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Coming soon: Interviews with two other eloquent academic critics of feminism: Dr Janice Fiamengo (also with a new book) and Dr Danielle Sulikowski.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are not always easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study (involving, yes, many man-hours), and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet every day we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in angry, combative tones – well, just remember that venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the interviews listed and indexed, but in the meantime, here is a list of shows so far, with links to our YouTube playlist (most recent first). (Titles may differ slightly.)

#26: “Mr Hypergamy Returns”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#25: “Marriage Before Modernity: Covenants, Clans, and Bloodlines”, featuring Michael Sayen

#24: “He has Saved 604 Men from Suicide”, featuring Terrence Popp

#23: “The Church Failed Men”, featuring Dr David Edgington

#22: “The Family Court Nightmare to Exceed All Nightmares”, featuring Jeff Younger

#21: “Sex Is Weaponized”, featuring Steve Brule

#20: “Europe Is Feminized”, featuring D’Agosta

#19: “Men’s Issues: They Stop Short”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part II)

#18: “Men’s Issues: Challenges”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part I)

#17: “Is Sexual Freedom Destroying Civilization?” featuring William Collins (a.k.a. Rick Bradford)

#16: “Beyond Tucker”, featuring Tom Golden and Vincent McGovern

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown”, featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah, creator of “This is Shah”

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond, creator of “Thoughts and Mind”

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths”, featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Michael Sayen is an independent scholar, who has throughly researched marriage practices in the Bible, the Anglo-American Common Law, and other codes governing the family in the West, both ancient and modern. He is the graduate of Bible college and the author of several books, including most recently, Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage: Contracts and Covenants (2026).

Here we discuss concepts like covenant v. contract, polygamy v. monogamy, dowry v. bride price, and more.

I think you will find this discussion fascinating.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are not always easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study (involving, yes, many man-hours), and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet every day we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in angry, combative tones – well, just remember that venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the interviews listed and indexed, but in the meantime, here is a list of shows so far, with links to our YouTube playlist (most recent first). (Titles may differ slightly.)

#25: “Marriage Before Modernity: Covenants, Clans, and Bloodlines”, featuring Michael Sayen

#24: “He has Saved 604 Men from Suicide”, featuring Terrence Popp

#23: “The Church Failed Men”, featuring Dr David Edgington

#22: “The Family Court Nightmare to Exceed All Nightmares”, featuring Jeff Younger

#21: “Sex Is Weaponized”, featuring Steve Brule

#20: “Europe Is Feminized”, featuring D’Agosta

#19: “Men’s Issues: They Stop Short”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part II)

#18: “Men’s Issues: Challenges”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part I)

#17: “Is Sexual Freedom Destroying Civilization?” featuring William Collins (a.k.a. Rick Bradford)

#16: “Beyond Tucker”, featuring Tom Golden and Vincent McGovern

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown”, featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah, creator of “This is Shah”

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond, creator of “Thoughts and Mind”

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths”, featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

We also discuss extensively the special plight of servicemen and the mindboggling injustices inflicted on them by those who owe them gratitude. It is cruelly ironic that men who risk their lives to protect their families, homes, country, and all of us cannot protect themselves from the despair visited upon them by those they protect, including their own wives and governments.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are not always easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study (involving, yes, many man-hours), and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet every day we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in angry, combative tones – well, just remember that venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the interviews listed and indexed, but in the meantime, here is a list of shows so far, with links to our YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#24: “He has Saved 604 Men from Suicide”, featuring Terrence Popp

#23: “The Church Failed Men”, featuring Dr David Edgington

#22: “The Family Court Nightmare to Exceed All Nightmares”, featuring Jeff Younger

#21: “Sex Is Weaponized”, featuring Steve Brule

#20: “Europe Is Feminized”, featuring D’Agosta

#19: “Men’s Issues: They Stop Short”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part II)

#18: “Men’s Issues: Challenges”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part I)

#17: “Is Sexual Freedom Destroying Civilization?” featuring William Collins (a.k.a. Rick Bradford)

#16: “Beyond Tucker”, featuring Tom Golden and Vincent McGovern

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown”, featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah, creator of “This is Shah”

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond, creator of “Thoughts and Mind”

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths”, featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Dr Edgington is that rare thing nowadays: a dissident churchman and intellectual in the church. At one time in Western history — including early American history — almost all intellectuals were churchmen. That is when the churches had integrity, support, strength, influence, and when necessary in certain circumstances, power. No earthly or “ visible” church has ever been flawless, but Christian men (and yes, some women), inspired not only to see injustices in this world but also to do something about them — these men usually acted through the churches. It is no accident that when churches possessed those qualities, so did families and the men who headed them.

Dr Edgington’s new book tells us how churches and churchmen — Protestant, Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox — have abdicated this responsibility to state officials, leaving society in chaos and themselves marginalized.

This discussion will inform you of what you and all of us our missing because of today’s weak, impotent, emasculated churches. Even if you are not a Chrstian believer, you will be astounded to learn about the vital civic roles that churches at one time served: roles for which today’s substitutes — courts, law firms, therapists, pressure groups, think tanks — are only feeble imitations. We discussed a few, but we certainly plan to have Dr Edgington back to cover connected topics.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are not always easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study (involving, yes, many man-hours), and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet every day we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in angry, combative tones – well, just remember that venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the interviews listed and indexed, but in the meantime, here is a list of shows so far, with links to our YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#23: “The Church Failed Men”, featuring Dr David Edgington

#22: “The Family Court Nightmare to Exceed All Nightmares”, featuring Jeff Younger

#21: “Sex Is Weaponized”, featuring Steve Brule

#20: “Europe Is Feminized”, featuring D’Agosta

#19: “Men’s Issues: They Stop Short”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part II)

#18: “Men’s Issues: Challenges”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part I)

#17: “Is Sexual Freedom Destroying Civilization?” featuring William Collins (a.k.a. Rick Bradford)

#16: “Beyond Tucker”, featuring Tom Golden and Vincent McGovern

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown,” featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

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One of the rare family court horrors to reach general awareness is the case of Jeff Younger and his young son.

