Author Brianna Lyman profile“First world nations are dying,” Pat Buchanan warned in his 2002 book The Death of the West.

“They face a mortal crisis, not because of something happening in the Third World, but because of what is not happening at home and in the homes of the First World.”

And what was not — and still is not — happening at home is childbearing. Buchanan was referring to fertility rates, which have been on the decline for decades. …