Dad Saves America

Last week, Cambridge’s youngest ever black full professor was found dead, days after resigning under investigation for plagiarism and his fabricated life story. Jason Arday claimed to have run 600 miles in six days, couldn't speak until age 11, and still earned a PhD by 30. When the scrutiny finally caught up with him, Amnesty International's response was to call for censorship.
Meanwhile, MIT's black enrollment dropped from 13% to just 5% after the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against affirmative action. Racial preferences in admissions have not achieved the supposed goal of closing educational disparities between black and white Americans, but instead have just papered over them.
The West has spent decades manufacturing token success stories to manage its own white guilt. Can we finally admit that meritocracy was the right answer all along?
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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/the-jason-arday-scandal-is-white?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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I sat down with Os Guinness, author of “Our Civilizational Moment,” to discuss how the West has become a “cut flower” civilization. Os argues that the slow secularization of the West has left its freedom, virtue, and sense of meaning disconnected from the foundation that sustained them for centuries.
We get into:
* Growing up in China during WWII and the rise of Mao
* Why the West is a “cut flower civilization”
* The golden triangle of freedom, virtue, and faith
* Why atheism conflicts with free will
* Whether Islam can adapt to Western norms
* The Hebrew Republic’s overlooked influence on America’s founding
* The rise of antisemitism on the left and right
* What it will take for the West to come home to its own roots
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Outline:[0:00] Growing up in China in the 1940s
[2:34] Eastern VS Western Civilization
[6:53] The roots of the West have been cut
[16:14] Freedom, virtue, and faith
[27:51] Civility and truth in public discourse
[36:59] Can people be equal without faith?
[40:19] Christianity is anti-utopian
[48:21] Is an Islamic Reformation possible?
[59:07] Are there limits to free speech?
[1:10:21] The Jewish influence on the Founding Fathers
[1:17:35] How can Christians and Jews work together?
[1:25:48] Why are Jews so influential in the West?
[1:35:53] The elitist-populist divide
[1:42:04] The role of entrepreneurship in freedom
[1:46:32] Man’s Search for Meaning
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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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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
Follow Katharine Birbalsingh on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/Miss_Snuffy
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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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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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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/the-democratic-socialists-have-a?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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