Media coverage
Reviews of What Are Children For?
Wall Street Journal, “Three Books on What Being a Parent Really Means” by Jennifer Frey (August 23, 2024)
Law & Liberty, “The Progressive Case for Parenthood” by Elizabeth Grace Matthew (August 16, 2024)
The Dispatch, “‘What Are Children For?’ Can’t Remain a Question Forever” by Elayne Allen (August 10, 2024)
The Atlantic, “The Real Reason People Aren’t Having Kids” by Christine Emba (August 1, 2024)
Compact, “The Poverty of Secular Pro-Natalism” by Leila Meichoui (July 31, 2024)
First Things, “Why Millennials Aren’t Having Children” by Luke Lyman (July 29, 2024)
New Statesman, “Generation Not Yet” by Ann Manov (July 25, 2024)
Washington Post, “Why Are Today’s Young People Ambivalent About Having Kids?” by Katha Pollitt (July 18, 2024)
Christianity Today, “Kids Aren’t Cheap. That Doesn’t Fully Explain Why We’re Ambivalent About Having Them” by Bonnie Kristian (June 12, 2024)
New Yorker, “How Liberals Talk About Children” by Jay Caspian Kang (June 7, 2024)
Library Journal, “What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice” by Julia M. Reffner (May 1, 2024)
Publishers Weekly, “What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice” (March 18, 2024)
Kirkus Reviews, “What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice” (January 25, 2024)
Podcasts & radio
Wisdom of Crowds, “What Are Children For?” with Damir Marusic and Christine Emba (August 9, 2024)
On Nonfiction, “Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, Authors of What Are Children For?” with Callie Hitchcock (August 6, 2024)
Manifesto Podcast, “Should We Bring Children into Existence?” with Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel (July 25, 2024)
WOSU Public Media, All Sides, “Why Americans Aren’t Having Children” with Anna Staver (July 30, 2024)
Plain English, “The Radical Cultural Shift Behind America’s Declining Birth Rate” with Derek Thompson (June 21, 2024)
Commonweal, “How to Talk About Having Kids” with Dominic Preziosi (June 13, 2024)
KSL NewsRadio Inside Sources, “Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman: Keep Children Out of the Culture Wars” with Boyd Mathesen (June 12, 2024)
Time to Say Goodbye, “What Are Children For?: A talk with Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman about their new book” with Jay Caspian Kang and Tyler Harper Austin (June 5, 2024)
Interviews & features
Good Housekeeping UK, “Why Motherhood Has Become a Tougher Decision for Women” by Joanna Moorhead (July 1, 2024)
Publishers Weekly, “New Books on Deciding Whether to Have Children” by Pooja Makhijani (January 5, 2024)
Upcoming book events
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Swarthmore
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE - NIGHT OWLS
October 5, 2024
with Jonny ThakkarDetails TBA
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Wheaton
WHEATON COLLEGE
October 9, 2024
with Ryan Kemp
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Chicago
UCHICAGO - NIGHT OWLS
October 10, 2024
with Agnes Callard
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
Chicago, ILDetails TBA
Past events
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London
WATERSTONES
August 15, 2024
with Tom Whyman
82 Gower St.
London, UK
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Online
INTERINTELLECT SALON
June 20, 2024
with Tara Isabella Burton
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New York
BOOK LAUNCH PARTY
June 12, 2024
with The Point at TJ Byrnes
77 Fulton St.
New York, NY
7-?? p.m. -
New York
MCNALLY JACKSON (SOHO)
June 11, 2024
with Elizabeth Bruenig
134 Prince St.
New York, NY
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Chicago
SEMINARY CO-OP
June 10, 2024
with Agnes Callard
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL
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Oxford
EXETER COLLEGE - BOOK SYMPOSIUM
May 13, 2024
Respondents: Rachel Fraser, Tom Whyman & Maya Krishnan
Cohen Quad
Walton Street
Oxford, United Kingdom
3:15 p.m.