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Interviews & Talks

Desert Streaming Podcast

Trust the Science? With Dr. Amy Hamilton

2024

“You walk in the good works that have been prepared beforehand… so I just keep trying to say ‘yes’ and I keep walking forward into things that I could never anticipate opening up.”
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Workshop Talk at University Catholic Center-UT Austin

The Good News about Men, Women, and Marriage from the Social Sciences

2023

“There’s a lot of bad news in the world today about men, women, and marriage, but I really want to focus on the good news… God had ordained this beautiful relationship between man and woman, that was going to bring forth…”
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Podcast Interview
Marriage, Divorce, and Human Flourishing

2023

In this episode, Dr. Orlandi and Dr. Hamilton cover the dynamic of modern relationships, why marriage rates are declining, and the long term effects of breakup within a family. They touch on how marriage can lower suicidal rates, enhance physical health, and lead to human flourishing…
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Public Discourse Webinar

Marriage and the Public Good: A Public Discourse Webinar with Amy Hamilton

2023

Public Discourse hosted a web event to celebrate the publication of the Witherspoon Institute’s latest book, the second edition of Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles. One of the book’s authors, Amy Hamilton of the University of Texas at Austin, discussed the book’s call to strengthen traditional marriage as a social institution.
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America’s way Forward on Marriage 

This is a lightly edited excerpt from the Witherspoon Institute’s recently published book.

2022

When it comes to family life, the great paradox of our time is this: every society that we think of as generally best for human flourishing—stable, democratic, developed, and free—is experiencing a radical crisis around…
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Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles
The purpose of this document is to make a substantial new contribution to the public debate over marriage.

2022

Too often, the rational case for marriage is not made at all or not made very well. As scholars, we are persuaded that the case for marriage can be made and won…
Purchase a Copy at Cana Vox: Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles (Second Edition).