Paul Constance

Honored to see my essay on the rebirth of Boston's Mystic River in @longnow's annual journal, Pace Layers. I argue that the multi-generational work of restoring a polluted waterway should be celebrated like the medieval enterprise of building a gothic cathedral. @MysticMyRWA

🚨 ¡Mañana es #WonkComms! ⌚️Jueves 30 de octubre, de 10 a 11:30 💡 Con Yanina Budkin @yaninab (Banco Mundial) y Paul Constance @presentbias (Sociopúblico) 🎙️Modera Sonia Jalfin @soniajalfin (Sociopúblico) 📝¡Te esperamos online! → docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

"Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want." @madeleinekearns in thefp.com/p/how-did-havi…

@madeleinekearns “Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want." thefp.com/p/how-did-havi…

@madeleinekearns "Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want. thefp.com/p/how-did-havi…

@madeleinekearns "Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want. thefp.com/p/how-did-havi…

@madeleinekearns: "Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want. " thefp.com/p/how-did-havi…

Conservative natalism's angry-man problem. natalliberation.substack.com/p/natalisms-an…

I recommend this darkly funny report on American pro-natalists by @barclaybram of The Economist. I'm glad my use of the word "abhorrent" made it into the piece, along with my plea to fellow progressives who are reluctant to acknowledge this issue. economist.com/podcasts/2025/…

Many thanks to CNN's @meenasaurus for making me sound like a sane liberal in this report on NatalCon. Definitely a strange event, but it convinced me that progressives need better ideas for enabling people to form families and have children.

Very pleased that my essay, “The Heresy of Decline,” is included in the inaugural edition of Pace Layers, a new annual print journal from the Long Now Foundation @longnow. Congratulations to its editor, @ahmedkabil. Learn more and order a copy here: longnow.org/ideas/pace-lay…

@tatsuki_tsukada Fantastic engraving!

#皆さんラフと塗った後を見せてください 塗った後というか摺った後… 版画なので左右が逆になります😁

@lymanstoneky Lucid and helpful explanation of the WPP. Thanks!

as a result, the UN forecasts can act only as a benchmark: "here's a forecast if everything was normal." if you want a boutique-ey forecast of what will actually happen given that things are not normal, here's my card: demographicintel.com

so UNWPP is probably wrong. but why are they wrong?

Today in @nytimes @rachelcwiseman and I on why in letting conservative policies and theatrics alienate us from the question of children, we’re only letting the right set our reproductive agendas for us in yet another way. nytimes.com/2024/06/10/opi…

Professional news: @FamStudies is launching a new Pronatalism Initiative with me at the helm. The project is initially supported by an Emergent Ventures grant (ht @tylercowen ). We're the first and only explicitly pronatal policy shop. ifstudies.org/blog/ifs-launc…

@Jacobkupp Muy bien dicho!

claudia sheinbaum winning is a victory for all leftist jewish environmental scientists who lived in the bay area in their twenties

@CRPakaluk It’s a lovely ad, but Argentines don’t seem to share its sentiments. Fertility there has fallen more in the last six years than in the last six decades. americasquarterly.org/article/latin-…

Damn I love this. Gets me every time.

@JenniferSciubba @PRBdata Congratulations! Very eager to see what you do there.

#1 fan of @PRBdata here. So pleased to begin this new chapter of my career today as head of this fantastic organization. #population #data

Four generations of Latin American demography wittily compacted into a single IM card.

@MoreBirths Thanks for this. Can you share a link to the paper?

What is causing collapsing fertility in Latin America? A new paper shows it is primarily due to a reduction in births among women in their teens and early twenties. While this seems like a desirable trend, it is leaving fertility rates far below replacement. A 🧵.