Demography as the thing that explains most of what looks like culture. Housing prices, school closures, which products sell, which jobs open up and when.
A Canadian book, built on Canadian data, which is why it landed harder here than the American equivalents.
The argument is deliberately deterministic and overreaches because of it. What survives is the habit of asking how old everyone is before reaching for a cleverer explanation.
Read April 1999.
