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October 24, 2023
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** What Explains America’s Marriage Downturn?
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Cultural, legal, and economic changes have made it less central to daily life—and that’s a problem.
Patrick T. Brown
The Dispatch
Wedding bells have been ringing ever less frequently in America.

This may seem like a personal problem to some, but marriage has always had political implications in addition to romantic and cultural ones. Lower fertility rates pose serious fiscal and social risks. Single parenthood exacerbates inequality and stifles opportunity. And detachment from personal bonds has correlated with an ongoing increase in loneliness—now a recognized public health crisis. The downstream consequences of decreased marriage will be felt for a long time to come.

Yet warnings about infrequent nuptials have for years been downplayed. It’s not always clear what politicians can do about it, some say. Others question why we’d want to do something in the first place. Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York magazine, reflected this more left-wing approach to the conversation around marriage, lamenting how “policymakers have routinely imposed marriage—as if it were a smooth, indistinct entity—as a cure for the inequity, dissatisfaction, and loneliness that plague this nation.”
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Aaron Kheriaty writes with Emily Burns for City Journal about how elites and institutions caused the polarization of our political climate ([link removed]) .
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Also for City Journal, Lance Morrow remembers a 1988 meeting with the founder of Hamas ([link removed]) .
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For The Federalist, Nathanael Blake writes about Hamas' genocidal intent ([link removed]) .
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For Confirmation Tales, Ed Whelan writes about a Ninth Circuit nominee who was exposed as a fake ([link removed]) .
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The Lethal Logic of Assisted Suicide
Last week, Ryan T. Anderson spoke at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. on “The Lethal Logic of Assisted Suicide ([link removed]) .”
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Rachel Morrison will participate in a debate on Thursday, November 2, on Biden's Title Nine Overhaul ([link removed]) for the Federalist Society's Illinois Student Chapter.
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Should We Regulate Big Tech Platforms?
Yesterday, Clare Morell participated in a livestreamed debate with Reason.com Senior Editor Robby Soave on the topic “Should We Regulate Big Tech Platforms? ([link removed]) ”
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This morning, Henry Olsen appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journalhttps://www.c-span.org/video/?531260-4/henry-olsen-house-speaker-electionto discuss the effort by Republicans to elect a House Speaker ([link removed]) .
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Henry also joined Wesley J. Smith's Humanize podcast to discuss the crisis in American politics and what to do about it ([link removed]) .
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Thursday, November 30, 2023 and Friday, December 1, 2023
AEI Auditorium, 1789 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

Thirty years ago, Robert P. George’s landmark book Making Men Moral challenged the consensus that justice requires governmental neutrality on contested moral questions. How has the book shaped decades of debates about civil liberties and public morality, and why will it remain relevant in the future?

Please join EPPC and its co-sponsors for a conference on Making Men Moral’s enduring influence on public policy.
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