The Problem With Cultural Controls on Seculars

Sally Kohn: The idea that we're going to get a durable secular pronatalism, maybe we will. But like, so far, the evidence is not there; conservative secularists start out having giant families on average. She says in Bahrain, where she's from, people acquire status by getting better designer shoes, better jewelry and more luxurious vacations than they do by having many children. "I would argue that this is actually one of the significant sort of problematic differences in our strategies," writes Kohn.