust,” World magazine, December 19, 2012
Jeff Jacoby, “The Baby Bust Generation,” Boston Globe, December 16, 2012
More JVL on Demographics:
18 commentsThe “Overpopulation” Hoax, The Daily, May 2, 2012
On Wrongful Birth, The Weekly Standard, April 30, 2012
Demography Is Destiny, The Weekly Standard, April 23, 2012
America’s One-Child Policy: A Very Special Episode
7 Billion People, The Weekly Standard, November 14, 2011
China’s Lost Girls, The Weekly Standard, September 26, 2011
The U.N.’s Imaginary Babies, Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2011
Child’s Play with Numbers, WeeklyStandard.com, August 3, 2011
The War Against Girls, Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2011
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2011
Ted, Teddy, and the Natalist Impulse, WeeklyStandard.com, December 7, 2010.
America’s One-Child Policy, The Weekly Standard, September 27, 2010
There Goes the Neighborhood, The Weekly Standard, September 13, 2010
The Depopulation of Greenland, The Weekly Standard, May 17, 2010
Duggar Economics, Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2009
The Population Sink, The Weekly Standard, June 7, 2006.
