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HERE is Theodore Faron, fellow of Merton College, Oxford, writing in the year 2021: “Like a lecherous stud suddenly stricken with impotence, we are humiliated at the very heart of our faith in ourselves. For all our knowledge, our intelligence, our power, we can no longer do what the animals do without thought.”

That’s from the first chapter of P. D. James’s novel The Children of Men. On the shelves at Borders, Baroness James is the Agatha Christie de nos jours, but she has other strings to her bow and her dystopian vision of a world in which the human race is unable to breed is a marvelous read, if not quite true to life: In The Children of Men, man is physically impotent; out here in the real world, it would be accurate to say we’re psychosomatically barren-at least in the non-red-state parts of the developed world.

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Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human-rights activist.

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HERE is Theodore Faron, fellow of Merton College, Oxford, writing in the year 2021: “Like a lecherous stud suddenly stricken with impotence, we are humiliated at the very heart of our faith in ourselves. For all our knowledge, our intelligence, our power, we can no longer do what the animals do without thought.”

That’s from the first chapter of P. D. James’s novel The Children of Men. On the shelves at Borders, Baroness James is the Agatha Christie de nos jours, but she has other strings to her bow and her dystopian vision of a world in which the human race is unable to breed is a marvelous read, if not quite true to life: In The Children of Men, man is physically impotent; out here in the real world, it would be accurate to say we’re psychosomatically barren-at least in the non-red-state parts of the developed world.