The Black Family’s Escape From Corporal Punishment

In May, the Guardian published a profile of Malcolm and Simone Collins, a married couple who have become the public faces of the pronatalist movement, which promotes high birth rates as a bulwark against population decline. The Collinses are white, transposing the bookish aesthetic of a Wes Anderson movie onto their frontiers-y corner of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. They also hit their kids. At one point, reporter Jenny Kleeman...