Honored to see my essay on the rebirth of Boston's Mystic River in @longnow's annual journal, Pace Layers. I argue that the multi-generational work of restoring a polluted waterway should be celebrated like the medieval enterprise of building a gothic cathedral. @MysticMyRWA
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⌚️Jueves 30 de octubre, de 10 a 11:30
💡 Con Yanina Budkin @yaninab (Banco Mundial) y Paul Constance @presentbias (Sociopúblico)
🎙️Modera Sonia Jalfin @soniajalfin (Sociopúblico)
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"Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want." @madeleinekearns in https://t.co/Q8kZZ4O7rR
@madeleinekearns “Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want." https://t.co/Q8kZZ4O7rR
@madeleinekearns "Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want.
https://t.co/Q8kZZ4OFhp
@madeleinekearns "Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want. https://t.co/Q8kZZ4OFhp
@madeleinekearns: "Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want. " https://t.co/Q8kZZ4OFhp
I recommend this darkly funny report on American pro-natalists by @barclaybram of The Economist. I'm glad my use of the word "abhorrent" made it into the piece, along with my plea to fellow progressives who are reluctant to acknowledge this issue. https://t.co/PU80obZhN2
Many thanks to CNN's @meenasaurus for making me sound like a sane liberal in this report on NatalCon. Definitely a strange event, but it convinced me that progressives need better ideas for enabling people to form families and have children.
No, they didn't charge $10,000 and have on-the-spot weddings, as some reports suggest.
But NatalCon 2025 had plenty of excitement.
Our report from inside the Elon-adjacent conference focused on boosting the birth rate is up on @CNN -- and it's a fun one: https://t.co/weaoWR1GKx
Very pleased that my essay, “The Heresy of Decline,” is included in the inaugural edition of Pace Layers, a new annual print journal from the Long Now Foundation @longnow. Congratulations to its editor, @ahmedkabil. Learn more and order a copy here:
https://t.co/nxcmqoGiU4
Today in @nytimes@rachelcwiseman and I on why in letting conservative policies and theatrics alienate us from the question of children, we’re only letting the right set our reproductive agendas for us in yet another way.
https://t.co/69Mdz1vQCV
Professional news: @FamStudies is launching a new Pronatalism Initiative with me at the helm. The project is initially supported by an Emergent Ventures grant (ht @tylercowen ). We're the first and only explicitly pronatal policy shop.
https://t.co/bxZQ01mIPb
@CRPakaluk It’s a lovely ad, but Argentines don’t seem to share its sentiments. Fertility there has fallen more in the last six years than in the last six decades. https://t.co/zE6lfPHPU0