Hey, everyone is Andrew Claven with this week's interview with Douglas Wilson.

We've been talking to a bunch of people about personal things

because I think we are going to rebuild this culture and rebuild this world. We're going to do it

one person at a time. And even if we are going to fail to do it, the people who rebuild their

lives are going to be survivors, the remnant of the truth. And Douglas Wilson has written a

new book called Keep Your Kids, How to Raise Strong Kids,

in an Age of Therapeutic Sentimentalism.

He sent me his own introduction that says,

Douglas Wilson is the senior minister of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho.

He's an award-winning novelist, but has written a number of other books that didn't win nothing.

I think this book, as far as I know, hasn't won anything, but I read it and I enjoyed it very, very much.

And one of the reasons I'm so interested in this, I've told you the story before, but I visited Douglas and his group in Moscow, Idaho, and was so impressed with how happy the young people were. And I remember just

coming home and telling my wife about how just startlingly well-adjusted and content they all looked

and how educated, well-educated and thoughtful they were. And so I think Douglas has a lot of

cred with me as long as, as well as the fact that I actually personally like him,

and he's a man of culture and intelligence.

This book has a really interesting subtitle.

It's called Keep Your Kids, How to Raise Strong Kids in an Age of Therapeutic Sentimentalism.

I was really captured by that because I'm really interested.

I really believe that's a thing, but I'm wondering if you could

define therapeutic sentimentalism. Sure thing. I've written a number of family books, marriage

books, raising kids, but I realized I was listening to a book called Bad Therapy by Abigail Schreier,

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