Americans had just 3.6 million babies last year, which is the lowest number since 1979 and, adjusted for population, represents the lowest birth rate on record.
That decline should be a matter of intense public concern. Attention naturally gravitates toward the immense and mostly negative fiscal, economic, and geopolitical implications. Even those consequences may pale beside the loss of vitality — very nearly a loss of literal vitality — for our civilization.
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