The critical determinant of actual fertility levels in Muslim and non-Muslim societies alike at the end of the day would appear to be attitudinal and volitional, rather than material and mechanistic.

There remains a widely perceived notion—still commonly held within intellectual, academic, and policy circles in the West and elsewhere—that ―Muslim societies are especially resistant to embarking upon the path of demographic and familial change. But such notions speak to a bygone era

Everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows Muslim societies are almost uniquely immune to the forces that have been driving down fertility rates on every continent for decades. But everybody, it seems, fell asleep before the final act.

Brad Wilcox and Kathryn Sharpe of the University of Virginia have taken a fascinating fresh look at sectors of the economy most influenced by marriage and fertility.

Are subreplacement fertility and the ongoing Western "flight from marriage" bad for business? Please join us as we host a panel to explore the interaction between birth rates, marriage and economic growth.

Liberal politics will prove fruitless as long as liberals refuse to multiply.

Liberal politics will prove fruitless as long as liberals refuse to multiply.

Population did not boom because people suddenly started breeding like rabbits, but rather because they finally stopped dying like flies: the "population explosion" was in reality a "health explosion," with improvements in longevity driving the entirety of this increase in human numbers.