Episode 35: Talia Lavin on the Christian Right's View of Marriage/Parenting
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Author Talia Lavin (whose Wild Faith is out on 10/15/24) talks Moira and Adrian through the Christian Right's takeover of American life, through objects that are unlikely to appear on your bookshelf, but that nevertheless shape the way many Americans live and what policies they have to live with. From the parenting manuals like James Dobson's Dare to Discipline to Stormy Omartian's marriage guide Power of a Praying Wife, Talia lays out how an image of the family and child-rearing built on subservience, authoritarianism and often enough violence has become part and parcel of our American landscape. (A big trigger warning on domestic, physical and sexual abuse.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Adrienne Dob. |
| 0:07.7 | And I'm Moira Donagin. |
| 0:09.0 | And whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right. |
| 0:14.1 | So Adrian, today we have an esteemed guest, Talia Lavin, the author of Wild Faith, How the Christian Right is Taking Over |
| 0:23.7 | America. Talia is, for my money, one of the most morally intelligent writers on the far right |
| 0:31.1 | in America today. She has a real keen insight for what the stakes of their project are. |
| 0:39.1 | And as we're going to see today, |
| 0:45.1 | she also has done a lot of the legwork looking at the intellectual origins of the far right and the texts that make up their worldview. Talia, thank you so much for being with us. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm delighted. I'm a longtime Moira fan, and I'm also an Adrian fan now that we've |
| 0:56.8 | chatted. You're lucky. I don't like send you weird texts at 3 a.m. like I do to Moira. |
| 1:02.3 | It's always a pleasure. |
| 1:05.2 | I'm so happy to be here and to talk about my forthcoming book, Wild Faith. |
| 1:10.1 | A Christian Right is taking over America, |
| 1:12.2 | which is coming out October 15th. |
| 1:14.5 | And it is terrific. |
| 1:15.4 | Spoiler alert. |
| 1:16.2 | TLDR, buy this book. |
| 1:18.7 | We're going to be not talking about the whole book here today. |
| 1:21.7 | We're really, Moran and I got fascinated about a particular part of this book. |
| 1:24.8 | But the claim of the book is in some way kind of bigger, |
| 1:28.4 | right? The basic contention seems to be that we discount the influence of the Christian right |
| 1:34.9 | at our own peril. There's this kind of parallel universe that a lot of this stuff happens in, |
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