The critics of modernity are multiplying, but how many people are rolling up their sleeves and actively rebuilding among the ruins? We spoke with Stephen Blackwood, founder of Ralston College in Savannah, Georgia, about civic alienation, architecture, olive farming, what we still have to learn from the past and the hope of building the future.
 
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We had the great pleasure of speaking with Rob Henderson, a former foster child turned wunderkind psychologist currently finishing up his PhD at Cambridge University. We spoke about his escape from difficult circumstances, the paradox of losing freedom to gain freedom, The Sopranos and the curious disconnect between what psychologists and sociologists know to be true and what we are *supposed* to broadcast as truth. Don’t miss his invaluable advice for lost boys looking to move forward with their lives. Subscribe to his newsletter for weekly insights on human nature.

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A listener asks us to discuss the masculinity crisis in China, and how similar/dissimilar it is to ours. We discuss cultural change, technological shifts, AI girlfriends, and the Communist Party of China’s efforts to masculinize their young boys.

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In this episode, we respond to a listener's questions about government intervention: what have various governments done and not done, and what might they do to address the Lost Boys problem? Another question asks us to name the parallels between younger Millennials struggling to find their footing and older, middle-class voters pulling the lever for Donald Trump.

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In 2018, an online mob attempted to cancel the poet Joseph Massey’s existence, spreading rumours and allegations against him to friends, strangers and employers, damaging his livelihood and his mental health. To our collective fortune, Joseph is still working, still writing, working to rebuild his life. He generously shared his time with us to speak about the experience of public shaming, the politicization of America’s creative writing programs, and the power of words to both hurt and heal.

Read his story in Quillette here.

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Pregnancy is a mystery, most of all to men, who have to watch the process unfold from the outside. In this episode, Phil asks Christina what her experience has been like and how it’s changed her understanding of herself, women, and her goals in life.

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When well-meaning policy disregards nature, nobody wins. We discuss Joe Biden’s Executive Order, its impact on Title IX and the ACLU's Four Myths About Trans Athletes.


 
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Educator, editor at Project Forever Free, mother of three sons and writer Erika Sanzi is devoted to enlightening others on the boy crisis. Insightful, funny and incredibly well-informed, Erika talks to us about the K-12 education system in the US, how boys are falling behind and the extent to which people ignore or refuse to acknowledge the data that is right in front of them regarding the state of boys and men in the 21st century.

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Alex Kaschuta is a writer, podcaster and all around brilliant voice of reason who has carved out a unique place for herself in the dissident digital space with a witty sense of humour and an incisive Eastern European skepticism. We spoke to her about many things, including Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate, Jordan Peterson, iron curtains, the demise of Western institutions, the commodification of loneliness and desire, John Gray's Black Mass and imminent apocalypses.

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The real worry is not men who want to tear down society. That’s not what is going to cause America to collapse. It will be the men who do nothing. It’s a similar set of men who feel themselves disenfranchised and not invested and not represented, but the ones who are really lethal to your republic or to your nation or to your culture aren’t the ones with the zip ties or the guns – they’re the ones who are going to sit at home and play video games while the republic burns. The narrative of white guilt is not a narrative the is going to unify America. It’s a narrative that will bitterly, bitterly divide the country. And it will result in what you saw at the Capitol.

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