mens-issues
Gallup released numbers in April that the secular press has not known what to do with. Among American men ages 18 to 29, monthly or more frequent religious attendance has climbed to 40 percent — the highest level since 2012-2013, and a seven-point jump in just two years. Forty-
mens-health
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 18, 2026 In February, the University of Sydney published a study in Social Science & Medicine warning that "manosphere" influencers on Instagram and TikTok are pushing young men toward unnecessary testosterone testing and therapy. The headline framing was clean: a "masculinity crisis"
mens-issues
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 17, 2026 Every few weeks the headlines warn about it again. Young men aren't enrolling at the rate they used to. The gap between male and female undergraduates has widened to record levels. The framing in nearly every story is the same: men are
ai-girlfriends
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 16, 2026 Last month Fortune warned that teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for “maximum control, zero rejection,” and that this will leave a generation unemployable. The Institute for Family Studies called the same trend “counterfeit connections.” On Valentine’s Day, AI companion
mens-issues
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 15, 2026 Every six months the headlines run the same hand-wringing piece. Boys are falling behind in school. Men make up only 42% of college students. Young men are "in trouble" — disengaged, unmotivated, anxious, vanishing. The diagnosis is always the same. Something is
mens-issues
On May 4, JAMA Pediatrics published the first major study tracking what happens to American fathers in the years after their kids are born. Northwestern researchers followed 130,267 babies born in Georgia in 2017 and looked at how many of their dads were dead five years later. The press
masculinity
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 13, 2026 Mainstream coverage of the “toxic masculinity” research program hit another inflection point this month. Oregon State’s Toxic Masculinity Scale — a 28-item, four-factor instrument designed to clinically measure how much of a man is too much of a man — has now been
Sovereignty OS
It's Mental Health Awareness Month, and the same script is running on every channel: men don't talk, men don't seek help, men die in silence, men have a "treatment gap." The prescription is uniform across outlets — get men into therapy. Break the
Sovereignty OS
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 11, 2026 The Washington Post ran the headline three days ago: "Young and old men are leaving the labor force, fueling a record decline." One in three American men was out of the workforce in April. The frame, predictably, was crisis — sick men, disabled
Sovereignty OS
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 10, 2026 The U.S. Surgeon General calls it an epidemic. The New York Times calls it a public health crisis. Every glossy explainer in your feed agrees that men are lonely because of something inside them — brain chemistry, fragile masculinity, an unwillingness to "open
Sovereignty OS
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 9, 2026 The Institute for Family Studies just dropped its State of Our Unions 2026 report. Only about 30% of young adults are dating. The Washington Post called it a crisis and asked, “What went wrong?” The therapists are calling it a confidence epidemic. The trad-
Sovereignty OS
I spent thirty years in the tech trenches watching an entire generation be told that “learning to code” was the only path to safety. But today, while AI is deleting entry-level software jobs by the thousands, it still can’t fix a burst pipe or wire a data center.
