The Depleting Platoons

Jim Geraghty writes about the declining number of births to Americans last year and the knock-on effects of this. He alludes to an issue that has preoccupied me for the last decade when he writes about how having children is the occasion upon which adults expand their long-term thinking. Jim writes:

I think my generational radicalism is down to the fact that for me the numbers themselves suggest we are “burning it all down” presently.