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MODI'S NEW CHALLENGE IS URBANIZATION

6/9/2019

Modi’s New Challenge Is Embracing Urbanization
Reihan Salam, The Atlantic

When Narendra Modi led his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to an outright parliamentary majority in 2014—a feat no party had been able to achieve in the previous 25 years of Indian politics—the hopes and expectations for his first term were straightforward, if lofty. Modi promised to build a “new India” that would curb corruption, spur economic growth, and advance the interests of the growing “neo–middle class” of erstwhile villagers striving to reinvent themselves as consumers. Read more here...

SLAVE MARKETS & ISLAM

5/24/2019

Painting of Muslim Men Sexually Enslaving White Women Triggers Outrage
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
May 15, 2019
https://www.meforum.org/58519/painting-muslims-enslaving-white-women

Tommy Robinson: 'Our Free Speech and Our Rights Are Disappearing in the UK'
Middle East Forum Sentry Radio

AEI EXAMINES SOCIAL CAPITAL

5/23/2019

The story of stagnating wages was mostly wrong
Michael R. Strain | Bloomberg Opinion
The argument that wages have been stagnant for decades except for those at the very top, frequently echoed by politicians, pundits, and even some economists, is based on flawed and misleading measures of wage growth. Read more.

Capitalism is not broken
Robert Doar | The Guardian
Rumors of the death of mobility have been greatly exaggerated. Capitalism isn’t broken: It’s our best shot at keeping the American dream of freedom and success alive. Read more.

Gretzky's puck: A human capital strategy for the 21st century
Brent Orrell | Evolllution
Gretzky’s puck boils down to one simple rule: The future is unknowable. In light of this blurry reality, the best we can do is build up a strong and flexible workforce that can skate to where the puck is going and be able to pivot as economic conditions and technologies change. Read more.

Adam Smith and human resources: The moral challenges of modern society
Daniel B. Klein | American Enterprise Institute
Adam Smith helps the modern person with moral challenges, especially in work and employment. He inspires the individual to make a useful and satisfying place for himself in society by contributing. Read more.

The liberal sciences and the lost arts of learning
Brent Orrell | Law & Liberty
The St. John’s program is designed to create free adults and responsible citizens with the intellectual tools needed to think critically about all the questions that confront the individual and society — including the place, purpose, and limits of scientific knowledge in the midst of our rapidly accelerating technological revolution.

RACE, ISLAMIC POLYGAMY AND FAMILY STRUCTURE

5/13/2019

Race, family structure, and the child welfare system
Naomi Schaefer Riley | Institute for Family Studies

Germany: Citizenship for Polygamous Migrants?
by Soeren Kern

Faith, Family, and the Future of Europe

Birth rates are on the decline — and it’s a problem
Lyman Stone | AEI video

From the archives: The latest on the birth dearth in America
Karlyn Bowman and Joseph Kosten | AEIdeas

Understanding ‘Greedy’ Work
Kay Hymowitz, Institute for Family Studies

Fewer Kids Are Choosing College
Justin Fox, Bloomberg

Marriage facilitates responsible fatherhood
W. Bradford Wilcox | Institute for Family Studies

TRUTH TELLING, BIG ABORTION & SOUTH KOREA'S LOW BIRTH RATE

5/3/2019

EPPC

The Low Birth Rate Is South Korea's Greatest Strategic Threat
By Dr. Alon Levkowitz, May 1, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: South Korea faces security threats and economic challenges from competitors in Asia and around the world, but the greatest long-term threat to its national interest is the demographic challenge posed by the low birth rate. The failure of the South Korean government to increase the birth rate poses a serious long-term danger to Korea’s economy and security. The Israeli social and economic environment could offer a constructive example for policy reevaluation on this issue.
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ADAM SMITH AND HUMAN CAPTIAL

5/1/2019

Adam Smith and human resources: The moral challenges of modern society
Daniel B. Klein | American Enterprise Institute

Testimony: On the importance of social capital for public policymaking
Ryan Streeter | Joint Economic Committee
If we hope to continue to make progress in serving individuals and families who are on the outside of American prosperity staring in, we should pull a few pages from the 1990s playbook and make community relationships central again.

