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'Get Married' comes highly recommended from exactly who you want to see recommending a marriage book.
Brad Wilcox’s new bookarrived at my house shortly after the Grammy Awards show, almost as though it was meant as an answer to it.
Wilcox is the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. The title of his book gets right to the point. Get Married, he advises, and adds: Americans must defy the elites, forge strong families, and save civilization.
The Grammy Awards performance demonstrated exactly why his book is so needed.
Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs’s beautiful duet captured our culture’s dark view of marriage.
One of the greatest performances of the night was the 1980s pop hit “Fast Car,” which is experiencing a second life as a 2020s country hit.
In the song, a woman wants a fast car to speed her away from her unemployed alcoholic dad after his marriage fell apart, and, later, wants a fast car to speed her away from her own dead-end marriage. She yearns someday to “be someone,” but domestic life holds her back. She has to make a decision: “Leave tonight or live and die this way.”
As great as the song is, it reinforces the myth Wilcox says Americans have been telling ourselves since the “Me” decade of the 1970s. He sees it in everyone from TikTok misogynist Andrew Tate to Bloomberg journalist Molly Smith: Our zeitgeist insists that true happiness lies in staying unencumbered by marriage.
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Brad Wilcox’s new bookarrived at my house shortly after the Grammy Awards show, almost as though it was meant as an answer to it.
Wilcox is the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. The title of his book gets right to the point. Get Married, he advises, and adds: Americans must defy the elites, forge strong families, and save civilization.
The Grammy Awards performance demonstrated exactly why his book is so needed.
Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs’s beautiful duet captured our culture’s dark view of marriage.
One of the greatest performances of the night was the 1980s pop hit “Fast Car,” which is experiencing a second life as a 2020s country hit.
In the song, a woman wants a fast car to speed her away from her unemployed alcoholic dad after his marriage fell apart, and, later, wants a fast car to speed her away from her own dead-end marriage. She yearns someday to “be someone,” but domestic life holds her back. She has to make a decision: “Leave tonight or live and die this way.”
As great as the song is, it reinforces the myth Wilcox says Americans have been telling ourselves since the “Me” decade of the 1970s. He sees it in everyone from TikTok misogynist Andrew Tate to Bloomberg journalist Molly Smith: Our zeitgeist insists that true happiness lies in staying unencumbered by marriage.
Continued below.
'Get Married' and the Grammys: A book with better advice
'Get Married' comes highly recommended from exactly who you want to see recommending a marriage book.
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