In my last essay I returned to the subject of the global fertility collapse, the unexpected and underappreciated trend that in my view confronts us with the permanent problem at its most devilish. What do I mean by that? Capitalism, by raising us into broad-based material prosperity, has provided us with sufficient resources and powers to allow the widespread development, exercise, and enjoyment of inborn capacities that would constitute mass human flourishing. We are thus confronted with wha...
