There’s Something About Marriage

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Marriage is a fundamental institution, so why is it under attack from both ends of the political spectrum? In his new book, Get Married, Brad Wilcox—a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor at the University of Virginia—makes the case that getting married and starting a family is the best way of leading a prosperous life. But how can law and culture encourage Americans to tie the knot? Why has public interest in marriage declined? And how does marriage make people better off? Show Notes: – Brad’s page at AEI – Brad’s new book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization – Brad: “Marriage Is Key to Living Your Best Life” – Brad: “Why You Should Get Married” – The Remnant with Russ Roberts – Elizabeth Grace Matthew: Can People Be Persuaded to ‘Get Married’? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, uh...
0:15.0	can I please have your attention.
0:18.0	Can I please have your attention?
0:19.0	And you, Digger! Go Jigga! Jigga!
0:24.0	Greetings your listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast.
0:31.0	Brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch media.
0:34.0	There have been a bunch of books and articles in the last I don't know year or so, two years,
0:40.0	all about marriage and divorce and
0:43.7	divorce and marriage and all this kind of stuff.
0:47.7	And people keep asking me,
0:49.2	or my guy I dentin, my assistant who asks me me should we get this person or that person to come on and talk about it and I'm always like no Brad Wilcox's book is coming out soon and we got to have him on so let's just wait for that so finally Brad Wilcox who's a sociologist at
1:05.3	the University of Virginia he is the head of National Marriage Project at UVA yes
1:11.4	the National Marriage Project at UVA, yes. The National Marriage Project at UVA,
1:14.4	a colleague of mine at the American Enterprise Institute,
1:16.4	and the author of a new much-discussed book,
1:19.8	get married, why Americans must defy the elites, forge strong families, and save civilization.
1:27.0	Brad, welcome back to the remnant.
1:30.0	It's good to be here today, Jonah.
1:32.0	First question, as always with new books, although you kind of gave it away in the title.
1:36.0	What's your book about?
1:38.0	So it's about kind of this big paradox, Jonah.
1:41.0	The paradox is that on the one hand we're seeing the sort of real world
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