Louis T. March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Eastern Europe's bottomless pit of perdition, where human beings are cannon fodder, is putting up a brave front. That is today's Ukraine. People still go to work and do their best to provide for themselves amidst the chaos. A weakened and corrupted government, financed by American taxpayers, still functions.
Date posted: 2024-11-15
Africa's mystique endures. Well-meaning though misguided Westerners tend to assess all peoples by the same metrics they apply to themselves. Africa is a prime example. Perhaps a little less ethnocentrism and a bit more realism are in order, especially as the "Dark Continent" is at last joining the modern world in at least one respect: falling fertility.
Date posted: 2024-11-04
Awareness of falling fertility and demographic collapse is growing, even among the chattering class. What is the cause? Economics is certainly a factor, but the root cause is humanity's crisis of confidence stemming from secularism, "a way of life and thinking that rejects religion."
Date posted: 2024-08-31
Fifty years ago, Flint, Michigan was a thriving manufacturing hub of 200,000 people. Then known as "Vehicle City", there were 80,000 auto industry jobs. Today, Flint has less than 80,000 residents. It is the poorest city in the state.
Date posted: 2024-08-17
In our corrupt epoch, the rise of secular humanism has fostered a post-Christian ethos. This sad state of affairs manifests in the monetization of everything, including life itself. Thus endless wars-for-profit, cheap labour immigration and the anti-life "healthcare" industry thrive. Temporal ambition and material priorities steamroll all else. Moral relativism imbues government policy, education and popular culture. This fuels victimology, cancel culture and embittered anti-white racism.
Date posted: 2024-07-30
Today's West is a world of social dysfunction and demographic collapse, with warmongers and woke commissars in charge. Where moral relativism rules, those of us abiding by traditional values are cultural warriors by default. Our very lifestyle is an expression of dissent. The regime, steeped in secular globalism, frowns upon us. How dare we value family over enlightened, empirical economic man!
Date posted: 2024-07-13
Have the courage to have children despite climate change and wars, Pope Francis says: The pontiff asks nations to help women juggle motherhood and work, create job security for young people and help couples buy homes.
Date posted: 2024-06-22
Every month, we are reducing the perceived risk of abolishing DEI departments. By the end of the year, most red states will have abolished DEI in their public universities. Then we will move on to the next campaign.
Date posted: 2024-06-05
If there is a silver lining to the East Asian population implosion, it is that governments are now motivated to do something about it.
Date posted: 2024-05-28
Today a more vibrant, forward-looking strain of feminism is emerging, exquisitely captured in the brand new book, Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth, which is highly recommended by pro-family advocates.
Date posted: 2024-05-19
It's been a year since war broke out in Sudan. Sadly, it doesn't look like it will end any time soon. It has festered largely outside the world's eye, overshadowed by the more famous conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine.
Date posted: 2024-05-06
One of the hallmarks of American exceptionalism, sad to say, is the US leads the world for children reared in single-parent households. For that dubious distinction we can in part thank President Lyndon Johnson. He turned loose a pack of "pointy-head college professors who can't even park a bicycle straight" (per Gov. George Wallace) who had a field day experimenting on America's downtrodden. Seems those 'best and brightest' didn't have a clue about welfare dependency
Date posted: 2024-04-19
First off, it's that time of year: 2023 population data are pouring in. A surfeit of statistics surfaces somewhere every week. Nirvana for demography nerds! Parsing numbers is boring, but some startling stats merit mention. South Korea, with the world's lowest fertility rate (0.78), broke its own record at 0.72. In Japan births fell 5.1 percent, marriages almost 6 percent. Seems Europe has more fifty-plus folks than preschoolers.
Date posted: 2024-03-09
It's cold here in the Shenandoah Valley. But holed up at home in the heat, there is ample opportunity for some serious demography reading. The most compelling piece I've stumbled across is Prof. Darel E. Paul's "The Failure of Feminist Natalism". While the title is distinctly non-PC, it is not anti-feminist in the least. Rather, it reveals the sad truth about an unmitigated failure of social policies intended to boost family formation.
Date posted: 2024-03-07
We're talking about China again. Why? Because when China sneezes, much of the world catches a cold. Ready or not, that is today's multipolar reality. China matters - big time. The Wall Street Journal rang in the New Year with a report about Chinese women that cries out for comment: "China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No".
Date posted: 2024-02-17
Study after study has global population peaking in the second half of the century, followed by precipitous decrease. World fertility rates have declined over 50 percent in the last 50 years. Sperm counts have experienced a comparable decline.
Date posted: 2024-01-22
Fearmongering abounds about climate change. Doomsayers predict an environmental apocalypse. Exactly when and how this will unfold is "unclear" (media-speak for don't know). Back in 2021, the UN issued an environmental "code red for humanity". Climate change angst has fueled an anti-natalist movement to "save the planet" by not having children. Extreme? What else is new?
Date posted: 2023-12-16
It is fascinating to observe a species that is conscious of its impending extinction but also trying to prevent it. Are human beings the only ones capable of self-consciousness? Are radical individualism, hubris and egomania found in other creatures of kingdom Animalia?
Date posted: 2023-09-19
China is in big trouble. Now before any of you Sinophobes start high-fiving about this, just remember that China is not alone. The US and Russia, among others, are also in trouble, but that's beyond the scope of today's titillating treatise.
Date posted: 2023-09-01
Today, those top ten countries are South Korea, Brazil, Colombia, China, Thailand, Iran, Myanmar, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Only China and South Korea are of the Global North. Both are rapidly ageing societies with decreasing populations. South Korea has the dubious distinction of the world's lowest fertility rate (0.77), and as far as we can tell, China's is almost as bad (1.1).
