Here at the dawn of the engagement-maximization era, the sex wars have gone nuclear. Every day, despite a pretty exhaustive “mute” list, my Twitter and TikTok feeds are inundated by sanpaku-eyed influencers opining the absolute impossibility of modern love.

Pearl Davis, whose star rose ex nihilo as the first wife of the red pill right, has made it her mission to convince men that marriage is primarily a raw deal for them. Modern women are all dishonest w****s, she insists. Even the speaker?

Compare that to the swarms of liberal feminist influencers who teeth begin to gnash every time Ballerina Farms makes a new post. She peddles a dangerous lie that being a stay at home mom is ideal, let alone a real possibility, they whine.

In a sea of bad (and confused, if not dishonest) PR, the institution of marriage needs defending.

In today’s episode, I chat with Brad Wilcox, Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Having recently authored Get Married: Why Americans Should Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization (Harper Collins, 2024), Wilcox came to present the case for marriage as good, not just for society or children or taxation purposes, as it has been previously argued, but for men and women as individuals.

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