Ari’s post about Philip Longman’s book, The Empty Cradle, reminded me that Dr J’s Bookshelf has several titles on Demographic Decline. My little collection proves Ari’s point: concern about demographic decline is not the exclusive province of the Left. including Longman’s book. Longman is at the New America Foundation and Schwartz Senior Fellow at the Washington Monthly. His latest book is called, The Next Progressive Era.
Around the same time, Economists Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, associated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, published a book called The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future
You may also be interested in Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future, by Ben Wattenberg, who is a conservative and afiliated with the American Enterprise Institute.
Bottom line: Demographic Decline is hardly the exclusive concern of rapid right-wingers. Everyone should be concerned, or at least interested enough to take the arguments seriously. This silly charge of racism discredits the person making the charge as a person uninterested in serious debate, who can only dodge the issue rather than confronting it.
