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Who is responsible for the decline in family-formation in the U.S. and the rest of the West?


A few months ago, we presented George Gilder’s 1973 “Sexual Suicide” essay here at Hail To You. The essay was the forerunner of a hit book of the same name (Sexual Suicide). From it we get a snapshot of the … Continue reading

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George Gilder’s essay “Sexual Suicide” (1973), a landmark attack on feminism and warning for the future, revisited and reappraised at its 50-year mark


In July 1973, an explosive anti-feminist, anti-sexual-revolution essay titled “Sexual Suicide” appeared on the scene. Viewed from fifty years later, “Sexual Suicide” is incisive and prescient in all kinds of ways. “Sexual Suicide” first appeared fifty years ago this week … Continue reading

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A study on America’s demographic-national crisis — Early-2020s birth-data by race; and developments in the White birth-share in the USA, 1920s to 2020s


The USA’s ongoing demographic-national crisis: slow but steadily moving, largely downplayed by the system that oversees and manages it, and therefore more “beneath the waves of public-consciousness” than not. What do we call a “crisis” that is seldom talked about … Continue reading

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[Whites’ Views on Obama] By Marital Status and Children


Whites are mostly negative about Obama, as consistently only around 30% approve of him (despite the Nobel Peace Prize). This 30% figure is far from the whole story. Wide differences in outlook on Obama within the White population are worth … Continue reading

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Newt Gingrich’s Ancestors: Apple Falls Close to Tree Again


A man with a disgraceful history of loose sexual morals and lack of discipline, it turns out, is descended from people with loose sexual morals and lacks of discipline. Newt Gingrich (Birth name Newton Leroy McPherson). Born Harrisburg PA, June … Continue reading

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Share of births to unmarried mothers, by race, 1990-2010


On social change in the 1990s and 2000s: Questions 1.) What is driving the growth in unmarried motherhood among Whites and Hispanics? 2.) Implications of a rising White unmarried-motherhood rate: Births to unmarried white mothers went from 1-in-6 births in … Continue reading

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Senegal: Polygamy causes 1-in-5 young men to lack a wife


Imagine a society with 4 single young females for every 5 single young males. Senegal is such a place. Its marriage market is akin to a pyramid scheme, with older men taking younger wives, depriving lots of young men from … Continue reading

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