Western man may be living through one of the strangest experiments in human history. He has more food, comfort, entertainment, technology, and material abundance than any generation before him, yet the biological foundations of reproduction appear to be moving in the opposite direction. Fertility is falling, sperm counts have declined dramatically, endocrine-disrupting chemicals are everywhere, marriage and family formation have weakened, and the societies that once produced generation after generation of their own citizens are increasingly looking elsewhere for the people they need to keep their economies functioning.
Perhaps it is time to consider the possibility that the West —
