Demographics


Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-first Century
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America
The Population Bomb
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy—What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)
Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiHumankind by Brad AronsonThis Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Calls to Action
112 books — 80 voters
Black Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyWhen the Hood Comes Off by Rob EschmannThe Struggle for the People’s King by Hajar YazdihaA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnJust Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Understanding America
140 books — 32 voters

White Fragility by Robin DiAngeloHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiHow To Stop Being A Racist and Encourage Someone Else To by Ray MathisHow to Argue With a Racist by Adam RutherfordThe Clapback by Elijah Lawal
Third Position Books
94 books — 8 voters
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings by Karl MarxThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiThe Will to Power by Friedrich NietzscheThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Third Position
149 books — 13 voters

As soon as the constraints of traditional society fell away, the Athenians stopped raising children.
Daniel P. Goldman

The relationship between fertility and intelligence has been investigated in many demographic studies. There is evidence that, on a population level, intelligence is negatively correlated with fertility rate and positively correlated with survival rate of offspring.[1] The combined net effect of these two conflicting forces on ultimate population intelligence is not well studied and is unclear. It is theorized that if an inverse correlation of IQ with fertility rate were stronger than the correl ...more
Wikipedia: Fertility and Intelligence

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