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August 8, 2025
August 8, 2025

•Episode length: 53m

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Cradle of Civilization

Episode length: 53m

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In less than eighty years, the US has slipped from its baby boom heyday to a baby bust. Timothy Carney, author of Alientated America and Family Unfriendly, joins the Ricochet Podcast to discuss the implications and potential consequences of the nation's waning will to procreate.

Steve, Charles, and James gab about the fuss over gerrymandering, appraise Trump's warning to DC leadership, and consider the predicament before Israel as they plan to occupy Gaza City.

- Sound from this week's opening: Jim Acosta interviews an AI version of deceased Parkland shooting victim.

Hosts:
•Charles C. W. Cooke•James Lileks•Steve Hayward

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    davidbatig@davidbatig·1y

    This is anecdotal, but I work with a young man who seems completely uninterested in women. If he was gay, I might get a feel for his passions, but he seems to be uninterested altogether.

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    kedavis@kedavis·1y

    Mark Steyn addressed this almost 20 years ago, in his book "America Alone" and in The Best Interview Of Anyone, Ever, on Northern Alliance Radio Network. December 2006.

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    RufusRJones@RufusRJones·1y

    If I were Israel, I would drop double the amount of bunker busters on those tunnels that is required and then finish it off with MOABs. They aren't going to give up more hostages.

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    RufusRJones@RufusRJones·1y

    If you want people to procreate more FICA slaves, stop forcing them to use government money and then lie about the inflation rate.

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    RufusRJones@RufusRJones·1y

    The other thing is, after they stop gratuitously printing money, you need to have an extremely libertarian economy. In 2008 they told everybody to get a house, and now nobody can afford any house or anything. How is that possible? What is good about that?

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