Get Married
November 5, 2025
What's the recipe for happiness? If you listen to liberal elites or red pill influencers, you'd say it's making money, living for yourself, and staying single without kids—and you'd be wrong. Nothing predicts happiness better than a good marriage.
According to new research by the University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox, our kids and communities—not to mention our civilization as a whole—are much more likely to flourish when the state of our unions is strong. Despite this, record numbers of Americans are not succeeding at getting or staying married.
In this hard-hitting book, Wilcox reveals the anti-family messages and policies coming out of Hollywood, Washington, the media, academia, and corporate America that have weakened marriage. Along the way, he knocks down a number of myths they’ve propagated.
I started this book because I thought it was by Bradley R. Wilcox, but it turned out not to be. I probably wouldn’t have read it had I known upfront. This book is largely statistics surrounding different concepts of marriage. It made me feel all sorts of things: I felt proud to have been married for over 20 years, and on the other side, it made me feel inadequate as a husband and father. I think it had a lot of interesting information, but it wasn’t a great book.