From a reader, a good catch–and an acute piece of analysis:

I was reading Fortune magazine (current issue with Trump on the cover) and came across a pretty astonishing paragraph. It’s at the end of an article by Phillip Longman, author of “The Empty Cradle”. The article deals with declining fertility rates worldwide and their effects on worldwide wealth and economic growth. Toward the end of the article Longman writes:
“Even more sobering are the implications for modern civilization’s values. As urbanization and globalization continue to create a human environment in which children become costly impediments to material success, people who are well adapted to this environment will tend not to reproduce…So where will the children of the future come from? Increasingly they will come from people who are at odds with the modern world–who either ‘don’t get’ the new rules of the game…or who believe they are (or who in fact are) commanded by a higher power to procreate. Such a higher power might be God speaking through Abraham, Jesus, Mohammed, or some latter-day saint, or it might be a totalitarian state. Either way, such a trend, if sustained, could drive human culture off its current market-driven, individualistic, modernist course, gradually creating an antimarket culture dominated by fundamentalism–a new dark ages…”
What a bizarre and repellant conclusion. His general idea that religious propogation leads to the Dark Ages is offensive and his specific shot at Latter-day Saints is easily refuted (Latter-day Saints tend to be highly educated and are no different from the average church-going population in terms of income and non-church associations (proxies for connection to society)). Apparently it is just fine to state that having a religious motivation for family life will destroy society.
An interesting thought experiment: if Longman had concluded his piece with a blast at gay marriage (and its negative effects on fertility), would Fortune still have published it?