Elizabeth Bruenig, a successful married mother of two, covered the Natal Conference in Austin, Texas for the Atlantic last month, which, she correctly notes, was largely devoid of voices from the left.
“Liberals seem almost uniformly unwilling to address the subject of population decline whatsoever,” Bruenig writes, “a stance that warrants reconsideration.”
Liberal unwillingness to address population decline is not quite as uniform as Bruenig suggests, a topic we will return to shortly, but Bruenig does offer two explanations for why liberals don’t like to talk about the subject, both of which contain some truth.
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First, Bruenig claims that some Democrats believe that any acknowledgment that having children is good “requires conceding that not having children is bad.” Second, Bruenig argues that worrying about birth rates
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