HOW SOCIALISM KILLS THE FAMILY & THE NEW CRITERION EXAMINES VICTORIAN MARRIAGES

4/17/2019

Family and individualism: A new view of the American dream
Samuel J. Abrams | AEIdeas
Americans truly value their individualism and their community life, and the post–Cold War conception that achieving the American dream is inextricably linked to wealth accumulation is erroneous.

“Marriage and morals among the Victorians,” by Gertrude Himmelfarb (November 1983).On the marriage and morality of Victorian-era London.

LARRY DIAMOND EXAMINES THE DEMOGRAPHIC DEFICIT THAT AILS THE WEST; BUT NOT AFRICA

3/19/2019

The Coming Demographic Disruptions
by Larry Diamond via The American Interest Immigration is now a demographic imperative. The United States, EU, and other industrialized countries must figure out a way to handle it before it’s too late.

ASIA TIMES

NEW INSIGHTS INTO POVERTY & AFFLUENCE GAP

2/28/2019

New Insights Into the Poverty and Affluence Gap
Kay Hymowitz, Institute for Family Studies

Racial and ethnic inequality remains one of the country’s most vexing social problems. It has always been true that whites are much less likely to be poor and more likely to be rich than blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians (Asians are a different story)—and it remains true today. For blacks, the gap has been particularly discouraging since it has been resistant to so many efforts to right it: civil rights laws, education reform, affirmative action, an arsenal of War on Poverty-style programs, and two terms of a relatively well-regarded black president. Read more here....

THE KEY TO A LONG & HAPPY LIFE

2/24/2019

The key to a long and happy life
Twenty20
As politicians and social leaders try to pinpoint the root cause of American woe, Tim Carney says they should start by looking at the closing churches — and the ones that are bustling.

FORBES EXAMINES GLOBAL POPULATION DECLINE & FRENCH MUSLIMS AND A MILITANT SECULAR STATE

2/24/2019

The French can provide a form of common life in which all, including their fellow Muslim citizens, can recognize themselves. Read More »

FORBES

French Muslims and the Secular State by Denis MacEoin

ALIENATED AMERIKA

2/20/2019

Why do so many people believe the American dream is no longer within reach? Growing inequality, stubborn pockets of immobility, rising rates of deadly addiction, the increasing and troubling fact that where you start determines where you end up, and heightening political strife — these are the disturbing realities threatening ordinary American lives today.

The standard account points to economic problems among the working class, but the root was a cultural collapse. While the educated and wealthy elites still enjoy strong communities, most blue-collar Americans lack strong institutions that bind them to their neighbors. And outside of the elites, the central American institution has been religion. That is, it is not the factory closings that have torn us apart; it is the church closings. The dissolution of our most cherished institutions — nuclear families, places of worship, and civic organizations — has not only divided us, but eroded our sense of worth, belief in opportunity, and connection to one another.

In Alienated America, Timothy P. Carney visits all corners of America, from the dim country bars of Southwestern Pennsylvania to the bustling Mormon wards of Salt Lake City, and examines the most important data and research to demonstrate how social connection is the great divide in America. He shows that Trump’s surprising victory was the most visible symptom of this deep-seated problem. In addition to his detailed exploration of how a range of societal changes have, in tandem, damaged us, Carney provides a framework that will lead us back out of a lonely, modern wilderness.

AEI VIDEO LONELINESS IN AMERICA

LONELINESS, INFANTICIDE & WEAK COMMUNITIES IN AMERICA

2/4/2019

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KAY S. HYMOWITZ
Alone
The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness.

Loneliness in America
Samuel J. Abrams and Ryan Streeter | AEI video

The American family today
Karlyn Bowman | Forbes

Infanticide and the left
Ramesh Ponnuru | National Review

The US is in a crisis of love
Arthur C. Brooks | The Washington Post
Evidence suggests that fewer Americans are taking risks for love. In an increasingly romance-less culture, we need more life entrepreneurs who are willing to put their hearts on the line.