Being old enough to have passed my later childhood and adolescence during the advent of “second wave” feminism in the late 1960s and 1970s, I well remember the jokes — what we thought were jokes — about loony, homely feminists intent on castrating men. The joke is now reality, with feminists entrenched in penal institutions like the judiciary that “empower” them to carry out their sickest fantasies.

Having admitted this case, just a little, into the mainstream media (Tucker Carlson did a 10-minute interview with Jeff), the political class has no excuse for not knowing about it. Does it shock any of the professional politicos class enough to do something about it?

Jeff Younger is not only only a victim and father of a victim. He is also relentless activist who refuses to accept the unacceptable from overmighty government officials. He is also a sharp commentator on family court and connected matters.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc.

The Mansplainers is a podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are not always easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study (involving, yes, many man-hours), and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in angry, combative tones – well, just remember that venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, here is a list of shows so far, with links to our YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#22: “The Family Court Nightmare to Exceed All Nightmares”, featuring Jeff Younger

#21: “Sex Is Weaponized”, featuring Steve Brule

#20: “Europe Is Feminized", featuring D’Agosta

#19: Men’s Issues: They Stop Short”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part II)

#18: “Men’s Issues: Challenges”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part I)

#17: “Is Sexual Freedom Destroying Civilization?” featuring William Collins (a.k.a. Rick Bradford)

#16: “Beyond Tucker”, featuring Tom Golden and Vincent McGovern

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown,” featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Steve Brule is one of today’s more incisive commentators on these matters. Two pieces from his excellent site, Steve’s Substack, caught my attention in particular, and during our conversation I realized that they are related.

His essay on “The Abusive Nature of Perpetual Titilation” shows how, despite feminism’s early demand that women should not be treated as “sex objects”, that is now precisely how many young women present themselves — no small thanks to opportunities opened up by the Feminist Revolution itself. This is because sex a woman’s foremost means of “empowerment” (the other is children). This is deeply harmful to men, who are being manipulated, to young women themselves, whose sexuality becomes mercenary, and to the larger relations between men and women. In addition to bringing women power, it can also bring them profit, and this leads me to Steve’s other especially notable piece.

In his video, “Feminism’s Role in One World Government”, he provides one of the clearest and most comprehensive accounts of the massive transfer of wealth that is now occurring from productive people to unproductive — that is, from men to women. He also shows how this directly empowers globalist elites. All this is connected with the first because the leverage women comes through sex (and again, children). It is more than a sneer to observe that this makes such women, effectively, prostitutes.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc.

The Mansplainers is a podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are not always easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study (involving, yes, many man-hours), and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in angry, combative tones – well, just remember that venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#21: “Sex Is Weaponized” featuring Steve Brule

20: “Europe Is Feminized" featuring D’Agosta

#19: Men’s Issues: They Stop Short”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part II)

#18: “Men’s Issues: Challenges”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part I)

#17: “Is Sexual Freedom Destroying Civilization?” featuring William Collins (a.k.a. Rick Bradford)

#16: “Beyond Tucker”, featuring Tom Golden and Vincent McGovern

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown,” featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Living in Europe, I was especially pleased that we were able to welcome D'Agosta on The Mansplainers. We talked about the impact of feminism and feminization on Spain in particular and Europe in general. We discussed the welfare state, immigration, sovereignty, warfare, and the feminization of modern economies.

Topics discussed include:
• Spain's relationship with the European Union and the costs of economic dependence
• welfare states as social insurance systems and their effects on national sovereignty
• immigration, crime, and shifting concepts of citizenship and responsibility
• military decline, conscription, and the idea of the "citizen in arms"
• the feminization of warfare and its impact on foreign policy
• Europe’s transition from historic empires to welfare-oriented societies
• consumerism, family decline, and the rise of the "She Economy"
• whether markets and states benefit from atomization, divorce, and declining family formation
• families as productive economic units versus consumer societies

D'Agosta also previews his upcoming work examining the claim that men are naturally promiscuous, arguing instead that men, like women, are fundamentally oriented toward family formation.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are not always easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study (involving, yes, many man-hours), and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in angry, combative tones – well, just remember that venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#20: “Europe is Feminized" featuring D’Agosta.

#19: Men’s Issues: They Stop Short”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part II)

#18: “Men’s Issues: Challenges”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part I)

#17: “Is Sexual Freedom Destroying Civilization?” featuring William Collins (a.k.a. Rick Bradford)

#16: “Beyond Tucker”, featuring Tom Golden and Vincent McGovern

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown,” featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Along with my co-host “A Male Space”, I was especially pleased to interview Mike Buchanan on The Mansplainers. Mike is the founder and head of Justice for Men and Boys, Britain’s foremost group and first political party advocating for men. Having spoken at their conference several times, I know that J4MB brings together some powerful minds (some of whom we have already interviewed on The Mansplainers).

This is Part I of our interview, where Mike reflects on the state of the men's movement, why men's advocacy groups struggle to gain political traction, and how media institutions shape public perceptions of men's issues. He is also the author of numerous books and articles on family law, public policy, and men’s rights advocacy.

Topics we discuss in Part I:
• the history of Justice for Men and Boys
• why men's political movements rhave seldom succeeded so far
• mainstream media coverage of men's issues
• the rise of alternative media and independent platforms
• figures like Andrew Tate and public awareness of men's concerns
• why increased awareness has not translated into meaningful reform
• the challenges facing modern men's advocacy

Please listen, “like”, comment, share, reflect — and act.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are not always easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study (involving, yes, many man-hours), and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in angry, combative tones – well, just remember that venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#18: “Men’s Issues: Challenges”, featuring Mike Buchanan (Part I)

#17: “Is Sexual Freedom Destroying Civilization?” featuring William Collins (a.k.a. Rick Bradford)

#16: “Beyond Tucker”, featuring Tom Golden and Vincent McGovern

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown,” featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Here we discuss his recent article on J.D. Unwin, and other social scientists who argue for a connection between the sexual dynamics and permissiveness of a society and its health and longevity.

