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Recent Episodes

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...
Nov. 9, 2025

Episode 2: Supreme Failure

In 1888, four men in black robes changed America forever. In 2015, the United States Supreme Court found that marriage in America began as a private contract that somehow morphed into a public one, never explaining how that h...
Nov. 7, 2025

Episode 1: The Foundation of America

Everything you think you know about Family Law is wrong. The ability of the State and Federal government to dictate to married couples and to parents how to raise their children is an unconstitutional fiction. Host Alan W. Co...

Recent Blog Posts

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…

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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…

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