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Ryan added it Jun 08, 2020 Joseph Ben Zion Wa"enberg (August 26,
The playbook neo-conservatives and right-to-lifers use to push 1933 - June 28, 2015), known as Ben J.
Wa"enberg, was an American author,
their agenda of criminalizing abortions, increasing anti-woman
commentator and demographer. He was
and anti-immigrant rhetoric. an aide and speechwriter to President
Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968,
As is turns out, It's not a moral or a religious imperative, it's a and served as an adviser to Hubert
fear-based numbers game in which they are scared of losing power Humphrey's 1970 Senate race.
in the next 30-40 years due to low birth rates. Wa"enberg was a senior fellow at the
American Enterprise Ins!tute in
Washington, D.C. He was appointed to
Read it for free @ the internet archive as it's no longer in print (on various commi"ees and commissions by
purpose) to keep this information out of the public's hands. Presidents Carter, Reagan, and George H.
W. Bush, as well as by then-Speaker Tom
https://archive.org/details/birth ...more Foley. Wa"enberg died on June 28, 2015
from complica!ons following surgery.
13 likes · Like · see review Wa"enberg's wri"en works included: The
First Universal Na!on, 1991; Fewer: How
Ty G rated it Aug 03, 2013 the New Demography of Depopula!on
Shelves: great-reads Will Shape Our Future, 2004; Values
Ma"er Most, 1995; and Figh!ng Words: A
This book is very interesting it tells a lot about numero Tale of How Liberals Created Neo-
misconceptions genetic misconceptions and the fate of genetically Conserva!sm, 2008. (less)
recession albino people. On earth there is nothing so sacred that
will not be destroyed in their quest for a European abstract future. BOOKS BY BEN J. WATTENBERG
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Sam rated it Jun 18, 2013

Shelves: natalism
One of the earliest explicitly pro-natalist books, Wattenberg does
an excellent job of laying out the problems with too few babies... More…
and how we could address the problem.

This book was written in 1987, and so it's interesting to compare it

to more recent pro-natalist books like "What to Expect When No
One's Expecting." ...more
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Ietrio rated it · review of another edi!on Jul 22, 2021

Shelves: junk
The global population is increasing, the problem with Wattenberg
is that not enough White children are born and the brown people
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are gaining on ”the free”. Free is just an euphemism for certain $19.80
special Whites and their few allies, and the whole discourse is
against freedom. RELATED ARTICLES
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