Monthly Archives: May 2025

The total fertility rate in Seoul, South Korea, was recently 0.55. This gets attention, but close behind it, with TFRs <1.0, are Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. This means that, in each generation, the population would fall by about 72%. But, a woman doesn’t have 0.55 children. Here’s one example: To get aContinue reading “0.55”

I read this recently: Jack Reacher Won’t Ask Girls to Dance And since I homeschool, and since my son is 13, this has a certain immediate relevance. I’ve had a front-row seat to the social breakdown hitting our young people. You can see it in a lot of places, but one of the clearest examplesContinue reading “Proper Dancing”