Why Men Dress Like Slobs | O. W. Root

What Not to Do • Low class behavior, antisemitism, Boomers, and more in this week's digest.

Confronting the Unspeakable Truth • Jacob Savage’s viral essay exposes how DEI has quietly shut doors on a generation of young white men—while too many refuse to say it out loud.

Comments on the Evangelical Elite Problem • The Best of Your Thoughts

Discussing the Evangelical Elite Problem

The Problem with the Evangelical Elite • There is no evangelical elite. Why that matters and what to do about it.

Why Families Are Fleeing Cities | Bobby Fijan

The Elite That Built America • The techno-nationalist elite, Ivy League networks, upscaling Vegas and more in this week's digest

How Scott Galloway Mastered Brand-Safe Masculinity • The manosphere’s sharpest advice wrapped in center-left bubble wrap—and it’s making him richer than almost anyone else in the space.

The Conservative Civil War + Next Member Zoom Info • What's going on with these conservative controversies?

A Special Christmastime Podcast: Reflections and Supporting the Mission • Gratitude, Guests, and Looking Ahead

Who Is Worse? Andrew Tate or Nick Fuentes • Andrew Tate sold hope wrapped in Bugattis. Nick Fuentes sells hopelessness wrapped in Catholicism.

Me in the NYT: Abolishing Property Taxes is a Bad Idea • My new piece in the New York Times on the growing calls by some in the Republican party to abolish property taxes.

How the Gospels Pass the Historical Test | Tim and Lydia McGrew

The Most Important Invitation I'll Send This Year • Join my Member community at a once only annual discount. Get candid podcasts, monthly Zooms, and connections with the readers who make this work possible.

Thankful for "Don't Tread on Me" Conservatives • They drive me nuts — but they’re the last line of defense between us and soft totalitarianism

Planning for 2026

Why You Have to Believe! | Doug DeVos

Women Against the Centrist Manosphere • Scott Galloway on men, Peter Thiel on capitalism's challenges, liberal clergy and more in this week's digest.

Between Empathy and Agency • Conservatives need to validate young people's struggles—and then challenge them to act anyway

The Rich, the Poor, and the Ultra-Rich • The haves, the have nots, and the have yachts

How Society Forgot About Fertility | Darel Paul

Fossilized Faith • Religion going obsolete, among the pro-natalists, and why we should reject "toxic masculinity"

The Evaporation of the Sacred • We traded worship for branding, mystery for metrics, and now the soul is colonized by code

Every Choice Kills a Universe | Joseph Holmes

The Rise of the Catholic Right • Right-wing Catholics, techno-optimism, social media driving polarization, and more in this week's digest.

Poverty and Pumpkinscaping • The growing divide between porch elites and penny-pinchers means populist fire is inevitable

Why Conservatives Struggle to Build Media Companies

It's a Boomer, Boomer, Boomer, Boomer World • Much of what we think of as American culture is really just the cultural preferences of white Boomers

The Dignity of Dependence | Leah Libresco Sargeant

Gen-Z's Pornography Cult • "Gooning," men and autonomy, Christian scholarship, and more in this week's digest.

The Great Property Tax Debate

The Catholic Model for a Post-Protestant America • Early 20th-century Catholics built a thriving parallel world of parishes, schools, and charities to survive a hostile culture

State Laws and Your Religious Freedom | Mark David Hall

Rescheduling Member Zoom

Hollywood’s Misstep on Men’s Mental Health • The Springsteen biopic pushes therapy as the cure for men’s struggles, ignoring the value of traditional masculinity in overcoming personal demons

Mainstreaming American Vice • Once unthinkable, the integration of gambling and adult content into mainstream culture reveals a transformed American ethos