Lyman Stone
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Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the ...
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Babies Matter So It's Pronatalism Or Bust • A response to critics who cannot spell correctly, probably because they dishonor Europe's noblest country, France, by assuming the wrong linguistic origins for pronatalism
Babies Matter So It's Pronatalism Or Bust
A response to critics who cannot spell correctly, probably because they dishonor Europe's noblest country, France, by assuming the wrong linguistic origins for pronatalism
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January 23, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Babies Matter So It's Pronatalism Or Bust • A response to critics who cannot spell correctly, probably because they dishonor Europe's noblest country, France, by assuming the wrong linguistic origins for pronatalism
Thou Shalt Not Lie • You Must Admit to Being Pronatalist
Thou Shalt Not Lie
You Must Admit to Being Pronatalist
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January 14, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Thou Shalt Not Lie • You Must Admit to Being Pronatalist
Who Escaped From Malthus? • Neither height nor income matters. It's density all the way down, baby.
Who Escaped From Malthus?
Neither height nor income matters. It's density all the way down, baby.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Who Escaped From Malthus? • Neither height nor income matters. It's density all the way down, baby.
Koreans Have Surprisingly Normal Gender Attitudes • And also Korean housework, Korean careers, Korean fertility, and solving Korean pronatalism, you're welcome, Korea
Koreans Have Surprisingly Normal Gender Attitudes
And also Korean housework, Korean careers, Korean fertility, and solving Korean pronatalism, you're welcome, Korea
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December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Koreans Have Surprisingly Normal Gender Attitudes • And also Korean housework, Korean careers, Korean fertility, and solving Korean pronatalism, you're welcome, Korea
What Do Lesbians Want? • The curious case of fertility statistics for same-sex partnered female households
What Do Lesbians Want?
The curious case of fertility statistics for same-sex partnered female households
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December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What Do Lesbians Want? • The curious case of fertility statistics for same-sex partnered female households
Egg Freezing When Young Isn't A Good Investment • The Math Doesn't Work
Egg Freezing When Young Isn't A Good Investment
The Math Doesn't Work
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December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Egg Freezing When Young Isn't A Good Investment • The Math Doesn't Work
Completed Family Size Will Soon Plummet to Unprecedented Depths • Contra Mike Konczal
Completed Family Size Will Soon Plummet to Unprecedented Depths
Contra Mike Konczal
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December 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Completed Family Size Will Soon Plummet to Unprecedented Depths • Contra Mike Konczal
IVF Doesn't Cause Cancer But It Also Causes Cancer • Controls, overcontrols, levels of analysis, and a response to Richard Hanania
IVF Doesn't Cause Cancer But It Also Causes Cancer
Controls, overcontrols, levels of analysis, and a response to Richard Hanania
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December 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
IVF Doesn't Cause Cancer But It Also Causes Cancer • Controls, overcontrols, levels of analysis, and a response to Richard Hanania
I Am A Master Debater • Notes on my absolutely smashing victories in two recent debates
I Am A Master Debater
Notes on my absolutely smashing victories in two recent debates
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December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I Am A Master Debater • Notes on my absolutely smashing victories in two recent debates
Debunking Elena Bridgers' Continued Errors • It's tiresome being this right
Debunking Elena Bridgers' Continued Errors
It's tiresome being this right
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November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Debunking Elena Bridgers' Continued Errors • It's tiresome being this right
Unfair Play • Bad boardgame design, biased task coverage, and a broken model of marriage
Unfair Play
Bad boardgame design, biased task coverage, and a broken model of marriage
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November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Unfair Play • Bad boardgame design, biased task coverage, and a broken model of marriage
Imperial Nudism Is Very Common • On Fatima, honesty, preference falsification, gender theory, and Martin Luther's Jesus
Imperial Nudism Is Very Common
On Fatima, honesty, preference falsification, gender theory, and Martin Luther's Jesus
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Imperial Nudism Is Very Common • On Fatima, honesty, preference falsification, gender theory, and Martin Luther's Jesus
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Cost • It's about marriage, that's literally the whole ballgame.
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Cost
It's about marriage, that's literally the whole ballgame.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Cost • It's about marriage, that's literally the whole ballgame.
