Malcolm Collins
Author and co-founder of the pronatalist movement
On the podcast
On the record
In March 2023, Collins argued that developed-world fertility collapse — not overpopulation — was the dominant demographic threat, citing South Korea's sub-1.0 fertility rate; global fertility-decline coverage has since moved from a fringe topic to mainstream policy discussion.
In their own words
“We've sort of set up our society like a big pyramid scheme, not just in terms of social security... debt is a wonderful thing when things are growing. But when things are shrinking, it compounds the pain.”March 2023, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast
“As the university system proliferated it developed a monopoly over this social accreditation, which used to be much more democratized in our society... the infection has completely controlled the university system now.”March 2023, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast
“The conservative sees themselves as sort of an avatar of a cultural tradition that they hope to survive intergenerationally... their highest aspiration is that they're maximizing their grandkids' happiness.”March 2023, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast
Where this conversation traveled
Moments in later episodes where Malcolm Collins's ideas and work resurfaced, drawn from the show's transcripts.
A week later, Vance told returning guest Michael Vassar that Collins's population-collapse interview was 'kind of a mind blowing conversation' for his audience, and Vassar extended Collins's linear-versus-cyclical time framework to explain the progressive/conservative divide.
Listen →Michael Vassar, March 2023
Three weeks later, Vance opened his conversation with Malcolm's wife Simone Collins by telling her that Malcolm 'was a huge hit on the podcast just a couple of weeks ago.'
Listen →Simone Collins, March 2023
The following week, guest Samuel Hammond said 'if listeners have heard your Malcolm Collins interview from last week' while discussing whether governments should subsidize childcare and childbirth.
Listen →Samuel Hammond, March 2023
If you valued this conversation
- Simone Collins — Malcolm's wife and co-founder of the pronatalist movement, covering education and demographic collapse from a complementary angle
- Samuel Hammond — on social insurance policy responses to demographic and economic decline
- Rob Henderson — on how elite-class ideas propagate through institutions and impose costs on everyone else
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