Date posted: 2023-07-29
There's been a lot of chatter lately about cultural Marxism, aka political correctness (PC) or wokeism. It is a strident creed, quite divisive and fueling the anything-goes promiscuity that preaches "tolerance" for just about anything except disagreement with wokeism, which is deemed "hateful" or "not inclusive." It is eroding both the family and society.
Date posted: 2023-07-13
Demography and geopolitics are constant companions.
Date posted: 2023-06-08
The government is doing its best to reverse the nation's population decline.
Date posted: 2023-06-03
Are those deadly Mediterranean shipwrecks a harbinger of things to come?
Date posted: 2023-05-19
The Earth4All's "Great Leap" scenario is as utopian as it gets.
Date posted: 2023-05-01
President Putin is responding with a huge array of benefits for families which have more children.
Date posted: 2023-04-05
Demography nerds are aghast. South Korea just broke its own grim record, reporting the world's lowest fertility rate at 0.78 children per woman. An unprecedented birth dearth.
Date posted: 2023-03-25
But the question arises: will fewer "fighting age" people lead to an outbreak of peace? Don't bet on it. There were far fewer people around in previous centuries, and war continued unabated. However, those folks were much more prolific, vigorous and hardier populations with young'uns to spare.
Date posted: 2023-03-22
We could learn something from the Faroe Islands.
Date posted: 2023-02-07
Serious pro-family initiatives are underway.
Date posted: 2023-01-28
A Universal Basic Income is unlikely to solve our demographic woes.
Date posted: 2023-01-28
A survey of 57,000 undergraduates from 159 of America's "top universities" reveals a lack of viewpoint diversity.
Date posted: 2022-12-03
Of all behaviors affecting the rise and fall of populations, warfare is the most catastrophic.
Date posted: 2022-12-03
A demographic targeted for destruction?
Date posted: 2022-11-08
Who on earth possesses the unmitigated insolence to publicly assert a Christian, Italian and family identity?
Date posted: 2022-10-10
Where demography is on the front burner.
Date posted: 2022-10-08
Do we have a choice? "For the first time in world history, there are now more living human beings above the age of 65 than below the age of 5."
Date posted: 2022-09-19
Whatever happened to "In God We Trust?"
Date posted: 2022-09-13
The rulers of the world's biggest country are running scared.
Date posted: 2022-09-04
The world's largest country could be running out of people.
Date posted: 2022-08-19
"World fertility continues an unprecedented long-term decline with no end in sight. Even in high-fertility sub-Saharan Africa, rates are remarkably declining.
Date posted: 2022-08-19
Should we be celebrating or mourning?
Date posted: 2022-08-02
The decline in faith has precipitated a drop in procreation.
Date posted: 2022-07-05
The Middle Kingdom's demographic diminution.
Date posted: 2022-07-05
Can money make a difference?
Date posted: 2022-07-05
There is startling news from Washington about American fertility. US fertility is up slightly - so is abortion.
Date posted: 2022-06-22
Elon's Lament: a warning from the world's wealthiest guy.
Date posted: 2022-05-20
Time to turn away from materialism and imperialism.
Date posted: 2022-04-26
It is really true that a lot of us wish that we had never been born?
Date posted: 2022-04-25
There is startling news from Syria. The country's northwest, which includes the Idlib governorate and the western countryside areas of Aleppo and Hama, had a baby boom in 2021.
Date posted: 2022-04-20
On their way to oblivion. They are hardly having children, and their numbers are starting to drop like a stone.
Date posted: 2022-04-11
What is not dominating the news. Tired of hearing about Ukraine? Thought so. But if you follow demography, Ukraine is an interesting case, though a real basket case. Yours truly just has to weigh in.
Date posted: 2022-04-11
Americans need to prioritize the future by thrift and hard work.
Date posted: 2022-03-08
Fertility, religion, and politics: a combustible combination.
Date posted: 2022-02-17
Scandinavian sketches - signs of life among the Nordics.
Date posted: 2022-01-12
A Hungarian miracle in the making? Time will tell.
Date posted: 2022-01-12
Population and politics in South Asia to which we should pay attention.
Date posted: 2021-12-27
Childlessness is becoming a lifestyle choice.
Date posted: 2021-12-11
Young ladies at Cambridge are to be given an academic heart-to-heart about having children and raising a family.
Date posted: 2021-11-03
Every day brings horror stories of racial discrimination and racial preferences.
Date posted: 2021-10-10
Is this an initiative that other countries could imitate?
Date posted: 2021-08-03
A proposal in India that would penalize families with more than two children has upset a lot of people.
Date posted: 2021-08-02
Today's big three - US, China and Russia - and the power dynamic among them will change significantly in the coming years. With reduced populations, fiscal constraints, and the Thucydides Trap's ever-present specter of war, there is no telling what may unfold.
Date posted: 2021-07-18
In an attempt to reverse the consequences of its disastrous one-child policy, the Chinese Communist Party now has a three-child policy.
Date posted: 2021-06-22
In demographic circles, all eyes are on Hungary, which now has the most robust pro-family agenda on the planet. It gets better all the time. The latest news is that, starting January 1, 2022, there will be no income tax for those under 25. So there is something more important than fattening the state's coffers!
Date posted: 2021-06-04
Population decline is coming to America. Radical change is on the way.
Date posted: 2021-06-04
America's heritage of fiscal profligacy has met its match in below-replacement fertility.
Date posted: 2021-05-05
Personal finances, lack of religious faith and no confidence in the future are often cited as reasons for not having children. But not reproducing for purposes of individual comfort or convenience or ideological commitment pits personal preference against the survival of the species. It is that simple, and a choice must be made.
Date posted: 2021-05-03