Is Intensive Parenting Killing Fertility? • Maybe! But maybe not.
Is Intensive Parenting Killing Fertility?
Maybe! But maybe not.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Is Intensive Parenting Killing Fertility? • Maybe! But maybe not.
American Data Shows Shorter Birth Intervals Are Probably Fine • Plus: Americans Already Have !Kung Birth Intervals!
American Data Shows Shorter Birth Intervals Are Probably Fine
Plus: Americans Already Have !Kung Birth Intervals!
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
American Data Shows Shorter Birth Intervals Are Probably Fine • Plus: Americans Already Have !Kung Birth Intervals!
Short Interbirth Intervals Are Harmless • The causal evidence is clear: if you WANT to pack'em close, it will NOT hurt you
Short Interbirth Intervals Are Harmless
The causal evidence is clear: if you WANT to pack'em close, it will NOT hurt you
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Short Interbirth Intervals Are Harmless • The causal evidence is clear: if you WANT to pack'em close, it will NOT hurt you
Why I Am So Mean • Somebody has to clean up the riffraff in this joint.
Why I Am So Mean
Somebody has to clean up the riffraff in this joint.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Why I Am So Mean • Somebody has to clean up the riffraff in this joint.
It's Right-Wing to Love Your Family • Of course liberals love their families-- but loving your family isn't liberal.
It's Right-Wing to Love Your Family
Of course liberals love their families-- but loving your family isn't liberal.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It's Right-Wing to Love Your Family • Of course liberals love their families-- but loving your family isn't liberal.
There Is No Natural Parenting • Evolution has obliterated all models: parents are explorers in uncharted territory
There Is No Natural Parenting
Evolution has obliterated all models: parents are explorers in uncharted territory
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
There Is No Natural Parenting • Evolution has obliterated all models: parents are explorers in uncharted territory
Did Romans Have Blue Eyes? • Ancient DNA and the illusion of knowledge
Did Romans Have Blue Eyes?
Ancient DNA and the illusion of knowledge
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Did Romans Have Blue Eyes? • Ancient DNA and the illusion of knowledge
Was Baby Farming A Real Thing? • Yes but it was never very common
Was Baby Farming A Real Thing?
Yes but it was never very common
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Was Baby Farming A Real Thing? • Yes but it was never very common
Kentucky's Custody Law Did Not Reduce Divorce • I think it's a good law, and I really really wish it reduced divorce, but the evidence isn't there to support it, even as activists on both sides wish it was.
Kentucky's Custody Law Did Not Reduce Divorce
I think it's a good law, and I really really wish it reduced divorce, but the evidence isn't there to support it, even as activists on both sides wish it was.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Kentucky's Custody Law Did Not Reduce Divorce • I think it's a good law, and I really really wish it reduced divorce, but the evidence isn't there to support it, even as activists on both sides wish it was.
The Neolithic Revolution Was Awesome, Except For Cows • Farming didn't make people shorter, hunter-gatherers were not living great lives, and farming didn't cause an explosion of diseases. You can blame pastoralists for all of the bad things.
The Neolithic Revolution Was Awesome, Except For Cows
Farming didn't make people shorter, hunter-gatherers were not living great lives, and farming didn't cause an explosion of diseases. You can blame pastoralists for all of the bad things.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Neolithic Revolution Was Awesome, Except For Cows • Farming didn't make people shorter, hunter-gatherers were not living great lives, and farming didn't cause an explosion of diseases. You can blame pastoralists for all of the bad things.
Subsidizing IVF Is A Bad Idea • It's ineffective and discriminatory. Just make child allowances big enough to cover it.
Subsidizing IVF Is A Bad Idea
It's ineffective and discriminatory. Just make child allowances big enough to cover it.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Subsidizing IVF Is A Bad Idea • It's ineffective and discriminatory. Just make child allowances big enough to cover it.
Speculation: How Much Should Information Morally Matter? • A brief reply to Bentham
Speculation: How Much Should Information Morally Matter?
A brief reply to Bentham
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Speculation: How Much Should Information Morally Matter? • A brief reply to Bentham