The author is a writer for the center-right magazine “Weekly Standard.”
He's been promoting his new book for several months.
Frankly, I don't understand his basic thesis.
On one hand, he claims a country can't prosper unless its population is constantly growing.
Then, he claims that people won't immigrate to America if the birth rate falls below 2.0 in their native country.
That makes no sense - if the economy is floundering in someone’s low birth rate native country, wouldn't they be MORE likely to flee a sinking ship and come to the USA?
There is also the insane logical extreme of continuous population growth.
America grows about 1% per year.
In 72 years our population will be 630 million.
72 years after that it will be 1.26 billion!
Does the author really want that?
In my opinion, Jonathan Last has always been an Open Border/Amnesty guy.
I think he tries to camouflage his policy goal with a lot of demography stats.
Oh, that's why there are no Russians, Ukrainians, or Poles on my street! Oh, wait a minute ...
My anecdotal sample suggests that getting out of their home country makes Eastern Europeans more likely to have children. All the families I know are larger than average, and the Ukrainian Evangelicals are the only people in the neighborhood with as many children as my family. Perhaps what native-born Americans consider "way too poor to have children" looks really good, compared to Ukraine.