When Concerns for Peripheries Eclipse Interest in the Sacred Other James Kalb
Modern ways of thinking lead people to moral views that are different from traditional ones, so it’s not surprising they consider themselves morally superior to people in the past. Whether current moral understandings are actually better is nonetheless dubious and deserves investigation. Modern thought wants to take fewer things into consideration but in a more […]

GATESTONE INSTITUTE COVERS FINLANDS GROOMING GANGS AGAINST GIRLS & CHILD MARRIAGES

1/30/2019

Finland's Grooming Gangs by David Brown

AN 8 YEAR OLD BRIDE: GATESTONE

CHINA'S DEMOGRAPHIC OUTLOOK

1/24/2019

China’s demographic outlook to 2040 and its implications: An overview
Nicholas Eberstadt | American Enterprise Institute
For any serious attempt to assess China’s future outlook, an examination of the country’s population prospects is not only advisable but also absolutely indispensable.

Nicholas Eberstadt on China’s demographic outlook
Spencer Moore, Matt Winesett, and Nicholas Eberstadt | "Banter"

From the archives: China’s aging population
Karlyn Bowman and Joseph Kosten | AEIdeas

EXAMINING RUSSIAN & CHINESE DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS

1/22/2019

China’s birth rate falls to lowest in 70 years
BY ASIA TIMES STAFF
Number of babies born falls by 2 million, despite relaxed population controls

New policies ‘can address demographic imbalance’
BY ASIA TIMES STAFF
China must implement both supply side and demand side measures, says official

China’s demographic outlook to 2040 and its implications: An overview
Nicholas Eberstadt
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KEY POINTS

We already have a fairly reliable picture of China’s population profile for the year 2040 because the overwhelming majority of people who will be living in China in 2040 are already alive and living there today.
China’s population is on track to peak in the coming decade and to decline at an accelerating tempo thereafter.
China is set to experience an extraordinarily rapid surge of population aging, with especially explosive population growth for the 65-plus group, even as its working-age population progressively shrinks.
These trends can only make for serious economic headwinds, presaging the end of China’s era of “heroic economic growth."

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CHINA ONE CHILD POLICY: THE IMACT OF IMPLOSION

1/17/2019

HOW WESTERN DEMOGRAPHY IMPACTS TRENDS IN WARFARE

1/8/2019

GAO Report Identifies Emerging Security Threats
From AUSA: ““DoD officials said that, with current demographic trends, Western liberal democratic institutions will be tested in new ways as the nature of warfare changes.””

GERMANY BANS CHILD MARRIAGE

12/23/2018

Germany: New Law Banning Child Marriage Declared Unconstitutional
by Soeren Kern •

PALESTINIANS & ARAB APARTHEIDE

12/21/2018

Palestinian Children: Victims of Arab Apartheid
by Khaled Abu Toameh • December 20, 2018 at 5:00 am

FERTILITY IN AMERICA

12/18/2018

Declining fertility in America
Lyman Stone | American Enterprise Institute
Birth rates in America are declining, which will likely have far-reaching negative economic consequences. Policymakers must confront the reality that all our long-term obligations will have to be financed with fewer people (or more immigrants) than most actuarial projections assume.

CHILD MARRIAGE IN INDIA & CHINESE FERTILITY EXAMINED

12/4/2018

BJP candidate promises to aid child marriage in Rajasthan
BY ASIA TIMES STAFF
A female candidate of the ruling party aims to make political gains out of an age-old exploitative practice

Fertility challenge: China’s demographic imbalances

MARRIAGE & THE WORKING CLASS

12/2/2018

Marriage and the working class
W. Bradford Wilcox | AEI video

THE HAN MASTERS STEALING MUSLIM CHILDREN FROM WESTERN CHINA

11/29/2018

CHANGING DEMOGRAPHY & RISING POLARIZATION: HOW TO RESTORE WORK TO THE WORKING CLASS

11/29/2018

Work, skills, and community: Restoring opportunity for the working class
Robert Doar, Ryan Streeter, and W. Bradford Wilcox | American Enterprise Institute, Opportunity America, and Brookings Institution

In a new bipartisan report, AEI scholars offer budget-neutral recommendations to restore opportunities for working-class communities amid changing demographics and rising polarization.