Provocation: Why Don't I Have Kids?

Shadi Hamid on unmet aspirations and revealed preferences.

Every month, we give subscribers a chance to provoke our writers. This month, Shadi first took on Middle East politics and then turned to the more personal provocations he received — on kids, religion, and the mysteries of living well.

By popular demand — and because we will also publish a response to it — we have unpaywalled Shadi’s original, unpublis…