China

For the Record…

“A pro-family organization has done extensive research into birthrates around the world and has concluded that if the Western world wants to survive, it better start having more children. The Population Research institute (PRI) says virtually every Western or Westernized nation on the planet is

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For the Record…

“Human Events writer and Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute Joseph A. D’Agostino calls the UNFPA blitz in Mongolia, which has a dramatically falling birthrate, now at only 2.3 children per woman, as a ‘kinder, gentler genocide,’ comparing it to the one-child

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Motherless Russia

“In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments,” wrote Chekhov in a letter to a friend. Now, Russia suffers from a destructive poverty of a sort that she has not in

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The Many Faces of China’s Enigmatic President

Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era by Willy Wo-lap Lam (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007), 359 pp., $29.95 Reviewed by Steven W. Mosher “Who is the President of China?” the late-night talk show hosts joked with their audiences when a Communist cadre by the

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Fighting for Life In Taiwan

Father Louis Aldrich, S.J. directs the Human Life Ethics Research center in Taiwan. The center is located on the campus of Fu-Jen Catholic University near the capital, Taipei. PRI President Steven Mosher was recently in Taiwan to film a segment of his EWTN series, and

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Global Monitor

More Sex Ed or Abstinence Promotion for British Schoolchildren A recent report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), Britain’s leading progressive think tank, says that schoolchildren in England as young as 10 years of age should be instructed in use of contraceptives. Why?

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Political Correctness, Paradox and Silence

When the London terrorist bombings occurred in July 2005, Jack Cashill, author of a penetrating analysis into the radical politicization of Western elites entitled Hoodwinked (Nelson, 2005), made a public bet. He stated that he would personally buy the uncut version of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit

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A Cut for Population Control Money?

Volume 8 / Number 39 Dear Colleague: There is a chance that U.S. funding for international population control could go down, since that is the Bush Administration’s wish. Steven W. Mosher President A Cut for Population Control Money? Official federal spending on overseas ‘population assistance,’

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Three Hundred Million and Counting

September 8, 2006 Volume 8, Number 35  Dear Colleague: Americans should celebrate their coming 300 millionth fellow resident. But many wrong-headed commentators will be complaining. Steven W. Mosher President Three Hundred Million and Counting Sometime next month, the U.S. Census Bureau will announce that the population

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For the Record…

“A pro-family organization has done extensive research into birthrates around the world and has concluded that if the Western world wants to survive, it better

Read More »

For the Record…

“Human Events writer and Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute Joseph A. D’Agostino calls the UNFPA blitz in Mongolia, which has a

Read More »

Motherless Russia

“In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments,” wrote Chekhov in

Read More »

Fighting for Life In Taiwan

Father Louis Aldrich, S.J. directs the Human Life Ethics Research center in Taiwan. The center is located on the campus of Fu-Jen Catholic University near

Read More »

Global Monitor

More Sex Ed or Abstinence Promotion for British Schoolchildren A recent report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), Britain’s leading progressive think tank,

Read More »

Three Hundred Million and Counting

September 8, 2006 Volume 8, Number 35  Dear Colleague: Americans should celebrate their coming 300 millionth fellow resident. But many wrong-headed commentators will be complaining. Steven

Read More »