Miscellaneous
Last time out we talked to University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP), who’s championed marriage for its time-tested personal and social benefits. This week we speak to Vicki Larson (@OMGchronicles), a California journalist and coauthor of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels. Like Brad, Vicki sees the value of marriage, but she views it a flexible institution that can assume different forms in response to a changing world. These range all the way from polyamory to the binding covenant marriages available in Louisiana and elsewhere. We debate the extent to which marriage needs to evolve to stay relevant in 2020, and somehow manage to establish that Vicki and Brad may agree more about marriage than it might first seem.