If you are not familiar with Unwin, this interview provides a good introduction. His classic book, Sex and Culture (1934) meticulously documented his argument that civilizational health and longevity are determined by the dynamics of sexual restraint versus sexual freedom. Enforced sexual constraints always lead to a thriving culture, Unwin concluded, whereas increasing sexual freedom always leads to the collapse of a culture in about one century. Unwin also found that the clearest correlation with a flourishing culture and civilization was pre-marital chastity, especially for women. A political-ideological dynamic also operates, in which sexual license always correlates with “female emancipation”.

This article touched an especially sensitive nerve with me, because I am planning a new book on the connection between feminist ideology and civilizational decline.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are not always easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study (involving, yes, many man-hours), and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in angry, combative tones – well, just remember that venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#16: “Beyond Tucker”, featuring Tom Golden and Vincent McGovern

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown,” featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Below is a link to our previous show on a similar topic, with Rick Bradford, along with a little more on the background.

Originally posted, 8 May 2026:

The Mansplainers, Episode #14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, with Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

We were recently treated to an indulgent spectacle. Tucker Carlson had long been sending mixed signals about the fatherhood crisis. On the one hand, it is clearly important to him, and he often slipped little asides about fathers and fatherhood into his commentaries. Yet he never investigated it properly, and in several peculiar interviews, he and his guests had seemed to minimize or ignore its causes in favor of blaming fathers and men themselves for a crisis that is clearly inflicted on them, along with the rest of us, by a hideous abuse of government power.

But his recent, supposed documentary, ”Fathers Wanted”, removes all doubt, and it is a understatement to say that he still has not investigated it properly. The film is a throwback to the useless and counterproductive “fatherhood” programs of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations and to the untruths disseminated by their media watchdogs-cum-lapdogs. (The programs were recently resurrected by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.)

In an article, I had already refuted both this film and a video interview Carlson made with the film’s producer.

But given Carlson’s influence (perhaps deserved on some topics), we thought it important to give more attention to this while it is still timely. No one is better suited to help us than our already-scheduled guest Rick Bradford. (We plan to have him on again to discuss his own work, such as his important book, The Illustrated Empathy Gap.)

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc. — and especially share. This deserves widespread outrage.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos will consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are often not easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study, involving thousands of man-hours, and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in outraged tones – well, venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown,” featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

• declining economic opportunities and leverage for young men

• the transformation of education into debt-driven credentialing

• the weakening of male social and professional networks

• the collapse of stable courtship and family formation structure

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos will consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are often not easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study, involving thousands of man-hours, and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in outraged tones – well, venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#15: “Male Atomization, Feminism, and Social Breakdown”, featuring Curt Doolittle

#14: “A Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary,” featuring Rick Bradford

#13: “The Gentleman v The Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle With Authority” (a discussion about The Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”), featuring “The Heroes’ Forge”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Yet they have time to come up with this cockamamie scheme, which simply perpetuates the failed policies of previous administrations going back at least to Bill Clinton. Child Support Enforcement is the biggest scam ever perpetrated by US governments, and that is saying something. Governments (in the plural) because it is perpetrated by unconstitutional collusion between the federal government and all state governments, who are making a financial killing (and sometimes a literal one) off broken homes, fatherless children, and all of us who must pay the costs and suffer the consequences. At The Mansplainers, we have devoted several shows to this important topic (below).

Those of us who hoped that the Trump Administration represents a significant break from the past and the Deep State (at least in domestic policy) are disappointed, and all Trump’s supporters should feel betrayed.

Previous Posts

The Child Support Scam

We interviewed today’s most knowledgeable young authority on the child support enforcement system, who confirms a recent report in the Wall Street Journal alleging extensive corruption.

Stephen Baskerville

Originally posted March 4, 2026

Connected with my recent post on corruption in the child support system (below) — the latest interview in our new podcast series features Shah (of the “This is Shah” podcast), a top expert:

Even within the Manosphere, ignorance of the child support enforcement machinery is widespread, and many men (and not even necessarily fathers) do not realize how easily they can be imprisoned and made homeless by it — until it happens.

Child support and the feminist gendarmerie that enforces it is government chicanery at its most cynical and proves my contention that feminism today has become little more — and nothing less — than a massive enterprise for putting as many men as possible in prison.

To better understand the importance of Shah’s points, here is a partial list of the horrors that can be inflicted on you by an order to pay child support. All of the following can happen to you regardless of fault and even if you are legally blameless, if you are divorced involuntarily and your spouse deserts you without legal grounds and takes your children:

• You will be forced to pay child support at levels that are generous enough not just to raise children but to entice mothers into divorcing.

• Any arrearage in child support immediately incurs interest and fees that can quickly increase the arrearage manyfold: 10x or more.

• You can be forced to pay additional child support (“add-ons”) for things that are already calculated in the basic child support formula.

• Your child support will not be reduced if you lose your job.

• Your child support will not be reduced if you are called up for active duty in the reserves, and upon returning you can immediately be arrested for any arrearages incurred while serving. If you are taken hostage or prisoner, you are required to pay child support for the time you are captive.

• You can be forced to pay an amount based not on what you earn but on what a judge says you should be earning.

• You can be forced to pay child support for children who live with you full time.

• Temporary income such as bonuses, severance pay, and overtime pay can be used to lock you into increased child support payments permanently.

• You can be ordered to pay an amount of child support that exceeds your income.

• You can be forced to pay for your children after they are adults.

• You can be forced to pay for children that are not yours.

• In some jurisdictions, you can be jailed for proving that the children are not yours.

• You can be forced to pay for children that other men are simultaneously paying for.

• You can be forced to pay child support for children that do not exist, and it by law it cannot be refunded to you.

• If a third party pays your child support for you, that does not count toward your own “obligation,” and you must still pay it. If they give you the money directly, that becomes “income” and can be used to lock you into increased payments.

• The income of your relatives (wife, parents, etc.) can be demanded and assessed in determining your level of child support, and it can be seized.

