Recent Episodes
Jan. 7, 2026
Episode 8: Clavicular Destroys Socialism
In a recent interview with Michael Knowles, a 19-year-old genius going by the name Clavicular gave the clearest argument yet in favor of the marketplace, restating the American ideal of self-improvement to make himself the mo...
Dec. 24, 2025
EPISODE 7: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE AMERICAN IDENTITY
The week before Christmas 2025, Vivek Ramaswamy penned an article in the New York Times describing the United States as a classless society, as a credal society. We all live in privity of the Founding Generation who, by ratif...
Dec. 14, 2025
EPISODE 6: KRAMER V. KRAMER AND THE DEATH KNOLL FOR THE AMERICAN FAMILY
The film "Kramer v. Kramer," released in 1979, epitomizes American marriage in the 1970s, where both men and women were lost in a nation that promised freedom, but forced them into roles that they didn't necessarily want. Fed...
Nov. 30, 2025
Episode 5: Is Generation Z Ready for Free Market Marriage?
America was founded on two pillars: Religious Liberty and The Right to Contract. Marriage was, at the Founding, a marketplace, where individuals were required to vet their prospective life partners and, once chosen, enter int...
Nov. 23, 2025
Episode4: Same Sex Marriage and the Common Law
On Halloween, Conservatives Michael Knowles and Jack Posobiec expressed why they believe the Supreme Court should reverse itself and disallow same-sex couples the Right to Marry. Alan Cohen explains why they are profoundly wr...
Nov. 16, 2025
Episode 3: Women Are Society Defined
Margaret Mead said women were society defined. Therefore, marriage was not an agreement between the couple, but an agreement with society, and agreement that this woman and this man are off limits, off the market. Yet, beginn...
Recent Blog Posts
Dec. 28, 2025
What Is An American? How the History of Marriage Explains It All
By Alan W. Cohen Are we a credal nation, or something entirely different? Is, as some on the Far Right, claim, a descendent of the Mayflower more American than a third-generation citizen …
Nov. 24, 2025
The Crisis of the American Family: A Libertarian Solution
Signs are everywhere. They are impossible to miss. Fifty years ago, teenage girls dreamed of being a wife and mother, while young boys saw marriage as both something to avoid, an inevitability. Society demanded it. A recent survey shows te…
Nov. 6, 2025
Michael Knowles and Jack Posobiec Got It Wrong on the Same-Sex Marria…
By Alan W. Cohen Michael Knowles and Jack Posobiec have got it all wrong about marriage, and especially about same-sex marriage. While they are correct in stating that marriage was created as a religious institution for the purpose of creat…