Here’s what America’s marriage crisis looks like: In 1960, nearly 70% of adults were married. Today, only half are. In 1978, 59% of 18 to 34-year-olds were married. Today, just 29% are. The latter is a particularly striking drop in a relatively short period of time, and it has everything to do with the messages the elites sell about marriage.

These messages are pernicious, yet they have no effect on the elites themselves. As Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg write this past weekend in the Wall Street Journal, in an article entitled “Marriage Is Becoming More Like a Luxury Good in U.S.,” “The middle three-fifths of U.S. earners have experienced the sharpest declines in marriage rates over the past four decades compared with people at the bottom of the income ladder and those at the top.”