• If you take out a loan to pay child support, that loan counts as increased “income” and can be used to increase your payments permanently.

• If you are forced to pay too much child support by mistakes made by the enforcement agency, a law prohibits the money from ever being refunded to you.

• Your child support can be increased by orders issued by bureaucrats, as well as judges.

• A minor boy who is raped by an adult woman can be forced to pay her child support. The same is true of an elderly man raped by a younger woman.

• Your grown children can collect child support from you (and the mother if you are still married).

• A man who impregnates your wife and then marries her can collect child support from you.

• You can be forced to pay child support for your stepchildren.

• Your children’s savings can be counted as your income for assessing your level of child support if your name is on their bank account.

• Your name can be published in the newspaper, billboards, pizza boxes, etc., your car can be booted, and your passport, driver’s license, and professional licenses can be confiscated – all without any conviction or proof that you have failed to pay child support.

• There are many times more child support enforcement agents than drug enforcement agents.

• In the US, if you have an arrearage, it is a federal crime to leave your state, even to find work, or even if the mother takes your children to live in a another state.

• Your children’s mother can extort additional payments from you, in addition to the legally required payments, in exchange for letting you see your children.

• Your employer can reduce your wages, knowing that if you quit you will be subject to arrest for nonpayment of child support. They will also keep you away from anything you might steal.

• Child support levels are designed by private collection agencies and set by courts and enforcement agents, not legislatures (i.e., police making laws).

• Higher courts rulings that child support enforcement measures are unconstitutional are simply ignored with impunity by enforcement agencies.

• If you are incarcerated for nonpayment of child support, you will not likely go to a prison (where you would have access to a clinic, library, recreational facilities, etc.), but instead to a chain gang or labor camp, with a reduced life expectancy.

• Upon release you will be unemployable and homeless.

Please listen to Shah explain this totalitarian system. Then “like”, comment, and subscribe.

These points and more are documented in my book, Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family, chapter 3, and other works.

Who Really Stole Your Children?

Your former wife? Lawyers? A judge? Social workers? Think again. The entire US government and your state government are in on it, making a fast buck by snatching your kids and millions of others.

Stephen Baskerville

Originally posted February 14, 2026

The Wall Street Journal recently admitted that the child support system is part of a massive corrupt government operation. The Journal details multiple instances of corruption throughout the welfare system (and men should be paying attention to welfare policy, dreary as it is, because it was the first bastion of government misandry). But the most corrupt, cynical, and destructive sector of welfare is Child Support Enforcement. The “slush fund” mentioned in the Journal’s headline is provided by your child support payments, plus dollars from all taxpayers, and it funds numerous government operations. It gives government functionaries a vested interest in seizing your children and millions of others, destroying their lives by keeping them away from their fathers as much as possible, and using them as hostages to force their fathers to pay the child support that funds government operations. The corruption is not limited to the welfare machinery itself (as the WSJ implies) or a few crooked officials; it pervades the entire government, state as well as federal and creates the very problem it claims to solve.

I was the first published author to reveal how this dirty system works 20 years ago in my book, Taken Into Custody, and in a scholarly article, “From Welfare State to Police State”, but others were blowing the whistle before me. Now we are vindicated in the mainstream media.

Incidentally, and even more mind-blowing, this also explains the incessant scolding of the tradcons. When sactimonious conservatives urge young men to “man-up”, get married, and start families, it is not just despite the likelihood of losing your children to the divorce machine — along with your income, savings, home, driver’s and professional licenses, and freedom — it enables the machine to take them. When Senator Josh Hawley publishes a book entitled, Manhood, offering men wholesome advice about the joys of family, he may have other motives than the “family values” he claims. As a state Attorney General (a stepping stone to higher office like his Senate seat), Hawley was the official in charge of maximizing revenue from child support collections. Your children, income, and involuntary divorce all helped Attorney General Hawley and his 49 counterparts fill their states’ coffers. (Precisely how is explained in my previous Substack post, Josh Hawley Scolds Us”, below.)

So add child support enforcement to the smorgasbord of techniques available to governments to surreptitiously conjure up (out of our pockets) money they do not have to pay for programs no one wants and benefit constituencies no one likes: taxation, money-printing, inflation — and now bribing mothers to divorce and rip children from their fathers, so that state officials like Josh Hawley can loot their patrimony.

Thanks to Bruce Eden for bringing the WSJ article to my attention.

Josh Hawley Scolds Us

In the supreme act of treachery, Republicans grandstand over the family while endeavoring to destroy it.

Stephen Baskerville

January 25, 2023

Dissident conservatives see Senator Josh Hawley as one of the good guys.  Not a radical Democrat nor a “RINO” Republican, Hawley objected to the certification of Joe Biden’s election in 2020, which he considered stolen, and voted to acquit Donald Trump in both impeachment proceedings, which he called a kangaroo court. 

But if we really want to understand the depravity of American politics, and why it has succumbed to the control of the far Left – and, moreover, if we want to do something constructive about it – then we cannot ignore the subterfuges of politicians like Hawley.   

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Hawley takes American men to task, telling them to man up, get married, and start a family.  “We need them to go get married, have families, and be responsible husbands and fathers,” he feels the need to tell them.  “This society is impoverished because too many young men are too despairing, are too checked out on social media or porn to be doing what we need them to be doing.”  Wholesome stuff, no doubt.  

Well, no actually.  Hawley’s moralizing reflects the most destructive trend in America today.

Shocking as it may sound, it is no exaggeration to say that Hawley is part of a devious political machine whose aim, in fact, is nothing less than to destroy American families in huge numbers.  It is two-faced politicians like Hawley, more than anything, that enables the machine to accomplish its aims.

Conspiracy theory?  How many times have we heard that lately?  Do we want to understand why the far Left took control of the United States government, or do we want to wag our fingers at the bad guys?  We either accept incontrovertible facts, or we do not.

Of course, the left attacks Hawley, and Aaron Renn has already criticized him from what might be called the thoughtful conservative perspective.  Renn sees Hawley as well-intentioned but misinformed.  I will be less charitable.  More is going on here than meets the eye.  And Hawley is guilty of more than self-righteous grandstanding.

