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9 Sept 2020 Conversations with Tyler Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low
“I think probably we say that religiousness is almost constitutive of right-wingy-ness, at least in some definitions.”
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- Matt Yglesias
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- 9 Sept 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…If you’re rooting for a more religious America, does that mean, in a sense, you’re rooting for a more right-wing America? These are correlated, right? Causality may be tricky, but I suspect there is some. I think probably we say that religiousness is almost constitutive of right-wingy-ness, at least in some definitions. Yeah, I think a more traditionalist America, in some ways, would be good. It seems that two-parent families, or maybe three-parent families for that matter, have and support more children than do one-parent families. So what should we do to encourage there being more two- and three-parent families?…
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