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Crime, also driven by marriage.

Loneliness, isolation, depression, even polarization within our politics is also largely driven by the decline of marriage.

And then, of course, there's the future of humanity.

You're seeing this demographic decline, not just in this country, but across the world, and again,

also being driven by the decline of marriage. This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the

Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. That was Con Carroll,

author of the recent book, Sex and the Citizen,

how the Assault on Marriage is Destroying Democracy.

We'll talk in depth with Con about that book a little bit later on in today's program.

First, we're joined by Dr. Larry Arne, president of Hillsdale College.

Dr. Arne has spent decades studying Winston Churchill,

the great British statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945.

Also again, from 1951 to 1955. Hillsdale has published the official biography of Winston Churchill.

Dr. Arn helped to complete it. We also have a website.

You can find all sorts of info, Winston Churchill.hillsdale.edu. And we talk to Dr. Arn today just after the 150th anniversary of Churchill's birth, November 30, 1874, to discuss three reasons

you might want to study Winston Churchill.

Dr. Arne, start us off.

What's the first reason people might want to take a deeper look at Winston Churchill?

The first reason is he lived a big life.

Big, I think, or bigger than any statesman who ever lived.

He was in four wars, became a best-selling author about those wars, both in books and in newspaper

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