The reasons for not having children are dominated by expressions of individual preference against childrearing -- not liking children, not wanting children, or wanting other things in life more.
Which jobs make a meaningful contribution to the world?
Together maybe we can suss out the bullshit. Your vote counts.
There is a tsunami of fake social science research coming for us, and the American Sociological Association doesn’t care
There are so many red flags that this system is sending up, crying out for the scholarly research enterprise to defend itself. Sadly, reader, that does not appear to be happening.
Factcheck: Conservatives want children, Democrats want sexual deviance
Women enter the labor force, they have fewer children, those children get more education, and the economy benefits. It's not perfect, but if you're going to have capitalism it's better than the alternative.
I was on Emily Oster’s podcast about marriage and didn’t even know it
Well, I knew I did the interview, on March 7, 2024. I just didn't know that they posted the episode six months later, in October 2024.
Now in The Conversation: ‘Expertise’ shouldn’t be a bad word – expert consensus guides science and society
A growing distrust of expertise is reshaping the terrain of science in the United States.
Inflaming population decline with math (generations bonus edition)
When reasonable math grossly distorts social life.
Comment on After the Spike at UCLA event
Me responding to a talk by Michael Geruso about his book with Dean Spears, After the Spike.
Down the hatch, 2025
How did I end up in this situation? The year in output.
Year end book roundup
I recommend most of the 29 books I read this year. Give books as gifts!
Family Inequality 
