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Faux-Natalism

Housing, JD Vance, and why bashing childless people isn't being pro-family

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Addison Del Mastro
Aug 12, 2024
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I have a new piece in Discourse Magazine, on JD Vance and pronatalism and the whole cat-lady thing. And housing. Of course, housing. Because, as I put it in the piece (long quote up front this time):

Making housing more accessible would address the issues of fertility and family formation from an angle rather than head on—not by talking about them or tre…

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