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July 29, 2024
The Rise of ‘Marriage Deserts’ and What We Can Do About Them
…secure Americans are married. Churchgoers, Asian families, college graduates and Republican voters each enjoy the benefits of a stable, married family. Here there are abundant networks of role models for…
May 6, 2024
How States and Communities Can Strengthen Marriages
Family is the greatest source of social capital, providing the setting in which people grow, develop, and anchor their lives. Stable and healthy marriages are at the foundation of strong…
April 18, 2024
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
…often have discounted the importance of the nation’s houses of worship. One recent New Yorker article, for instance, suggested faith left Christian men tortured by “guilt and shame that makes…
March 4, 2024
The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions
…of happiness,” poll after poll is telling us that millions of Americans are failing at this most important Jeffersonian pursuit, with happiness hitting “record lows” in recent years, according to…
February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
…impression that all because of an archaic Christian sexual ethic that forbids pornography, Christian men and communities are rife with “depression,” “unhappiness,” and disrupted marriages. The New Yorker mocked the books, small…
February 14, 2024
Valentine’s Day Marred By Loneliness Crisis
…of roughly three-quarters of a million people is the fourth-richest in the United States, with a median income of just under $150,000. And yet feelings of isolation have emerged as…
February 14, 2024
Why You Should Get Married
…is a bad deal for men in our egalitarian age. (He was also charged in 2023 with rape and human trafficking in Romania.) “I don’t think many men actually benefit from marriages…
February 13, 2024
The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
…in the civilian world, in part because of these benefits. My own, updated analysis of the General Social Survey (GSS) indicates that this pattern continues today. To be sure, some of this…
February 12, 2024
Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization
…Moderator: Ian Rowe, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute 6:15 p.m. Q&A 6:30 p.m. Adjournment Related Content Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization W….
October 27, 2023
What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage
…coordinator at the Institute for Family Studies. She previously worked in research with sociologist Christian Smith and studied Great Books, theology and constitutional studies at the University of Notre Dame….