Philip N Cohen

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Sociologist and demographer, University of Maryland. Director of SocArXiv. philipncohen.com #sociology #demography #inequality
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Putin demands more babies while he's decimating the young male population and bankrupting the country. He wants more babies to populate a death cult, not communities.

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Putin demands more babies while he's decimating the young male population and bankrupting the country. He wants more babies to populate a death cult, not communities. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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"Graduate students should not have to choose between having children and having a career."

I agree. That said... people who don't raise kids are going to get more done than people who spend time on kids no matter how supportive your policies are. They are going to seek rewards for that.
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"Graduate students should not have to choose between having children and having a career." I agree. That said... people who don't raise kids are going to get more done than people who spend time on kids no matter how supportive your policies are. They are going to seek rewards for that. https://www.science.org/content/article/having-child-during-grad-school-especially-hard-women

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My Zepbound year https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/my-zepbound-year/

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Incredible

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Because of the journal, the conclusion was foregone, naturally. But it's still worth observing this is a very poorly designed analysis.
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Because of the journal, the conclusion was foregone, naturally. But it's still worth observing this is a very poorly designed analysis. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-026-09715-w

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Fine.
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I think the word you're looking for is counterrevolution
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I think the word you're looking for is counterrevolution https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/opinion/gender-sexual-revolution-men-women.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Published in full for the first time, the notes for a short toast John Maynard Keynes gave at a Malthusian League dinner in 1926. Here is the key bit. He thinks England's population will soon peak and decline, which was wrong by a century or so (barring more immigration), but the eugenics bit...
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Published in full for the first time, the notes for a short toast John Maynard Keynes gave at a Malthusian League dinner in 1926. Here is the key bit. He thinks England's population will soon peak and decline, which was wrong by a century or so (barring more immigration), but the eugenics bit... /1

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The progress in cancer survival over my lifetime is a continuous source of wonder to me (not from reading the statistics, but from the people I've known, and also myself)

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The progress in cancer survival over my lifetime is a continuous source of wonder to me (not from reading the statistics, but from the people I've known, and also myself) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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NYT's story about Chevalier's old tweets says she "disparaged [white people's] methods of personal hygiene" when she mocked Mike Huckabee for saying people "from the rural south" know how to weather a toilet paper shortage by using corn husks. No mention of race. (Several Pinocchios awarded!)

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NYT's story about Chevalier's old tweets says she "disparaged [white people's] methods of personal hygiene" when she mocked Mike Huckabee for saying people "from the rural south" know how to weather a toilet paper shortage by using corn husks. No mention of race. (Several Pinocchios awarded!)

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