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Brad Wilcox on Why You Should Get Married

Brad Wilcox on Why You Should Get Married

The Good Fight

June 8, 202454m 47s

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Show Notes

Yascha Mounk and Brad Wilcox discuss how marriage contributes to better outcomes for both children and adults.


Brad Wilcox is Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Wilcox is the author of Get Married.


In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Brad Wilcox discuss whether more people getting married really would improve their lives; why we might need a political and cultural environment more conducive to marriage; and what explains the “happiness gap” between liberals and conservatives in the US.


This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.


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