First, Senator Hawley needs to hold his tongue and see to his own responsibilities.  We do not elect US senators to scold us.  We elect them to run the government, and when that government abuses its power, we expect them to correct it.  This case involves perhaps the most evil government machinery ever devised in the United States, but rather than make any effort to fix it, the Senator tries to divert attention from his own complicity and blame, not his fellows from the political class, but ordinary Americans who cannot defend themselves:

Somebody’s got to be honest and tell the truth to these young men. And the truth is that what the porn industry is selling them is a total lie. And the truth is, American society needs them. We need them to step up. …  It’s time to call…young men, to be something more. …  Somebody needs to tell them the truth.

Somebody needs to tell the truth, all right.  But the Senator prefers to wag his finger.  

The truth is that young men fail – actually, they quite deliberately and predictably refuse – to follow this unrequested advice because getting married and starting a family for men can easily become a one-way ticket to jail, poverty, and homelessness.

The moment a man has a child he loses all his constitutional rights.  Because of unilateral and involuntary divorce laws, his children can be taken from him by state functionaries through literally “no fault” of his own.  Without having committed any legal transgression, he can be prohibited from seeing them – ever – on pain of summary incarceration.  His home, bank accounts, and all other assets can be confiscated, also summarily, and he can be forced to pay unlimited amounts – yes, amounts exceeding his salary – as “child support” to the people who have stolen his children.  If he is unable, he is again liable to indefinite incarceration without trial, in which case he will never have a salary again, and he will never escape from the penal system.  If he is falsely accused of “child abuse” or “domestic violence” (standard scams to rationalize separating fathers from their children), he is further liable to being evicted from his home and incarcerated without any semblance of due process of law.  But he will not be jailed forever.  Eventually he will be released onto the streets, where he will remain.

I have provided overwhelming evidence for all this elsewhere.  But proving it is unnecessary, because no one denies it (and comments under the YouTube video fully bear me out).  Like the Senator, the political class simply ignores it.

It gets worse.  Diabolically, government officials like Hawley themselves have financial incentives to tear as many fathers as possible away from their children and make sure they stay away. 

His state, like all states, fills its coffers by collecting “child support.”  To collect it, the government must first separate as many children as possible from their fathers.  This is done by the welfare agencies and family courts, who share the spoils.  So if pesky legislators cut off the money or reduce taxes, child support will still supply plenty of revenue to sprinkle around.  “If the state needs more highway funding,” writes one commentator, accurately, “all they need to do is raise the state’s level of child support and they can spend their resulting welfare incentive increases on highway projects and remain in perfect compliance with the relevant programs funding requirements.”  

Single-parent homes and fatherless children are enormously lucrative for state governments and politicians like Hawley (including Republican ones), incentivizing them to encourage as much divorce and create as many fatherless children as possible.  Ratcheting up child-support awards to extortionate levels has the double effect of increasing the lucrative revenue stream and offering an irresistible bribe to entice single-mothers-to-be into filing for divorce.  For fathers, it has the added effect of sending them straight to jail when they cannot pay the impossible sums.

Would you marry and have children under these circumstances?  Of course not, which is why the men are refusing, and no amount of scolding will persuade them.

Child support enforcement has repeatedly been exposed as a dishonest and destructive bureaucratic boondoggle that creates the very problem it claims to solve by encouraging more fatherless homes with all the social pathologies that ensue.  The system has been plagued with numerous ethical improprieties, conflicts of interest, and scandals, including criminal fraud, as well as for its unconstitutional and authoritarian practices that violate Americans’ constitutional rights.  Advertised as a program to provide for children whose fathers have “abandoned” them, the reality is a system where “a father is forced to finance the filching of his own children.”

It is inconceivable that Hawley does not know all about this.  Like most politicians, he is a lawyer and judicial entrepreneur.  Most important, he is former attorney general of Missouri.  The office of state attorney general is the highest law enforcement official and a steppingstone to higher office.  Famed reporter John Gizzi of Human Events once wrote a scathing article (since taken down) on how this office corrupts both Democrats and Republicans.

Attorneys general oversee the divorce and child support machineries.  Their job is to use the penal system to maximize the revenue that the state receives from tearing children away from their fathers.  A cynic might suspect the Senator of urging more men to marry and have children so that their subsequent involuntary divorces will supply further bounty for Missouri and its functionaries. 

Tucker Carlson normally shows more discernment than this, though if he did probe this abuse forthrightly he would quickly be shown the door by Fox News.

To rub salt a bit further into our wounds, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is another engineer of the machine.  DeSantis recently signed a breathtakingly dishonest bill that claimed to “restore fatherhood.”  In fact, the law is a throwback to Clinton-era programs that, far from returning children to their fathers, would make sure they stay apart, while subjecting them to feminist-approved psychotherapy to make them more like mothers and, you guessed it, collect more child-support. 

Florida’s legislature approves this because, like every state house in America, it is controlled by lawyers, with a heavy contingent of divorce lawyers from both parties who have no desire to bring the divorce epidemic under control.  Like Missouri, Florida is filling its coffers off the backs of fatherless children.

A more ruthless family-destruction machinery could hardly be devised – replete with the financial payments that co-opt and corrupt potential opposition groups.  It is why – decade after decade – the fatherhood crisis never abates but only worsens.

As always, government programs create the problem they claim to be solving, enriching and “empowering” welfare apparatchiks.  Yet conservative Republicans readily sign on.

Finally, this also provides the model for today’s bureaucratic takeover of the US government.  The far-left insurrections of 2020 were overwhelmingly driven by rebellious, dysfunctional, and fatherless adolescents, who have been effectively raised by the functionaries of the welfare state.  This is every bit as irrational as Covid lockdowns, lethal injections, and avoidable wars in Ukraine, and it probably accounts for them.

With friends like Hawley and DeSantis, the family hardly needs enemies. 

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Political Studies at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw.  He has served on Virginia’s Child Support Guideline Review Panel and is the author of The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Government Power (2017), and Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family (2007), where the points in this article are documented. 

