I sat down with Rob Henderson, author of "Troubled: A Memoir of Family, Foster Care, and Social Class,” to discuss why elite progressives promote radical ideas that they would never tolerate in their own lives. Coining the term “luxury beliefs,” he’s incisively diagnosed how their obsession with virtue signaling sacrifices the well-being of the poor. Rob shares how growing up in foster care, enlisting in the Air Force at 17, and later attending Yale and Cambridge shaped his worldview over the years. We also discuss Gen Z’s widening gender divide along political lines and what it could mean for the future of family formation.

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Rob’s article on sex differences: https://www.city-journal.org/article/men-women-political-divide

Follow Rob on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/robkhenderson

Read Rob’s work on Substack: https://www.robkhenderson.com/

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Outline:

[0:00] Why does over-schooling end in communism?

[17:22] Elites talk progressive but live conservative

[28:10] Family instability is much worse than poverty

[43:10] The male-female political split

[59:33] Did the country lose its mind in 2013?

[1:08:11] Are relationships and marriages doomed?

[1:27:40] America is suffering from wealth disease

[1:40:48] When is therapy useful and when is it the problem?

[1:47:55] Why more young men should consider the military

[1:54:36] Podcasts are good, but books are better

[1:58:48] Don’t stifle yourself, but don’t have pointless arguments

[2:02:26] Masculinity, rites of passage, and adulthood

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Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/izcLJ6fIE1A

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