W. Bradford Wilcox

May 15, 2024 | aei.org | W. Bradford Wilcox

The American heart is closing. The signs, including dramatic drops in dating, marriage, and childbearing, are all around us.

Mar 27, 2024 | americanmind.org | W. Bradford Wilcox

features 5 minutes Without stronger kin, the American way grows fatally weak.

Mar 8, 2024 | aei.org | W. Bradford Wilcox

In his tear-filled farewell speech, Jason Kelce brought his 13-year NFL career to a close by underlining what really mattered in life: marriage and family. The longtime Philadelphia Eagles player, who made the NFL Pro Bowl in each of the last five seasons after getting married to his wife, Kylie, in 2018, said in his retirement speech: It’s no coincidence I have enjoyed my best years with Kylie by my side.

Feb 22, 2024 | aei.org | Jonah Goldberg |W. Bradford Wilcox

Marriage is a fundamental institution, so why is it under attack from both ends of the political spectrum? In his new book, Get Married, Brad Wilcox—a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor at the University of Virginia—makes the case that getting married and starting a family is the best way of leading a prosperous life. But how can law and culture encourage Americans to tie the knot? Why has public interest in marriage declined?

Feb 19, 2024 | ifstudies.org | W. Bradford Wilcox |Wendy Wang

The following essay is adapted from Brad Wilcox's just-released book Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization. "A Sociologist of Religion on Protestants, Porn, and the ‘Purity Industrial Complex’”—so read the title of a recent New Yorker interview in which Isaac Chotiner asked sociologist Samuel Perry about the nexus between religion, pornography, and marriage among evangelical Protestants.