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

But his recent, supposed documentary, ”Fathers Wanted”, removes all doubt, and it is a understatement to say that he still has not investigated it properly. The film is a throwback to the useless and counterproductive “fatherhood” programs of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations and to the untruths disseminated by their media watchdogs-cum-lapdogs. (The programs were recently resurrected by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.)

In an article, I had already refuted both this film and a video interview Carlson made with the film’s producer.

But given Carlson’s influence (perhaps deserved on some topics), we thought it important to give more attention to this while it is still timely. No one is better suited to help us than our already-scheduled guest Rick Bradford. (We plan to have him on again to discuss his own work, such as his important book, The Illustrated Empathy Gap.)

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc. — and especially share. This deserves widespread outrage.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos will consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are often not easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study, involving thousands of man-hours, and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in outraged tones – well, venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#14: “Response to Tucker Carlson’s Fatherhood Documentary”, featuring Rick Bradford (a.k.a. the author William Collins)

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority”, featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing “A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

For those not familiar with it, this book is a modern update on an old genre. Advice books for men date back to the Renaissance and beyond, and they exist because they are needed. They often contain timeless wisdom, but a new version was needed to help today’s aspiring gentleman navigate the world of feminism, misandry, and the devaluation of masculinity — not to mention the imperative (one we usually hear only coming from hostile quarters) to improve ourselves. Frankly, it also aims to fill a gap that is largely missing from the “Manosphere”.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc…

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos will consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are often not easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study, involving thousands of man-hours, and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in outraged tones – well, venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#13: “The Gentleman v the Nice Guy: Why Men Struggle with Authority,” featuring The Heroes’ Forge discussing The Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

This is our second time hosting Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”. Last time we focused on “The Child Support Scam”, on which Shah is a recognized expert. In this episode, we discuss his research into the history of marriage economics: specifically, difference between dowry v. bride price, monogamy v. polygamy, and more.

Shah breaks down research on how different marriage systems correlate with monogamy, polygyny, divorce rates, agricultural development, and economic complexity. We also examine how inheritance patterns, primogeniture, and property rights shaped marriage structures in Europe and beyond. The conversation then turns to modern implications, including the shift toward love-based marriage, no-fault divorce, and increasing individualism in Western societies, and how these changes may influence long-term social cohesion and family formation.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc.

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos will consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are often not easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study, involving thousands of man-hours, and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in outraged tones – well, venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#13: “A Discussion about The Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World”, featuring Mike Richter, forthcoming

#12: “Monogamy v Polygamy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of “This Is Shah”

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court, & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Here again, not a word about destructive, predatory government. Every other commentary he produces describes some defective government action that needs our attention: wars in Iran and Ukraine, immigration, censorship, civil liberties, the economy. And quite rightly. The first job of a journalist is to keep the state accountable. But not when it comes to destroying fathers and fatherhood (along with the US Constitution). State officials are safely beyond scrutiny.

When they do get around to discussing the state, about halfway through, there is still no mention of family or fatherhood or welfare policy. “The politicians don’t want to hear about it,” Shilling says. “They definitely don’t want to talk about it.” In fact, the politicans are keen to hear vapid bewailing about fatherlessness, and they sponsor numerous programs, as long as it is clear that the fathers are to blame. (See my previous post, below.)

As Tom Golden says, the crisis of fatherhood makes for good propaganda so long as it is clear that the causes are reducible to male behavior.

No responsibility rests with government policymakers or functionaries, none with the feminists who created the welfare and divorce machines whose purpose was to eliminate unwanted fathers. In fact, the only mention of divorce, aside from lamenting and bemoaning it, is to say that it is a matter of men “stiffing” their wives (though vitually 100% of divorces involving children are filed by mothers).

He even has the audacity to say (37:36) that “There is no right to take children away from their parents.” What planet does he live on?

All this presents a challenge and an opportunity.

I propose that we use these films as a “hook” to launch a major challenge to Carlson and other tradcons like him: We raise a major outcry about this and force them to debate us on fatherhood issues. They can only lose.

No issue is more important or more central to everything — literally everything — in the “Manosphere” than fatherhood. Monopoly control of reproduction is the feminists’ central goal, and everything else follows from it. This gives them the leverage to intimidate and emasculate men and achieve everything else on their agenda. It is how they force men onto the feminine turf: repetitive chit-chat, fruitless gossip, pointless he-said/she-said, therapy sessions, expressing “feelings,” and endless complaining about things the are helpless to remedy — all of which preoccupies too much of the Manosphere and paralyzes us all. The way to cut the Gordian Knot is to end the feminist/female control over reproduction through truly restoring fatherhood — real fathehood: father custody of children. This was the insight of the most brilliant scholar ever to address these issues: Daniel Amneus. “A woman’s right to have a baby without having the father around is what feminism is all about,” he wrote.

The linchpin in the feminist program is mother custody following divorce. Pull that pin…and the feminist structure collapses. … Until then, men must remain afraid of women, of marriage, of feminism.

The rest is empty, futile chatter.

These two films are a middle finger to everyone who has ever had their children stolen by the corrupt divorce courts and to every man who knows he can never become a father knowing the certain degradation that would await him. Please forward this message to as mnay people as you know, and let’s collect ideas on how to respond to this.

* Such well-funded groups are a-dime-a-dozen (or a few million each). A sample::

• National Fatherhood Initiative

• Fatherhood Institute

• Focus on the Family

• Family Research Council

• National Marriage Project

• National Organization for Marriage

• Alliance for Marriage

• National Council on Family Relations

• International Organization for the Family

• Center for American Values

They have all had exactly zero success in preventing or impeding the ongoing decline of fatherhood, families, and marriage, or connected problems like child abuse, truancy, educational decline, crime, substance abuse…

[Original post:]

It is truly sad to see Tucker Carlson producing this kind of vapid drivel. Many people admire Carlson, and his influence is enormous. But this is beyond belief.

