From the article -- We live in an age of abundance, yet despair continues to spread like a dark cloud. Gen Z has inherited everything — information, access, entertainment — and still feels empty. They scroll, they compare, they perform. They broadcast their lives for strangers but rarely live them. It’s connection without communion, messaging without meaning, motion without purpose. What’s missing isn’t dopamine but direction.
Faith once gave that direction. It didn’t promise ease, only endurance. It gave people something firm to stand on when everything else fell apart. But belief today has been traded for irony. God is a punchline, the church a museum, and the language of the soul has been replaced by the language of self-help. In that silence, something essential has gone missing — the quiet conviction that life, however hard, still matters.
The modern creed tells young people they can be anything. It rarely tells them why they should be anything. They’re told to “find their truth,” though truth itself has become a moving target. They’re told to “love themselves,” though few are shown what love actually requires. So they chase pleasure, mistaking it for peace. They crave attention and confuse it with affection. And when both fade, they fall apart.
Social media has accelerated the slide, but the roots go far deeper. This is more of a spiritual famine than a technological failure. A generation has grown up in a moral vacuum, where families fracture, fathers fade, and faith is dismissed as a delusion for the naïve. A culture that prizes comfort over character can’t sustain the weight of pain. When the soul starves, the mind soon follows.
We’ve raised young people to see themselves as cosmic accidents — clever animals with credit scores, born without purpose and destined for oblivion. It’s little wonder so many view the future as a threat, not an opportunity. Climate anxiety has become the creed of a generation taught to fear its own existence. Greta Thunberg, an infuriating figure I have discussed before, is now the mirror of millions — irritable, impassioned, and neurotic to the point of despair. Her trembling fury, once mistaken for courage, now feels like a diagnosis. She embodies the anxiety that has metastasized through millions of young minds convinced the world is ending before they’ve even begun to live in it. The fear has grown so deep that many twenty-somethings now see procreation not as an act of hope, but of harm. A moral crime against the planet.
3) “Feminism, Feminization Of Institutions, And Cultural Collapse” (Alla Margolina, RVIVR)
From the article -- Andrews argues that this moment—the cancellation of Summers—wasn’t just a skirmish in the culture war. It was a regime change. Not because women were present, but because the method of his downfall was distinctly feminine. Not open conflict, not factual rebuttal—just an overwhelming tide of emotional offense, vibe-check politics, and collective shunning. “I couldn’t breathe,” said one biologist who walked out. And thus began the sacred tradition of treating every intellectual disagreement like a panic attack in progress.
According to Andrews, wokeness isn’t Marxism 2.0 or some clever new ideology. It’s what happens when institutions once dominated by men are slowly overrun by HR culture, emotional arbitration, and a pathological fear of conflict. In short: feminization. The NYT, academia, the courts, medicine, even the sciences -- everywhere you look, feelings now outrank facts, cohesion trumps confrontation, and disagreement is mistaken for violence.
This isn’t about individual women. Andrews herself is one. So is Bari Weiss, who found out the hard way that even moderate wrongthink will get you ghosted by the Slack mob. It’s about group dynamics. Once women hit a critical mass in an institution, it stops operating on the traditional masculine logic of “what’s true” and starts shifting toward “how does everyone feel about this?” And once that shift happens, there’s no going back.
Excellent related articles: “Did The Great Feminization Cause The Great Awokening? The short answer is yes. The question then becomes what then must we do?” (Sasha Stone)...“The Great Feminization” (Helen Andrews, Compact)
4) “Why Male Teachers Left Elementary Schools and Won’t Go Back” (Scott Yenor, Federalist)
From the article -- Men are disappearing from the education landscape in America. In 1970, about 30 percent of America’s elementary teachers were male; by 2021, the number had dipped to 11 percent. Similar or even steeper drops happened at middle and high school levels. The absence of men creates a harmful imbalance in how America’s children are educated. Men, however, did not depart willingly. They were driven out by the increasing feminization of schools, producing a vicious cycle of female-dominated schools.
Many blame exodus on male pride. Education, especially elementary education, is, critics say, “female coded.” Teachers earn less. Jobs in elementary education are not thought to be masculine enough. “We need to break down the gender stereotypes preventing men entering these large, high-growth job sectors” like education, argues the Brookings Institution’s Richard Reeves and others. Teachers, in fact, are paid more today than they were in 1970, in inflation-adjusted dollars. And “stereotypes” (if such they are) were arguably much stronger in 1970 than today.
Feminist ideology and the spiritual dominance of women (what author Helen Andrews calls “the great feminization”) in elementary education dissuades men from even considering work in elementary education. It turns out, not surprisingly, that men make rational decisions in the face of feminized institutions like elementary schools.
5) “How the Church of England betrayed its loyal flock” (Daniel Jupp, TCW)
From the article -- The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (also known as Gafcon) represent the Anglican faith in Africa. Their response was to declare publicly that they would no longer send delegates to Church meetings in the United Kingdom, no longer consider the Archbishop of Canterbury as first among equals or a seat of authority to which they deferred, and no longer consider themselves in the same communion as the Bishops and clergy of the Church of England within England. Perhaps even more tellingly, they asserted that they were the true Anglican communion, more loyal to the instructions of the Bible and Anglican interpretation of those than priests in England. There’s a subtle but powerful distinction there – they were saying not that they had broken away from an Anglican vision of Biblical instruction and Christian identity but that the Church in England had done so.
African Anglicans now assert that they are the true Anglicans, and that the organisation within the UK is not. And in terms of the number of people who follow their message, they are right to assert this.
In losing the African churches and the global, more conservative branch of Anglicanism, the Church of England has lost 80 per cent of Anglicans on the planet. Imagine a company that lost 80 per cent of its customers. Or a political party that lost 80 per cent of its voters. Or a nation state that lost 80 per cent of its territory. These would in each case be recognised as unmitigated disasters.
Other Excellent Reads from this Week:
* “The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’ -- America again flirts with its own Bleeding Kansas, a cycle of partisan violence and defiance where lawless zealots are hailed as patriots and the rule of law bleeds away.” (Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness)
* “Political Bias at Wikipedia and in AI” (John Sexton, Hot Air)
* “Mexican Cartel Killed Pregnant Women to Harvest Babies and Organs for U.S. Buyers” (Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby, Breitbart)
* “The Slippery Slopes of Assisted Suicide and Abortion” (Chuck Donovan, Washington Stand)
* “Teachers’ Union Sues to Save...Illegal Alien Truck Drivers?” (David Strom, Hot Air)
