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0:00 Conn and the ancestry of this podcast
2:05 Conn’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy
9:10 Modern matrimony by the numbers
18:20 Are monogamous societies more egalitarian?
23:46 Why the West went monogamous
34:51 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Conn Carroll (Washington Examiner, Sex and the Citizen). Recorded December 06, 2024.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 Why monogamous marriage is on the rocks
11:28 Conn’s proposals to fix America’s marital issue
15:14 Would income redistribution make for more marriages?
19:19 Porn, gambling, and other anti-marriage forces
