Martin Regnen explains this week why birth control is killing the arts:

I suspect that the arts are dying in a very literal sense - natural selection is slowly driving the population of artists to extinction. The cause is not greed, capitalism, cultural degeneration, progressive democracy, or the Internet. It is something a lot more down-to-earth: advances in birth control technology. The condom, the pill, abortion etc. are literally killing the arts.

Read his latest column: The Arts Are Dying Out