WTH Should I Read This Summer ... LIVE! “Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization” by Brad Wilcox.
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Closing out What the Hell’s summer book series, Brad Wilcox discusses his book Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization (Broadside Books, 2024) in front of a live audience of the very people on whom Wilcox hopes to impress his message: College students. Today, Americans are getting married and starting families older and older, if at all. But America’s youth might be surprised to learn that not only are married people more likely to be more financially stable and successful in their careers than their unmarried peers, but they are generally happier and feel more fulfilled as well. The data is there, we should all Get Married.
Brad Wilcox is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he directs The Home Economics Project. Wilcox is also a Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, where he directs the National Marriage Project, and is a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. He is the author of Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization (Broadside Books, 2024).
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:02.9 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. |
| 0:06.9 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell's going on? |
| 0:10.0 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:11.3 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:12.6 | I don't know what the hell is talking about. |
| 0:14.2 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:16.1 | What hell's matter with these guys? |
| 0:17.6 | We don't know what's going on. |
| 0:19.3 | What hell's going on what hell's going on who in god's name knows what |
| 0:22.3 | it's all about hi i'm daniel pletka and i'm martyson welcome to our podcast what the hell is going on now? What the hell is going on is we're having another live episode of our podcast with a group of young people who are here at AEI for the Summer's Honors program. And they've been listening to discussions about foreign policy and domestic policy and all these great things. |
| 0:54.3 | And we're going to talk to them today about why they should get married. |
| 0:57.2 | There you go, guys. Didn't expect that one. You know, it's remarkable to me. Just sitting down |
| 1:02.5 | and looking at the data in Brad's book, obviously, we know. We know that fewer and fewer |
| 1:07.5 | people are getting married. I was a little surprised that fewer and fewer people are getting divorced. I was a little surprised that fewer and fewer |
| 1:12.0 | people are getting divorced. One of the things that is absolutely fascinating is how compartmentalized |
| 1:18.5 | we are. One of AEI scholars Charles Murray wrote a book called Coming Apart. And in that book, |
| 1:24.9 | he describes how America has been separated into bubbles. And I think |
| 1:30.0 | what that means eventually is not, you don't just know other people like you, college graduates, |
| 1:35.2 | people who look like you, people who think like you ideologically. Your friend cohort comes from |
| 1:41.8 | that. Your marriage comes from that. |
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