Marriage on the Rocks (Robert Wright & Conn Carroll)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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4.7 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
0:28 Conn and the ancestry of this podcast 2:29 Conn’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy 9:34 Modern matrimony by the numbers 18:44 Are monogamous societies more egalitarian? 24:10 Why the West went monogamous 35:15 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Conn Carroll (Washington Examiner, Sex and the Citizen). Recorded December 06, 2024.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 Why monogamous marriage is on the rocks 11:28 Conn’s proposals to fix America’s marital issue 15:14 Would income redistribution make for more marriages? 19:19 Porn, gambling, and other anti-marriage forces
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:27.1 | Hi, Kahn. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello, Bob. |
| 0:32.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:33.0 | I'm doing well, sir. |
| 0:34.9 | Good. |
| 0:35.6 | Let me introduce us. |
| 0:37.0 | I am Robert Wright, publisher of the non-zero newsletter. |
| 0:40.0 | This is a non-zero podcast. You are Khan Carroll, and you actually have a pretty deep connection to this |
| 0:46.1 | podcast in a sense because the non-zero podcast evolved out of something called bloggingheads. |
| 0:53.6 | TV, which some might say was ahead of its time, but in evolved out of something called bloggingheads.tv, |
| 0:55.1 | which some might say was ahead of its time, |
| 0:58.1 | but in any event, we were in this game a long time ago |
| 1:01.2 | in 2005, in fact. |
| 1:05.7 | And you were co-hosts of one of our first shows, |
| 1:09.5 | which was called The Weekend Blog. |
| 1:12.4 | It, not Blob, Blog. |
| 1:14.9 | I later had a feature in the newsletter called The Weekend Blob, actually. |
| 1:19.8 | That evolved into the DMZ, which is now hosted by Bill Shere and Matt Lewis, |
| 1:30.5 | assuming it's still going, |
| 1:31.6 | they've taken quite the vacation since the election. |
| 1:33.8 | I'm not sure that's still a thing. |
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