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Men are encouraged to be small, weak, emotional, and vulnerable—traits that make them more feminine and easier to control. The modern media, with its feminist and LGBTQ agendas, are major contributors to the erosion of masculinity in younger generations.
Can this anti-nature, anti-God trend be reversed?
Be informed, not misled.
On Monday, PRAGERU published a paid article in Breitbart News with this headline:
"Can We Save America’s Boys? Only If We Teach Them Strength and Purpose."
It's a good article. I recommend you read it.
Here are a few excerpts from the article. I will be talking more about this issue of masculinity on the radio today:
The Boy Scouts of America has officially changed its name to “Scouting America.” Virtually all mentions of the word “boy” have been scrubbed from the updated Scouting America website—even from the timeline detailing the organization’s 1910 founding and historical benchmarks.
Lord Baden-Powell, the original founder of the scouting movement in the early 1900s, modeled his “scouts” after the military. Today, “Scouting America” encourages boys to “do fun things together” in “a welcoming, safe environment where Scouts can freely express themselves.”
In recent years, a growing number of Americans have recognized that boys and men are facing unique challenges—social, emotional, and developmental—that deserve attention and support. Since 2010, teenage boys have experienced a 161 percent increase in depression. Last year, the American Institute for Boys and Men cited that boys are typically one grade level behind girls in English language arts. In 2023, U.S. Census Bureau data revealed that about 18 million American children—roughly one in four—live without an active father in the home.
Public schools have swapped expectations of mental toughness and commendable character for “equitable safe spaces” and “restorative discipline.” Youth sports teams hand out participation trophies in the name of “inclusivity.” The American Library Association openly endorses drag queen story hours for kids. And, until recently, military enlistment in the United States hit an all-time low.
Military recruitment skyrocketed immediately following Trump's election as president.
Trail Life USA has stepped in to fill the void left by the demise of the Boy Scouts.
Trail Life is growing exponentially. Consider it as an alternative for your kids or grandkids. It includes some of the fundamentals the Boy Scouts abandoned. It is also a non-denominational, Christian-based organization that incorporates biblical principles into its materials.
Prager says, "The institutions that once instilled grit and shaped young men into protectors of national stability no longer function as they once did. Historical risk-takers like Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, and John Sutter—figures who advanced our nation’s ideals during America’s formative years—are no longer required in many state education departments. What happens to a nation when it stops teaching toughness?"
When young boys are not taught stories of bold leadership, sacrifice, and perseverance, they risk losing a key part of their identity and cultural inheritance. American exceptionalism, when taught properly, isn’t about arrogance—it’s about understanding the unique ideals that helped build a free and thriving nation. It’s about grit, ingenuity, and the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things through hard work and conviction. For boys in particular, who are often wired to seek challenge, purpose, and a sense of mission, these stories serve as more than just history—they are roadmaps.
Learning about American exceptionalism introduces boys to role models who demonstrated courage in the face of hardship, stood firm in their values, and helped shape a nation through their vision and tenacity.
In a time when young men are often struggling to find meaning or are criticized for natural traits like competitiveness and assertiveness, these lessons about American trailblazers offer a constructive framework to develop responsibility, strength, and integrity.
Teaching toughness through history does not promote aggression—it cultivates discipline, perseverance, and true strength demonstrated through serving others. By reconnecting boys with the legacy of American pioneers, inventors, statesmen, and protectors, we prepare them to become capable, principled men who can lead with strength and make a difference in their communities and their country.
Takeaway
The Left's attack on America leads directly to an attack on manhood.
Some of the following is drawn from a speech given by Sen. Josh Hawley.
For years now, Democrats and other leftists have insisted that American society is systemically oppressive, systemically evil, and unjust. They’ve said it so much and so often that to them, it’s become a truism. It has become the cornerstone of their secular humanistic worldview.
Former President of the United States, Joe Biden, repeatedly referred to America’s “systemic racism.” His Administration loudly called for a new “gender equity” agenda to right the structural injustices of our society.
His nominees advocated critical race theory and training in “equity” for federal workers. Even the military.
Author John Stoltenberg writes that “talking about ‘healthy masculinity’ is like talking about `healthy cancer.’”
Professor Suzanna Walters of Northeastern University says it “seems logical to hate men” unless they “pledge to vote for feminist women only” and “don’t run for office.”
Now, this line of thinking is hardly new. The critical theory of deconstruction dates back to mid-century intellectuals such as Jacques Derrida and Herbert Marcuse, and even further to the Frankfurt School of the 1930s, and ultimately to the work of Marx.
Nor is it new to blame men for society’s ills. Marcuse, in particular, is interesting in this regard. He was one of the leading lights of the 1960s counter-culture, and he thought Marx was right to call western society structurally oppressive, but wrong to see that oppression as principally economic.
No, the really oppressive thing about American society, he said, was culture.
Marcuse concluded the revolution would only come from the well-educated elite, who could see beyond mirages like manhood.
Which brings us to America's Leftists of today.
They have swallowed this theory whole and are delivering this message from every platform where they have influence. Which is most everywhere. And almost all the time.
And while the Left may celebrate this decline of men, we must not join them. No one should.
The crisis of American men is a crisis for the American republic.
The Left is telling America and its men, you’re evil. You’re terrible. You must apologize and submit to your government masters to be reformed.
I suggest we offer a different theme, one that goes like this: America is yet that city on a hill, and the eyes of the world are yet upon us, looking to us for hope.
American men are and can be an unrivaled force for good in the world—if we can strengthen them, if we can empower them, if we can unleash them to be whom God made them to be.
"They shall build up the ancient ruins, they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations" (Is. 64:1).
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.
