Jeffery L. Degner

Shortly after hearing about the birth of Jesus, Herod the king tried to have the child murdered. Indeed, Herod's oppressive rule and the predations of the Roman state play a huge role in the Christmas story.

High time preference is a sign of economic degradation, and Bose shows that a rejection of Christian sexual ethics is a feature of a high time preference society.

After being bamboozled by the fake crisis of “overpopulation” for a half-century, the nations with advanced economies are coming to grips with the “birth dearth” problems ahead of them. Not surprisingly, governments are compounding their earlier anti-population errors.