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The Glenn Show

Conn Carroll – The Assault on Marriage

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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1:00 Conn’s career in the conservative movement

4:34 The four sexual revolutions

14:17 What about feminism and LGBTQ rights?

20:25 Conn: “We spend over a trillion dollars a year on means-tested programs that punish marriage”

24:30 How online gambling is hurting working-class men

29:02 What are the benefits of marriage?

34:03 Why Conn thinks single-parenthood disproportionately harms boys

37:12 The link between political and domestic structures

44:49 Will Trump enact policies that promote marriage?

48:42 Conn: We should strengthen obscenity laws in order to restrain online porn

55:52 The conservative case for birthright citizenship

Recorded February 11, 2025

Links and Readings

Conn’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage is Destroying Democracy

David Blankenhorn’s book, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem

Melissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese’s report on pornography

Conn’s Washington Examiner piece, “The Conservative Case for Birthright Citizenship”

George Borjas’s books on labor and immigration



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0:00.0

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0:21.8

Thank you.

0:23.4

Hello, everybody.

0:24.2

This is Glenn Laurie.

0:25.6

You've tuned in to The Glenn Show.

0:27.6

I am with Con Carroll, who is Commentary's Editor at the Washington Examiner, served as

0:36.0

communications director for Senator Mike Lee for a number of years and is an old Washington hand with a new book out.

0:45.8

The book is Sex and the Citizen, How the Assault on Marriage is destroying democracy.

0:52.5

Do I get that correct?

0:53.9

You nailed it.

0:54.6

Yeah, that's the title of the book.

0:57.1

Very interesting.

0:58.8

So welcome, Khan.

1:01.1

It's an honor to be here, Glenn.

1:02.3

I'm honored to be talking to you.

1:04.0

That's kind of you to say.

1:05.3

What makes it so honorable to be talking to me?

1:08.5

Oh, well, I've been watching you and John McQuarter on blogging heads for, you know,

1:13.1

I don't want to make you feel too old, but over a decade now.

1:16.6

So I'm a big fan of both of yours.

1:19.8

And, yeah, watching your brains out from that blogging heads, having your own show,

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