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Algerian lessons for the Syrian resistance

Connelly speaks at French Senate on 50th Anniversary of Algerian War

Connelly interviewed for Special Issue of Le Monde

Interview on Radio France International on the need for both France and Algeria
to Confront their Past

A Diplomatic Revolution
Ten Years Later

Connelly speaks in Algiers on how Algeria Liberated France

Connelly debates UN priorities with UNFPA director

Connelly on PRI's The Takeaway with John Hockenberry

Washington Post on How World Population Grows, and Grows Old

Foreign Policy Magazine on UN's What-If Population Scenarios

BBC News on History of Population Control

Connelly hosts 3-part BBC Radio documentary "Controlling People," on history and future of population
control

Science reports on “youth bulge” debate

Radio France features week of debates and interviews on the Algerian war

Connelly interviewed on France 24 about L’Arme secrete du FLN

Historians and economists debate meaning of life in Cato Unbound

FDA Commissioner Peggy Hamburg speaks at Columbia on history and future of public health

Connelly takes on Optimum Population Trust for BBC World Service

New Book Documents
Western Role in Promoting Sex Selection in Asia

Arte Documentary Describes International Support for Forced Sterilizations in Peru

Judith Miller and Columbia Magazine report on Summer School for Planetary Threats

Columbia Magazine feature on the overpopulation debate

Connelly participates in BBC World Debate in Bangladesh

Connelly article on “Controlling Passions” for the Wilson Quarterly

Program on Fatal Misconception
by Brazil’s TV Globo

Connelly debates Paul Ehrlich
and Bob Engelman for Salon Roundtable

Lecture at University of Melbourne broadcast by Australian national radio

Ben Eltham interview for
New Matilda

Interview for the Canberra Times

Where do Babies Come From?
Q and A with Barbara Keys

Interview with Coast to Coast AM

Connelly debates John Cleland on the BBC

Connelly appears on Michael Medved show

Connelly interviewed by James Hughes, author of Citizen Cyborg

Connelly interviewed for
NPR's Air Talk with Larry Mantle

Connelly debates Malthusians on the BBC.

Interview on the History Channel on Iraq, Algeria, and Insurgency

Connelly on Withdrawing from Iraq in The New York Times

Stanford talk on Unnatural Selection: Population Control and the Struggle to Remake Humanity
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Review Attention

"This is the best book on population this reviewer has read in several years, one that every demographer, population economist, public health official, congressional staffer, private foundation executive, religious leader, and concerned citizen should read. The book...compellingly integrates its subject into a huge, panoramic struggle over basic human freedoms, the shape of families and societies, and the future of the planet itself. Summing up: Essential." Choice

"...the publication of Matthew Connelly's book is not just perfectly timed: it is essential. The assistant professor of history at Columbia University has delivered a devastating account of the population-control movement; he demonstrates, detail by shocking detail, how a movement that believed it was acting from the highest humanitarian ideals became responsible for callous abuses of human rights on a global scale, ruining millions of lives in a grotesque eugenic experiment."The Times of London

"Connelly lays bare the dark secrets of an authoritarian neo-Malthusian ethos that created an international population agenda built around control...He describes the official policies that made it acceptable to hand out food aid to famine victims only if the women agreed to be sterilised. And he shows how this thinking culminated in the horrors of forced sterilisation in India in the 1970s and inspired the Chinese to set up their one-child policy... as an investigative narrative of how individuals, NGOs, governments and UN agencies colluded over decades to sideline the human rights of hundreds of millions of the world's poorest citizens, this is a valuable and extremely readable work."New Scientist

"When I mentioned to friends who work in the family planning field that I was reviewing these books, nearly all of them expressed anger at Connelly in particular, for "dredging up" this history and for failing to emphasize the positive aspects of the population movement… But Connelly and Maternowska also have a point, which is not only about the unintended harm caused by well-intentioned but poorly run development programs. The mistakes those programs made and not Connelly or Maternowska, who merely report themprovided fuel for the religious right, and these books, though painful to read, contain many valuable lessons for anyone who cares about making development programs work, both technically and politically."The New York Review of Books

"Fatal Misconception is the result of an awesomely sustained research effort…the book is eminently readable and informative." Science

"This is a truly extraordinary book that I cannot recommend too highly, not just to the small community of historians working in the area of health and population, but for public health workers, demographers, scholars in gender studies, feminist and health activists and, indeed, even the occasional policymaker who reads." Economic & Political Weekly

"Mr Connelly's most devastating critique of population control is not that it destroyed lives, or was based on imperialist or eugenic ideas, but that it did not work. In country after countryeven in Chinabirth rates were already falling when the government began implementing more coercive policies."The Economist

"[A] disturbing and compelling global history of population control programs...Drawing from records in more than 50 archives in seven countries, including those from Planned Parenthood and the more recently opened Vatican Secret Archives, Connelly provides extensive examples of movements to adjust populations...The world population growth is slowing and the age of population control appears to be over for the moment, but Connelly writes that his book is not just about history: It is a cautionary tale about the future."Christian Science Monitor

"Passionate and troubling...Connelly tells the story of the 20th-century international movement to control population, which he sees as an oppressive movement that failed to deliver the promised economic and environmental results...Ambitious, exhaustively researched and clearly written, this is a highly important book."Publisher's Weekly starred review

 

 

 

 

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