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The papers collected in this volume recount a 40-year struggle between scholarship and illusion on matters of great importance. They do much more than that: They present a matchless course of instr...
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The papers collected in this volume recount a 40-year struggle between scholarship and illusion on matters of great importance. They do much more than that: They present a matchless course of instruction in the demographics of poverty and prosperity, hardship and health, and progress and decline, and they paint a vivid, pointillist portrait of the circumstances of modern humanity. Nick Eberstadt, armed only with data and patient study, debunks Al Gore, Jared Diamond, and Planned Parenthood on population growth and population control; then demolishes a phalanx of ideologues on world hunger and famine; then shreds Jeffrey Sachs and UN officialdom on economic growth and international aid programs. And then he dares all of us to confront humanitarian catastrophes that many prefer to ignore, such as enforced immiserization in North Korea and the now-extensive global practice of selective abortion of females.
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Pages: 398
Publisher: AEI Press
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Publication Date: 18 August 2026
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ISBN: 9780844750125
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Foreword by Christopher DeMuth


I. Population and Policy 

1. “Population Change and National Security,” Foreign Affairs,Summer 1991

2. “Too Many People?,” International Policy Network, July 11, 2007

3. “The Demographic Future,” Foreign Affairs, November/December 2010

4. “The Human Population Unbound,” Current History, January 2014


II. The Politics of Hunger 

5. “Hunger and Ideology,” Commentary, July 1981

6. “Famine, Development, and Foreign Aid,” Commentary, March 1985

7. “Starved for Ideas,” World Food Summit in Rome, November 15, 1996


III. Demographic Destinies

8. “Mortality and the Fate of Communist States,” Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems, 2000

9. “Growing Old the Hard Way: China, Russia, India,” Policy Review, May 2006

10. “Hastening Korean Reunification,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 1997


IV. Human Imperatives 

11. “The Global Poverty Paradox,” Commentary, October 2010

12. “Haiti in Extremis,” The Weekly Standard, October 9, 2006

13. “The Global War Against Baby Girls,” The New Atlantis, January 12, 2012

14. “Bring Them Home,” The Weekly Standard, June 6, 2005


V. O My America 

15. “America’s Infant Mortality Puzzle,” The Public Interest, Fall 1991

16. “The Mismeasure of Poverty,” Policy Review, August/September 2006

17. “Demographic Exceptionalism in the United States: Tendencies

and Implications,” Agir, 2007

18. “American Exceptionalism and the Entitlement State,” National Affairs, January 5, 2015


Afterword by Arthur C. Brooks

Index

Acknowledgements

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