The only constant is change. Over time, demographics, climate, regimes, jurisdictions and natural land and water boundaries ...

Robert Kaplan’s latest book on big geopolitical questions reflects a shift away from high-minded ideals in US establishment thought. But instead of self-critical pragmatism, what he offers as a ...

The Social Security Administration's projections are not sunny, but they are still overly optimistic. They somehow project that our birth rate will rebound tomorrow.

Consider Thomas Malthus. In “An Essay on the Principle of Population” (1798), the pioneering economist identified what came to be known as the “Malthusian trap.” ...

Thomas Malthus arguably started it with his 18th-century prediction that population growth would always run ahead of food production. He was unlucky in having his conjecture picked over for centuries.

Consider Thomas Malthus. In “An Essay on the Principle of Population” (1798), the pioneering economist identified what came to be known as the “Malthusian trap.” ...

Consider Thomas Malthus. In “An Essay on the Principle of Population” (1798), the pioneering economist identified what came to be known as the “Malthusian trap.” ...

Consider Thomas Malthus. In “An Essay on the Principle of Population” (1798), the pioneering economist identified what came to be known as the “Malthusian trap.” ...

Why disease? Why famine? Why golf? If so, you are in good company: the problem of evil vexed St Augustine, preoccupied St Thomas Aquinas and worried Thomas Malthus. But do not worry about them.

Malthus feared that society would be unable to provide the resources that extra mouths require and that overpopulation would inevitably result in famine, disease and war.