What Is Not Discussed, Will Not Be

To Be Irish Is To Know That In The End The World Will Break Your Heart.

...there Is Simply Nothing So Important To A People And Its Government As How Many Of Them There Are, Whether Their Number Is Growing Or Declining, How They Are Distributed As Between Different Ages, Sexes, And Different Social Classes And Racial And Ethnic Groups, And Again, Which Way These Numbers Are Moving.

The Steady Expansion Of Welfare Programs Can Be Taken As A Measure Of The Steady Disintegration Of The Negro Family Structure Over The Past Generation In The United States.

The Soviet Union Came Apart Along Ethnic Lines. The Most Important Factor In This Breakup Was The Disinclination Of Slavic Ukraine To Continue Under A Regime Dominated By Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia Came Apart Also, Beginning With A Brutal Clash Between Serbia And Croatia, Here Again 'nations' With Only The Smallest Differences In Genealogy; With, Indeed, Practically A Common Language. Ethnic Conflict Does Not Require Great Differences; Small Will Do.

There Is One Unmistakable Lesson In American History; A Community That Allows A Large Number Of Young Men To Grow Up In Broken Families, Dominated By Women, Never Acquiring Any Stable Relationship To Male Authority, Never Acquiring Any Set Of Rational Expectations About The Future - That Community Asks For And Gets Chaos.