released 3/17/2023

Allan C. Carlson’s many books and articles have examined ways in which the family life has been reconfigured since the Industrial Revolution, with largely destructive effects. Carlson has been a guest numerous times on our Journal, and three of those appearances are revisited here. In addition to discussing his books, From Cottage to Work Station: The Family’s Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age (1993) and The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (2000), he also talks with Ken Myers about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 1996 book, It Takes a Village.

29 minutes

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