Conn Carroll – The Assault on Marriage
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1:00 Conn’s career in the conservative movement
4:34 The four sexual revolutions
14:17 What about feminism and LGBTQ rights?
20:25 Conn: “We spend over a trillion dollars a year on means-tested programs that punish marriage”
24:30 How online gambling is hurting working-class men
29:02 What are the benefits of marriage?
34:03 Why Conn thinks single-parenthood disproportionately harms boys
37:12 The link between political and domestic structures
44:49 Will Trump enact policies that promote marriage?
48:42 Conn: We should strengthen obscenity laws in order to restrain online porn
55:52 The conservative case for birthright citizenship
Recorded February 11, 2025
Links and Readings
Conn’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage is Destroying Democracy
David Blankenhorn’s book, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem
Melissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese’s report on pornography
Conn’s Washington Examiner piece, “The Conservative Case for Birthright Citizenship”
George Borjas’s books on labor and immigration
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