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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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