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Once, fatherhood was a very manly affair. It involved wearing a suit or a uniform, reading an actual newspaper, maybe in a recliner, maybe with a stiff drink by your side. That is, at least, the 1950s and 60s myth, which remains mighty, not least because we got to fall in love with it and critique it anew while watching Mad Men. Of course, flesh-and-blood dads were always more complicated. But for centuries, the commanding patriarch was at the center of family life. Dad was the decider of the domicile. But in the half century since father knew best, dads...

There is an old American promise that has always been more fragile than we like to admit, and today it is being broken in plain sight. The promise was never that everyone would succeed. It was that everyone would be allowed to compete under one set of rules, and that those rules would not be rewritten midstream to punish someone for what he is rather than what he has done. When Americans say they reject caste, they mean that no class of people is preemptively marked for exclusion. That promise is now being quietly revoked. Over roughly the last...

An entire generation of white men did exactly what they were told to do, only to watch the rules quietly change the moment they reached the starting line. Here's how DEI explicitly discriminated against an entire generation of young White Men. 00:00:00 DEI and the Lost Generation 00:07:05 The War Against White Men in American Media 00:18:38 Why DEI is Discriminatory 00:21:45 The Media Has Lost All Credibility 00:27:34 The War Against White Men in Academia 00:31:39 Discrimination Against White Men Was Deliberate 00:41:06 The War Against White Men in Hollywood 00:44:39 Why Is This Happening? 00:49:32 How Millennials and...

Welcome to another in our ongoing series of As I Said Twenty Sod-Bollocking Years Ago. Women have inherited the thrones of great powers - Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Victoria - and presided over massed ranks of courtiers drawn from the "pale, male and stale" (thank you, David Cameron). But America and its client states are the first in history in which every significant venue aside from ladies' sport is now dominated by women. The west is closer than any society should be to the end of men - which is a big source of the terrible confusion in our...

My Grandmother died when I was 3 weeks old. (Fidelity to the Catholic Faith came down to me from her through my Mother.) When her whole family was shipping out from Ireland, the boat had just departed; the parents looked around: "Where is Lillian?" Her Auntie was holding her back on the docks. "Now you'll come back to us." They never did.A song, very popular at the time, reflects similar circumstances. The Irish must flee, or perish. In Kathleen Mavourneen (click to hear the music), her erstwhile suitor--maybe almost betrothed--on the day he must depart, not to see her for...

I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band: My 11 year old son son joined the elementary school band, and so I went to the parents orientation night which was held at a local high-school. As the night went on it became obvious to me why young men rage against the larger social system.

SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS: Joining us now, White House Deputy Chief for Policy, Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller. Um, I know you, I went through all the reasons I support this bill, largest tax cut in history, no tax on tips, uh, over time, secures the border, helps the poor criminals, uh, brings America more closer, or brings America closer to energy dominance, which I think makes us rich. Uh, it builds out the next generation of weaponry, it's a very dangerous world, a lot of great stuff in there, one of the most conservative bills I've ever supported in...

A disturbing surge of swatting attacks has struck media personalities, conservative influencers, and me too. The FBI is investigating. FBI Director Kash Patel has said, “This isn’t about politics—weaponizing law enforcement against ANY American is not only morally reprehensible but also endangers lives, including those of our officers. That will not be tolerated.” “Swatting” is the crime of making calls to report fake emergencies in order to provoke armed police responses. The calls often claim a shooting, hostage situation, or bomb threat—to dispatch heavily armed police, typically SWAT teams, to a victim’s address. As federal and local authorities scramble to...