It's Not a Values Crisis, It's a Housing Crisis.

J.D. Vance and the rising pro-natalist right have an explanation for collapsing American birth rates: a values crisis . People are too selfish, too secular, too career-focused, too disconnected from the meaning of family. The solution, they argue, is cultural — restore the right values and the babies follow. The data tells a different story. And it’s an uncomfortable one for them, because the…