Carlson just released a new video: “Fathers Wanted”. It may be a tribute to his sense of shame that he refrains from narrating it himself, and he seems to make only two appearances. One (54:00) is to scold fathers for “abandoning” their children.

This is a throwback to the 1990s/2000s. For those too young to remember, we were inundated with propaganda about “responsible” fatherhood and “good fathering”. The underlying message was that most fathers are ir-reponsible and their “fathering” needs improvement. But the insult added to injury was precisely the falsehood that Carlson reserves for himself to utter: Fathers whose children are confiscated by crooked tyrannical family courts have “abandoned” them.

Vice-President Al Gore initiated a White House program, and many state governors and even foreign governments followed suit: conferences, books, articles, films, TV shows — all filled with the same sentimental cliches and empty platitudes as Carlson’s video, scolding and nagging men to practice their officially accepted version of this “fathering”. (Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently displayed similar dishonesty by recycling the deception.) Federally funded scholars like David Blankenhorn and David Popenoe produced books touting the party line. The media credulously joined the witch hunt. We heard no objections from anyone (except feminists, ironically and perfunctorily), though of course fathers themselves were never allowed to be heard — as they are not in Carlson’s film.

None of the “fatherhood advocates” explained how government officials could “promote” fatherhood or “encourage” good fathering — or (another theme) “reconnect fathers with their children”. It turned out that “good fathering” meant feminist-approved fathering and feminist psychotherapy, and “reconnecting” with your children meant paying child support.

Meanwhile governments intensified ongoing efforts to disconnect more children from their fathers in order to fill their coffers with more child support. President Bill Clinton’s “Welfare Reform” tried (in vain) to reduce the welfare roles by “cracking down” on alleged “deadbeat dads”. Here too the media showed credulity rather than scepticism or scrutiny toward the government. Journalist Bernard Goldberg said, “We’ve done a million stories at the networks on deadbeats dads…but almost none on how too many divorced women use custody and visitation as weapons to punish their ex-husbands.” And absolutely zero on how family court judges were ripping millions of children away from fit and legally innocent fathers in order to plunder them for the “child support” that was really judge support, because it funded their own salaries and those of other functionaries.

This, not fathers “abandoning” their children, is the cause of this crisis — entirely.

Now, according to Carlson, fathers are to blame even when they are not fathers, because they refuse to marry unappealing, litigious women and find their children judicially kidnapped by juridical gangsters. The message is the same: Fathers cause problems when they are present, when they are “absent”, and even when they are never fathers in the first place. And still not a word about the corruption of family courts or injustices of the divorce industry.

It is hardly surprising that, 30 years on, the problem is worse than ever, because those programs could never do anything other than make it worse. Even amid Covid, election rigging, multiple forever wars, and impending economic catastrophe, former gang leader John Turnipseed still calls fatherlessness “the biggest problem we have in the nation”, and Jason Whitlock, Candace Owens, and Larry Elder say the same. (DeSantis recently showed, yet again, how to evade and worsen it.)

This should provoke a major outcry from throughout the “Manosphere”. If men can coalesce around rejection of this lie, this film may do some good in getting the abuses that Carlson avoids onto the public agenda.

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This is by far the most dishonest and cowardly thing I have ever seen from Tucker Carlson.

I have criticized him repeated for his dishonesty on this topic and for his obvious fear of the divorce industry. But until now, I have tried to be charitable. He has long given indications that this topic interests him deeply. Little asides in his commentaries, hinting at things he dares not say. On other other hand, I happen to know that he is well aware of the real cause of this ongoing crisis, but like the rest of the mainstream media he chooses mendacity instead of truth.

By this, he signals that he is part of the problem: pretending to address a problem by blaming those who suffer under it because you fear offending those who are perpetrating it.

I have also published numerous articles about this dirty scam in mainstream and scholarly journals, as well as my books, starting with Taken Into Custody: The War on Fathers, Marriage, and the Family:

• “Is There Really a Fatherhood Crisis?” www.independent.org/tir/2004-spring/is-there-really-a-fatherhood-crisis/

• “The Failure of Fatherhood Policy” www.lewrockwell.com/2004/09/stephen-baskerville/the-failure-of-fatherhood-policy/

• “The Federal Bureau of Marriage” www.academia.edu/34065959/The_Federal_Bureau_of_Marriage

Sadly, none of these are out of date, because nothing has changed, except for the worse.

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Carlson just released a new video: “Fathers Wanted”. It may be a tribute to his sense of shame that he refrains from narrating it himself, and he seems to make only two appearances. One (54:00) is to scold fathers for “abandoning” their children.

This is a throwback to the 1990s/2000s. For those too young to remember, we were inundated with propaganda about “responsible” fatherhood and “good fathering”. The underlying message was that most fathers are ir-reponsible and their “fathering” needs improvement. But the insult added to injury was precisely the falsehood that Carlson reserves for himself to utter: Fathers whose children are confiscated by crooked tyrannical family courts have “abandoned” them.

Vice-President Al Gore initiated a White House program, and many state governors and even foreign governments followed suit: conferences, books, articles, films, TV shows — all filled with the same sentimental cliches and empty platitudes as Carlson’s video, scolding and nagging men to practice their officially accepted version of this “fathering”. (Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently displayed similar dishonesty by recycling the deception.) Federally funded scholars like David Blankenhorn and David Popenoe produced books touting the party line. The media credulously joined the witch hunt. We heard no objections from anyone (except feminists, ironically and perfunctorily), though of course fathers themselves were never allowed to be heard — as they are not in Carlson’s film.

None of the “fatherhood advocates” explained how government officials could “promote” fatherhood or “encourage” good fathering — or (another theme) “reconnect fathers with their children”. It turned out that “good fathering” meant feminist-approved fathering and feminist psychotherapy, and “reconnecting” with your children meant paying child support.

