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Jonathan V. Last

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Jonathan V. Last is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard in Washington. His writings have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Post, The Claremont Review of Books, First Things, The Week, Salon, Slate, TV Guide, and elsewhere.

He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.

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	What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster 3.83 avg rating — 710 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life is Funny as Hell 3.69 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dadly Virtues: Adventures from the Worst Job You'll Ever Love by Jonathan V. Last (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Burge (Contributor), Christopher Caldwell (Contributor) 3.73 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Christmas Virtues: A Treasury of Conservative Tales for the Holidays by Jonathan V. Last (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rob Long (Contributor), P.J. O'Rourke (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Casual Reader by William Kristol, Andrew Ferguson, Jonathan V. Last (Goodreads Author) 2.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conservative Christmas Quotables by Jonathan V. Last (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Rob Long (Contributor), P.J. O'Rourke (Contributor) 1.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published

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“To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to have children if they weren't so damned important.”
― Jonathan V. Last, What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster

tags: children, family, fertility

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“The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most readily – while the classical virtues form an organizing framework for our inner selves… for our souls.”
― Jonathan V. Last

tags: character, ethics, virtue, worldview

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“when fertility rates began collapsing in the late 1960s, another demographic transition was occurring, the result of a fundamental restructuring: People no longer put children at the center of their lives. Instead, they put themselves there.”
― Jonathan V. Last

tags: selfishness

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