Michael Knowles

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423 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 16 Sep

Michael Knowles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Ben Shapiro Show · Ep. 2502 - Why The West's Birth Rate Collapsed... and Why Government Ain't The Fix · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

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And it's even if you personally matched

Don't practice it. matched

It's just there. matched

You kind of get it in by osmosis, which is very, very helpful for these issues. matched

There is a strong, obviously, biblical moral foundation of how people are supposed to act, and it happens to be pretty conducive to virtue. matched

There is a sense of common enemies. matched

Uh, you know, so uh we could use a lot more of that in the United States. matched

I think that's actually a very good model. matched

And so it gets down to, okay. matched

What's the government supposed to do? matched

Uh you know, the the government for most of American history, uh we don't have a a a church establishment, we don't have a confessional state, certainly, but the government did promote religion matched

All the time. matched

You know, we had blue laws, stores closed on Sunday, prayer in schools, Bible in schools. matched

Uh Yoram Hazoni, a great Israeli philosopher, points out, you you can't have education without uh pr Bible in schools, mu much less have a you know a robust, virtuous population. matched

So you could put all of those things back in. matched

That would help increase the fertility rate. matched

In in terms of marriage, yeah, we've we because of uh liberalism, we've just totally weakened marriage, we've liberalized divorce. matched

Don't forget that matched

State of New York didn't fully liberalize divorce until like 15 years ago. matched

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