Off at a tangent from Joe Biden’s remarks: I commend to the attention of Asian-demography geeks —

(1) The current issue of The Economist. (When my son saw the cover his comment was: “Shouldn’t that be ‘Ronery’?” Hey, the kid’s half Chinese: he can make Asian-pronunciation jokes.)

(2) Mara Hvistendahl’s book on female feticide & consequent sex imbalances, and my review thereof in the upcoming issue of The New Criterion.