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Provocation: Why Don't I Have Kids?

Shadi Hamid on unmet aspirations and revealed preferences.

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Shadi Hamid
Oct 22, 2024
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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…

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