Stanley Kurtz's "Demographics and the Culture War" in the Hoover Institute's Policy Review is nutty stuff (right now, you can tell that these guys are trying too hard when they feel the need to incorporate the murder of Theo van Gogh in their Grand Theories) but it is a useful overview of how the non-evangelist conservatives see the world going.

The movement of population from tightly knit rural communities into cities, along with contraception, abortion, and the related entry of women into the workforce, explain many of the core cultural changes of the postmodern world. Secularism, individualism, and feminism are tied to a social system that discourages fertility. If a low-fertility world is unsustainable, then these cultural trends may be unsustainable as well. Alternatively, if these cultural trends cannot be modified or counterbalanced, human population appears on course to shrink ever more swiftly.

So the choice is between "secularism, individualism, and feminism" vs. population growth? I think I'll go for the first answer, Bob. But not so fast...

Broadly speaking, both the free market and the welfare state assume continual population growth. "Pay as you go" entitlements require ever-larger new generations to finance the retirement of previous generations.

Ah-ha. So feminists are endangering granny's retirement fund and the free market. Don't they care who gets hurt in their crazied hunger for Ani DeFranco CDs?

And it soon slips into dystopian SF fantasy:

A prolonged economic crisis accompanied by widespread concern over depopulation would undoubtedly place feminism under pressure. Yet it’s unlikely that postmodern attitudes toward women, work and family could be swept aside — or even significantly modified — without a major cultural struggle. A eugenic regime would be the logical way to safeguard feminist goals in a depopulating world, and there is ample precedent for an alliance between eugenics and feminism.

And thus feminism leads inevitably to a eugenic regime, and that is sure to end in tears. Hope you're happy now, ladies.

So to sum the article up: women who are educated, work, think for themselves and put off having children until they're at least 13 are going to be the death of the American way of life. We must breed, breed, or the economy will crash. Or... hold on a second, maybe young American workers could put 4% of their social security contributions into private accounts -- why, that would solve everthing!