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David Brooks' Life Will Have No Meaning If You Fail to Breed

Yesterday’s David Brooks column was written in response to the rarely asked question: What would happen if a freak solar event sterilized everyone in the Western Hemisphere? Without progeny, explains everyone's favorite National Greatness Conservative, we of the West would plunge into a “cataclysmic spiritual crisis,” deem our lives to be “without meaning and purpose,” and forgo any grand ambitions we might once have nurtured ... (Read more in Double X.)