Therapy promised Americans greater agency and insight. Instead, it delivered a more satisfying story about why someone else is to blame, writes Jonathan Alpert.

Earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. kicked off Mental Health Awareness Month with the launch of several initiatives to reduce the prescription of antidepressants. Kennedy announced the plan-which includes new clinical guidelines, training for physicians, publishing new research on prescription trends, and changes in insurance billing-at a daylong mental health summit at the Make America Healthy Again Institute.

Everybody knows about the decline in birthrates. Fewer people understand why-or just how significantly it could transform society in the next few decades.