Is America Destined for a Future Without Children?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
February 26, 202538m 52s
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Show Notes
The staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss why people around the world are having fewer and fewer children and how the issue of birth rates has become a rallying cry for the American right. Plus, the lack of political will on the left to contend with the issue; and the societal effects on South Korea, which has the lowest birth rates in the world.
This week’s reading:
- “The End of Children,” by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
- The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan,” by Jonathan Blitzer
- “The New Trump-Family Megaphone,” by Jon Allsop
- “Month One of Donald Trump’s “Golden Age,” by Antonia Hitchens
- “Team Canada’s Revenge, Served Ice-Cold,” by Louisa Thomas
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