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America Feels Like It’s Falling Apart. We Can Still Save It. - 500K Subscriber Special Aug 15, 2026

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Thank you to all 500K+ subscribers to Dad Saves America!

This show began in response to the mental health crisis I saw emerging among my son’s peers. Then COVID lockdowns hit and turned my worst-case predictions into reality. Now, socialism is sweeping the Democratic Party and young women are marching in support of Hamas, all while social media continues to poison the minds of our kids.

As I like to say, the 1990s were the peak of Western civilization. The Cold War had been won, the economy was relatively stable, and our politics didn’t feel existential. Most importantly, both parties agreed that America was fundamentally good.

That consensus is dead. If the next generation no longer believes in the system that built the world they’ll inherit, what comes next?

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We Stopped Disciplining Kids. Now They’re Destroying Civilization. - Katharine Birbalsingh Aug 14, 2026

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I sat down with Katharine Birbalsingh, headmistress of Michaela Community School and the UK’s most outspoken voice on education, to mark the launch of our new YouTube collaboration, Strictly Education. Katharine runs one of the strictest schools in the UK, for mostly disadvantaged students from immigrant families, and gets some of the best results in the country. Her solution to the failure of modern schooling isn’t about funding, racial politics, or experimenting with radical teaching methods. It’s discipline, structure, and a return to the values our grandparents understood instinctively.

We get into:

* Why shame, done right, is essential to raising well behaved kids

* How gentle parenting and white guilt are burning down Western civilization

* Why the left refuses to try proven solutions in education

* The consequences of failing to teach our true history

* Why AI can never replace the relationship a great teacher builds with a child

* Her case for government intervention regarding social media and smartphones

* The vision behind Strictly Education and why she wanted to team up with Dad Saves America

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My first interview with Katharine: https://youtu.be/uLmb3as-MQc?si=Qfd_7vXHLOcW7ym2

Watch “Strictly Education”: https://youtu.be/UpTqPSSOMn0?si=pUkovSuiHgCs2p0n

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Outline:

[0:00] Why launch Strictly Education?

[15:39] What’s happening to young women?

[20:40] Can free-range parenting work in 2026?

[30:56] What does “culture” actually mean?

[35:49] Bad behavior thrives on attention

[42:46] Why shame is useful in the classroom

[52:43] White guilt is destroying civilization

[1:00:07] Why the left attacks real solutions

[1:08:55] Kids are being lied to about our history

[1:18:26] You can’t teach critical thinking

[1:27:01] Is technology a net-negative in education?

[1:32:06] How do we keep kids off social media?

[1:50:55] Gentle parenting, adulthood, and the death of God

[1:58:05] How should we teach the Western canon?

[2:05:51] We’ve literally dumbed-down education

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The Democratic Socialists Have a Working Class Problem Aug 07, 2026

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Socialist Abdul El-Sayed just won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, but the exit polls tell the real story. He dominated in college towns and lost badly in the working class neighborhoods he claims to represent. The same pattern played out in Zohran Mamdani's election.

The socialists calling themselves the voice of the working class have never done a day of physical labor in their lives. The working class knows it, and they're not buying it. So who's this “working class” movement actually for?

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The Manosphere Is Only a Half-Answer for Young Men - Nick Freitas Aug 06, 2026

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I sat down with Nick Freitas, veteran, fellow podcaster, and author of “The Manbook,” to talk about what it actually means to be a man in the aftermath of the woke revolution. In recent years, manosphere figures like Andrew Tate have arisen as an answer for young men who feel cast out at school, at work, and in mainstream culture. Their message takes legitimate grievances and points them in unhealthy directions. Nick advocates for a different answer: biblical masculinity.

We get into:

* What masculinity is really all about

* The moment Nick’s co-host changed the way he gives advice

* Why conservatives aren’t getting through to radicalized young men

* What he’s observed raising both a son and daughters

* How he and his wife built a successful marriage and family

* Why Christianity gets results, even if you can’t see it yet

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Outline:

[0:00] What does it mean to be a man?

[2:59] How can we speak effectively to young men?

[16:56] The woke revolution in corporate America

[30:19 30:22] Compassion has become victimhood worship

[38:30] Is ideology downstream of technology?

[47:22] Men blame objects and women blame themselves

[55:45] How do we protect girls from bad influences?

[1:05:58] Gen Z’s expectations are off

[1:15:09] Are we overthinking our problems?

[1:22:38] Marriage is hard because life is hard

[1:36:10] Cause and effect is a good guide to truth

[1:41:45] What does a healthy identity look like?

[1:56:28] Why losing his Congressional election was a blessing

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“I Plead the Fifth”: How Fauci’s Lies Destroyed the Expert Class Jul 31, 2026

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Rand Paul just released Dr. Anthony Fauci's personal diary, more than 1,100 pages stored on government servers, and then made him answer for it before the Senate. Fauci’s response to almost every question was the same. He pleaded the Fifth, over and over again.

