Caitlin Flanagan on Marriage, Motherhood, and Modern Women
6/22/20261 hr 4 min
Caitlin Flanagan joins the show today, now an official columnist at The Free Press. Flanagan, one of the sharpest essayists working today, spent 35 years in Los Angeles before deciding she’d had enough, and tells Coleman why. The answer says a lot about what progressive governance has done to one of America’s great cities. From there they get into territory Flanagan knows well: the state of marriage, the dating crisis, and the case for having children in a culture that has talked itself out of wanting them.
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Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Caitlin Flanagan. Caitlin is an American writer, critic, and essayist best known for her long-running work at The Atlantic magazine. She's the author of To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife, and she's now a columnist at the Free Press. In this episode, we talk about Caitlin's decision to leave Los Angeles after 35 years. We talk about the decline of LA due to public disorder, homelessness, and many other issues. We talk about the abundance movement among some Democrats. We talk about the so-called homelessness industrial complex. We talk about the Palisades and Altadena fires. We talk about Karen Bass. We talk about modern womanhood, balancing career and marriage, declining birth rates, dating across political divides, and much more. So without further ado, Caitlin Flanagan. [upbeat music] On this show, we spent a lot of time having honest, unfiltered discussions around Israel, Zionism, and antisemitism. And if our conversations have made you more curious about any of these topics, I have a recommendation