Gynocracy Rising
There was a time, not that long ago, when First Amendment rights were relatively stable and well-understood in America. Those days are long gone. Consider our country’s college campuses, where free...
View ArticleThe Battle to Technologize the Body
As is usually the case with mass shooters, Audrey Hale’s dead body had barely cooled—lifeless on the floor of a Nashville Christian school after being shot by heroes in the local police...
View ArticleThe American Mind Podcast: The Roundtable Episode #170
The American Mind’s ‘Editorial Roundtable’ podcast is a weekly conversation with Ryan Williams, James Poulos, Seth Barron, and Spencer Klavan devoted to uncovering the ideas and principles that drive...
View ArticleThe American Mind Podcast: The Roundtable Episode #172
The American Mind’s ‘Editorial Roundtable’ podcast is a weekly conversation with Ryan Williams, James Poulos, Seth Barron, and Spencer Klavan devoted to uncovering the ideas and principles that drive...
View Article‘Red-Pill’ Dating Content Is Toxic
“We men and women are in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.” I think about that quote from G.K. Chesterton whenever I’m scrolling through Instagram...
View ArticleExiting the Sex Wars
The backlash to mass feminism is not surprising. Decades of cultural programming have assured us that men and women are interchangeable human units, and that any deviation from this norm results from...
View ArticleGenital Mutilation for the Masses
Gender identity ideology, the worldview surrounding the core belief that sometimes men are women and other times women are men, has gotten the foothold that it has because people naturally trust that...
View ArticleVictimhood and Vanity
In some ways, the supersonic growth of “Pride Month” over the last few years was extremely unlikely. In other ways, it seems to have been inevitable. Prior to our secular age, the word “pride,” for...
View ArticleThe American Mind Podcast: The Roundtable Episode #176
The American Mind’s ‘Editorial Roundtable’ podcast is a weekly conversation with Ryan Williams, James Poulos, Seth Barron, and Spencer Klavan devoted to uncovering the ideas and principles that drive...
View ArticleMeet Your New Allies
You can’t expect broader society to keep up with intramural American Muslim drama, but something big has happened among Muslims which potentially holds significant consequences for the culture war. A...
View ArticleA Rising Tide of Pride
It’s Pride Month. Have you noticed? If it’s eluded you to this point, you must not have plugged the word “pride” into Google recently, and so missed the glitzy display cartoon marchers bearing rainbow...
View ArticleJudging Sex as Race
Why is the transgender issue so hot? Much of it has to do with the reality that sex and race are not merely very different things, but also they are different kinds of things. Sex is a biological...
View ArticleHow to Save the Boys of America
From an academic perspective, girls are wiping the floor with boys. Girls tend to do considerably better in languages, math, and science. This is true not just in the U.S. Girls’ dominance in the...
View ArticleThe American Mind Podcast: The Roundtable Episode #182
The American Mind’s ‘Editorial Roundtable’ podcast is a weekly conversation with Ryan Williams, James Poulos, Seth Barron, and Spencer Klavan devoted to uncovering the ideas and principles that drive...
View ArticleLong-Distance Runaround
It’s been busy on the males-in-female-sports front. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act; Kansas overrode its Democratic governor’s veto to preserve...
View ArticlePity the Poor Trans Man
The three most active fronts in the battle over trans identity are public, shared territory designated for the sexes separately. Opening up public bathrooms, sports, and prisons has been central to...
View ArticleCamp Vibes Make Soft Men
This article is an observation about what’s happening to men. It covers a mysterious event called Vibecamp, popular among the tech elite, that was held in June in rural Maryland. Lower in profile than...
View ArticleFor the Roofers
In his superb recent book No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men, Anthony Esolen offers a detailed and riveting discussion of the endless planning and stupendously difficult,...
View ArticleFeminist Phails
There are many reasons why I don’t describe myself as a feminist. For one, I’m sick of hearing complaints all the time, and not just in the Barbie movie, about the unattainable beauty standards...
View ArticleSterilizing the Young
The aggressive promotion of gender ideology has coincided with a sharp rise in children identifying as transgender. As with the eugenics movement of a century ago, doctors are subjecting these young...
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