But the real story isn’t the diary. It’s what Fauci represents. From funding offshore gain-of-function research, to soliciting cash prizes using federal resources, to the preemptive pardon shielding him from all of it, this is a portrait of an expert class that plays by it’s own rules and doesn’t think you should get a say.

Is this the moment the myth of expert rule finally dies?

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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/i-plead-the-fifth-how-faucis-lies?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Why Harvard Loses in the New College Rankings - Prof. Kevin Wallsten Jul 30, 2026

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I sat down with political scientist Kevin Wallsten to discuss his project building a new college ranking system from scratch. The standard metrics of acceptance rate, endowment size, and name recognition fail to address rising concerns about ideological bias and campus culture. With activism replacing the pursuit of truth throughout higher education, here’s what parents should know before sending their kids off to college.

We get into:

* Why University of Florida ranks #1 and Harvard lands at #37

* What the 68 variables in this new ranking system actually measure

* Why US News & World Report rankings almost never change, even as elite campuses melt down

* How faculty became activists, and why even tenured professors self-censor

* What DEI bureaucracies did to schools like the University of Michigan

* The three competing purposes of the university: personal development, job training, and politics

* Why universities are alienating the students they need most

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City Journal College Rankings: https://collegerankings.city-journal.org/rankings

https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/college-rankings/PDFs/CollegeRankings.pdf

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Outline:

[0:00] Universities have lost public trust

[6:59 7:12] What happened on campus in 2015?

[16:38] How universities became ideological

[24:33] What is the purpose of education?

[37:00] Should we think of college as career training?

[45:38] Campus politics is a status game

[53:51] The self-censorship tipping point

[1:07:40] Why don’t academics like debate?

[1:19:09] How academics view American society

[1:26:43] Has a diploma become a meaningless credential?

[1:35:29] How colleges stack up in 2026

[1:57:35] University governance is broken

[2:06:48] The tension between public funding and academic freedom

[2:19:23] Higher ed is about to drop off a demographic cliff

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Nolan’s Odyssey: Woke Disaster or Western Classic? Jul 24, 2026

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Christopher Nolan's “The Odyssey” opened last weekend and sent Homer's 2,800-year-old poem back up the bestseller charts. It also became the most fought-over movie in recent memory, with accusations of woke casting and the "1619 Project” treatment of the Western canon.

I decided to see the movie opening weekend. Some of the criticism lands. Some of it falls apart the moment the film starts. The real question isn't only whether the movie stays faithful to Homer, but which version of the West we think we're fighting for.

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America Cut Off Its Christian Roots. Now It’s in Crisis. - Eric Metaxas Jul 23, 2026

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I sat down with bestselling author Eric Metaxas to discuss the Christian roots of America and what happens to our freedom if we forget them. His new book, “Revolution,” tells the story of the founding and the values that make America exceptional.

We get into:

* How the founders’ religious beliefs shaped the Revolution

* The paradox of freedom and faith

* Why the French Revolution ended in a bloodbath and ours didn’t

* The true role of slavery in the Declaration of Independence

* Why British elites despised the American colonists

* The role of populism in American history

* What it means to be an American, and how Mamdani fits into that picture

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Outline:

[0:00] Why is the U.S. the greatest nation in history?

[4:12] You can’t have liberty without Christian faith

[14:35] When did our culture take a wrong turn?

[18:57] We’re vulnerable to the enemies of liberty

[25:09] Can a theocracy be truly Christian?

[32:14] How religious liberty emerged in America

[35:34] Were the Founding Fathers hypocrites about slavery?

[40:21] British elites despised the Americans

[46:13] Healthy populism vs mob rule

[52:29] How popular was the American Revolution?

[57:46] What does it mean to be an American?

[1:02:43] Is Mamdani really an American?

[1:06:21] The collapse of American pride

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Everyone Hates AI Data Centers. Here's Why They're (Mostly) Wrong. Jul 18, 2026

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New York just became the first state to halt new AI data center construction. Bernie Sanders and AOC want to take that policy national, and 63% of Americans agree with them across party lines. This has become the one truly bipartisan issue in our politics, but bipartisan doesn't mean good.

The concerns range from energy costs to water use to noise pollution. Some concerns are legitimate, some have already been solved, and others are simply based on false information. For better or for worse, technological revolutions usually aren't reversible.

So what will the future of the American economy look like?

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Marx Died a Loser. Lenin Made Him a Legend. - Phil Magness Jul 16, 2026

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I sat down with economic historian Phil Magness to give Karl Marx the fairest hearing we could, and then find out how his ideas took over half the world and most of modern academia.

We get into:

* The historical context of Karl Marx’s writings

* Why surplus value theory made intuitive sense and why it’s wrong

* How the iPhone launch disproves Marx’s labor theory of value

* The unlikely story of how Lenin and the Bolsheviks took over Russia

* Stalin, Trotsky, and the “real communism was never tried” folks

* How Soviet propaganda helped resurrect Marx in the West

* Why Marx is read in every academic field… except economics

* How to minimize cost and Marxist indoctrination in college

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