Lyman Stone
Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and a PhD candidate at McGill University.
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The Mathematical Insanity of the Build Now Act
Congress has been debating a housing bill for a while. The bill has a lot of good stuff in it, such as an incredibly long-overdue fix to regulations for manufactured housing.
But it has within it a paradigmatic example of how the cognitive...
Do Young People Suck?
Marriage rates are declining, and this is a key part of why fertility is declining.
But why are marriage rates declining? Many people have theories. One theory you often here is “Because the other sex sucks.” The men are all porn-addled, t...
The Upshot Is Wrong: Completed Fertility Is Not Stable
This is a sponsored post paid for by fury at the stupidity of the internet. You’re welcome.
The NYT Upshot data blog wrote this over the weekend:
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Fertility News This Month: March-April 2026
What’s the news been this month?
What’s the news been this month? We got some good stuff!There’s cool stuff behind the paywall. I pinky promise.
Has Homicide Actually Fallen?
The true history of American murder
Recently Scott Alexander had a piece about why it seems many people feel crime is going up when in fact crime is not going up. I didn’t love the piece because I think crime perceptions are a lot trickier...
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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 Institute for Family Studies, and a PhD candidate at McGill University.
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