Meanwhile governments intensified ongoing efforts to disconnect more children from their fathers in order to fill their coffers with more child support. President Bill Clinton’s “Welfare Reform” tried (in vain) to reduce the welfare roles by “cracking down” on alleged “deadbeat dads”. Here too the media showed credulity rather than scepticism or scrutiny toward the government. Journalist Bernard Goldberg said, “We’ve done a million stories at the networks on deadbeats dads…but almost none on how too many divorced women use custody and visitation as weapons to punish their ex-husbands.” And absolutely zero on how family court judges were ripping millions of children away from fit and legally innocent fathers in order to plunder them for the “child support” that was really judge support, because it funded their own salaries and those of other functionaries.

This, not fathers “abandoning” their children, is the cause of this crisis — entirely.

Now, according to Carlson, fathers are to blame even when they are not fathers, because they refuse to marry unappealing, litigious women and find their children judicially kidnapped by juridical gangsters. The message is the same: Fathers cause problems when they are present, when they are “absent”, and even when they are never fathers in the first place. And still not a word about the corruption of family courts or injustices of the divorce industry.

It is hardly surprising that, 30 years on, the problem is worse than ever, because those programs could never do anything other than make it worse. Even amid Covid, election rigging, multiple forever wars, and impending economic catastrophe, former gang leader John Turnipseed still calls fatherlessness “the biggest problem we have in the nation”, and Jason Whitlock, Candace Owens, and Larry Elder say the same. (DeSantis recently showed, yet again, how to evade and worsen it.)

This should provoke a major outcry from throughout the “Manosphere”. If men can coalesce around rejection of this lie, this film may do some good in getting the abuses that Carlson avoids onto the public agenda.

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This is by far the most dishonest and cowardly thing I have ever seen from Tucker Carlson.

I have criticized him repeated for his dishonesty on this topic and for his obvious fear of the divorce industry. But until now, I have tried to be charitable. He has long given indications that this topic interests him deeply. Little asides in his commentaries, hinting at things he dares not say. On other other hand, I happen to know that he is well aware of the real cause of this ongoing crisis, but like the rest of the mainstream media he chooses mendacity instead of truth.

By this, he signals that he is part of the problem: pretending to address a problem by blaming those who suffer under it because you fear offending those who are perpetrating it.

I have also published numerous articles about this dirty scam in mainstream and scholarly journals, as well as my books, starting with Taken Into Custody: The War on Fathers, Marriage, and the Family:

• “Is There Really a Fatherhood Crisis?” www.independent.org/tir/2004-spring/is-there-really-a-fatherhood-crisis/

• “The Failure of Fatherhood Policy” www.lewrockwell.com/2004/09/stephen-baskerville/the-failure-of-fatherhood-policy/

• “The Federal Bureau of Marriage” www.academia.edu/34065959/The_Federal_Bureau_of_Marriage

Sadly, none of these are out of date, because nothing has changed, except for the worse.

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc…

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos will consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are often not easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study, involving thousands of man-hours, and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in outraged tones – well, venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#12: “Polygamy versus Monogaphy: Marriage Systems Explained”, featuring Shah, creator of This Is Shah, forthcoming

#11: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court & the Crisis of Marriage”, featuring Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

Please “like”, comment, share, reflect, etc…

The Mansplainers is a new podcast series where we discuss issues involving men and women, family, sex (“gender” if I must), plus the legal-political context in which we must now understand them — all in ways that will push you to think outside the box and sometimes outside your comfort zone. Our videos will consist of discussions, debates, essays, and interviews with some of the best minds confronting these questions today.

These issues are now exploding everywhere, and our aim is to separate the chaff from the wheat, the noise from the essence, the complaining from the constructive, and give you what you need to know.

We make no apology for the name. We are men, talking (mostly) with men and for men, and we will do our best to explain matters that sometimes seem to defy explanation and even belief. We are also not afraid to listen to men explain to us, when they know more than we do. Questions involving romance, sexuality, family deterioration, family politics, and connected matters are often not easy to understand. We and our guests have spent years and even decades of study, for some of us professional and academic study, involving thousands of man-hours, and writing and publishing books and comparable projects. And yet everyday we discover new truths – or new ways to approach old truths – that previously escaped our notice. This is because we want to learn and help others learn, even if they do not have the time to devote to it that we have.

So if you are looking for someone to tell you what you already know, confirm you in your existing opinions, listen to you whinge and whine about all the unfairness you face, or indulge in he-said/she-said gossip – all in outraged tones – well, venting your feelings of distress, while doing nothing to correct the matter, is a feminine trait. You may find little to interest you here, and you are not the type of man that we hope to reach.

At some point, we plan to have a site with all the shows listed and indexed, but in the meantime, he is a list of shows so far, with links to the versions on my YouTube playlist (most recent first):

#11: Forthcoming: “No-Fault Divorce, Family Court & the Crisis of Marriage,” with Bai Macfarlane

#10: “The Male Tax”, featuring Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson

#9: “‘Mommy Issues’ and the Origins of Matriarchy”, featuring Professor Howard Schwartz

#8: “Not Hooking Up!”, featuring F. Roger Devlin

#7: “Conservative Failure”

#6: “The Child Support Scam: Road to Prison”, featuring Shah (of “This is Shah”)

#5: “Masculinity in the Modern West”, featuring Alexander Grace

#4: “Fatherhood Under Attack”, featuring Paul Elam

#3: “Male Betrayal and the Broken Sexual Market”, featuring Raymond (of “Thoughts and Mind”)

#2: “Male Whining?”

#1: “No Filter, No Lies – Just Men’s Truths” featuring Dr. Helen Smith

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.

A bit off-topic for me, so feel free to disagree, but I am drafting an article on the war in Iran, and in this video I present some of the major points I plan to present in order to get feedback. You will find that, for better or worse, my approach to Iran is quite different from any of the standard treatments you have read or heard. I will be grateful indeed for your comments.

Interestingly, one of the best commentaries on international affairs just today raised some issues that demonstrate the relevance of my approach here. Interviewing Joe Kent, the intelligence officer who resigned from the Trump Administration in protest against the war, Alexander Mercouris of The Doran asked two questions that I address in this video:

If you want to read more analysis that will push you to think “outside the box,” you will find it in my recent book, Who Lost America? Why the United States Went “Communist” — and What to Do about It — available from Amazon.

Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics (retired) at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.