What to Expect When
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:
Jay Evensen, “Overpopulation? We Should Be So Lucky,” Deseret News, February 7, 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:
The “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.
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Why is this not available on Kindle?
Hi Jonathan,
It’s not hard to increase American population, however; America is more focused on individual success and not the family unit. I’d like to make a suggestion/opinion regarding how to increase the population of Americans and that is to create a society that values family, maternity/paternity leave of a year (just like our friends across the pond), public bathrooms with little toilets and sinks for little people, public places for nursing mothers to nurse their babies. Also, if 1.5 million women weren’t turning to abortion because they feel so unsupported by those close to them and our society, you would also see the population increase. Just some ideas….
American government and our society do not support the family unit, when compared to other societies/countries throughout the world. Women can not do it all based on what they have to work with here in America, there is very little support for women and children of all income levels (welfare/wic families are offered more support than any other income level in America and it should be equal for all women and children).
Treat women better and trust me there will be more children.
Cheers,
Stephanie
Maybe, you need to do a little more research. America has a much higher birth rate than any of the countries “across the pond”. Or our neighbor to the North, or our neighbor to the South. –all this despite the societal and governmental “support”.
You are a fucking NAZI, eugenecist piece of shit. Glenn H
Interesting to see that Godwin’s Law applies here as well.
You haven’t arrived on the Internet until someone calls you a Nazi.
Sadly, the Nazis experimented on living people, so calling someone who talks about people who choose (with no coersion) not to have kids displays an astonishing level of ignorance. Shame on you, Glenn. You know nothing about Nazis, and you make the lives of those of us who try to prevent future Nazi-style policies that much harder.
I heard the interview with Dennis Prager today (02/05/2013). I went to Amazon ready to order the Kindle edition. No Kindle Edition! At least, not yet. I now buy most of my books via Kindle. A little less expensive, but very portable. I can read it on my phone, all three of my computers, via the cloud and on my wife computer and iPad. I will be watching and hope it will be available soon. Fascinating book, especially the head of the Orthodox church in Georgia.
Hey john, i predict in the future, once the rest of the world had adopted the western style liberal democracy that highly values individual rights, that there will be a huge conflict between womens reproductive rights (the right to take birth control) and the survival of the human race. Should we take away womens rights?
…..In reality we have never put much effort into raising the fertility rate because we respect individual freedoms to highly. We have never utitilized the power of culture and coercion for such a purpose. Since culture is extremely powerful, i have not doubt we could easily raise the fertility rate.
Well maybe Glen is right. Direct statist intervention by the Nazi goverment with its Lebensborn program was sucessful and raised the german fertility rate.
I don’t see a problem. I see a problem with the opposite. At the rate we are growing, the U.S. will double in 90 years and the World population in 45 years. One can argue there is a difficult arranging for retirement but that is an economic problem not a problem of too few people. If you try to solve that problem with more breeding, you just end up with a bigger problem down the line.
I have not read this book, but I did read the review of it in the WSJ.
I must respectfully disagree that it is a problem that fertility is dropping- indeed, I hope the trend continues and spreads more widely among all the peoples of the earth. Most problems the earth and the current human population on earth are experiencing are exacerbated by the enormous number of humans on the earth. Traffic, air and water pollution, resource depletion, hunger, violence, war, etc. are all made worse by too many people. Yes, there will be a temporary period (40 years or so) when the needs of aging baby boomers will place strains on relatively fewer young people following them – but after then the earth’s human population can stabilize at a lower and more sustainable number.
Heard your program on WPR with Joy Cardin. Very interesting perspective. But counter to my current thoughts primarily due to the environmental issue. I believe increasing population might cause an even bigger environmental disaster. I would be interested in your perspective on some of the system dynamics models that have been developed on this subject. If you need references I would be happy to provide some. Thanks again for a thought provoking interview.
All this does is PROVE that the post I put a few weeks ago is TRUE. The GOVERNMENT is accomplishing what they have set out to accomplish. ALSO, I’m sure that the 50,000,000 babies murdered have contributed to this decline. ALSO, the plan of Sanger, a racist of the first order, who was given accolades for her plan to murder minority babies.
For anyone who needs PROOF that our government PLANNED(along with the United Nations) to REDUCE fertility and goodness KNOWS what else, here it is again. EDUCATE YOURSELVES!!!! THE LINK TO OUR GOVERNMENT’S DECLASSIFIED OFFICIALS DOCS IS LINKED BELOW THIS PARAGRAPH. “How about this, where our government works with the UN for population control….and people think Agenda 21 is nonsense….THIS document is FROM OUR OWN GOVERNMENT ARCHIVES…on our OWN government’s website….and THE PEOPLE STILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE… I QUOTE, “31. The World Population Plan of Action and the resolutions adopted by consensus by 137 nations at the August 1974 U.N. World Population Conference, though not ideal, provide an excellent framework for developing a worldwide system of population/ family planning programs. We should use them to generate U.N. agency and national leadership for an all-out effort to lower growth rates.” and “There is an alternative view which holds that a growing number of experts believe that the population situation is already more serious and less amenable to solution through voluntary measures than is generally accepted……A number of major actions in the area of creating conditions for fertility decline can be funded from resources available to the sectors in question (e.g., education, agriculture).” WHAT THE CRAP DOES THAT MEAN???? Check it out if you can’t believe our US government would WRITE/PLAN something like this….and it IS on our government website….it was DECLASSIFIED in 1989. Read it….there are LOTS more offensive things in there….wonder why these documents aren’t taught in schools?”
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PCAAB500.pdf
and how about this lovely statement, ” “It holds that, to prevent even more widespread food shortage and other demographic catastrophes than are generally anticipated, even stronger measures are required and SOME FUNDAMENTAL, VERY DIFFICULT MORAL ISSUES NEED TO BE ADDRESSED”. (emphasis mine)
Sorry, Sunny. I can’t hear you through your shouting.
Good writers don’t need to use all-caps to emphasize; good writers let the words speak for themselves.
Plus, when you, yourself, shout that you don’t know “what the crap” something means, why should anyone else take you seriously?
Oh, and learn how to use quotation marks. Please. I beg you.
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