In 2020 I advanced the radical idea that the USA doesn't need a larger population. I riff on this idea as I add the piece to my website.

We have updated the story published by Scientific American in May 2024. Our short update has just been posted by a think tank in Hong Kong.

I sent a letter to the Council of Economic Advisors in 1986 taking issue with the Council’s position on immigration. My view hasn’t changed.

This is my lifetime best publishing achievement. I don't expect to ever top it in terms of readership and policy significance.

Japan’s population is shrinking, but this is not a catastrophe as portrayed in many news reports and commentaries.

The Financial Times seems to like my letters. This is the third one they have published since the beginning of this year.

I have tried to get the Biden Administration to include a “new city” project in their program to reduce migration from Central America.

In my February 2022 Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, I suggested that growing the US population to 800 million is a lousy idea.

Before deciding on a migration policy, the USA should have a policy aimed at stabilizing our policy around the 330 million level.

In my February 2021 Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I wrote that China’s falling birth rate is a positive, not negative, trend.

In a December 2018 blog post for Brookings, I predicted that the UN’s new Global Compact on Migration will fail due to political resistance.