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Breeding Scares Liberals

But in the liberal mind, to concentrate on the fertility of any one group is to flirt with Nuremberg laws. ~Christopher Hitchens

And in the neocon mind, which is the liberal mind on meth, to focus on the fertility of your own people with natalist policies is to prove your fascism.  Furthermore, it is almost axiomatic in most fascism scholarship that Italian and German pro-natal policies in the interwar period are proof of fascism’s “regressive” and “reactionary” character (because there is the underlying assumption that progressive, civilised, liberal people are not interested in policies aimed at increasing their population).  All of these views are, to put it mildly, very wrong.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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