Marriage, monogamy, the family, and children are under attack.

But there's so much information, so many posts, infinite news articles...all coloring our vision and distracting us, which means it's hard to pinpoint exactly what went wrong, and where.

Jeremy and Conn Carroll discuss the history of monogamous marriage, the results of the last few centuries of liberty-obsessed philosophers, and what we can do to turn the tide to save marriages, birth rates, and families in America.

Conn Carroll is the author of Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy, and is the Commentary Editor for the Washington Examiner.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:13 The history of marriage

15:15 The consequence of hyper-individualism and the state of monogamous marriage today

20:40 The 3 Supreme Court cases that overturned the foundation of American family

27:10 The cost of "freedom" as the ultimate value

35:18 Shifting the philosophical foundation of culture

44:42 Feminists are blind to the damage being done to women

48:31 Differences between US and non-US answers to the marriage question

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Resources Mentioned:

Sex and the Citizen by Conn Carroll

Conn Carroll, Commentary Editor for the Washington Examiner

The Family Plan Calendar

Conn Carroll on X

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