Scott Galloway’s recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher cut through the usual late-night bluster and left the room uncomfortably silent as he laid out hard numbers showing young men are in real trouble. The NYU professor didn’t offer slogans; he read the data — and for once the hand-wringing crowd had nothing clever to say back.
Galloway pointed to bleak, measurable outcomes: men account for the vast majority of suicides, are far more likely to be homeless or addicted, and face astronomically higher incarceration rates, while troubling behavioral statistics show 45 percent of men aged 18 to 24 have never asked a woman out in person and 63 percent of men under 30 aren’t even pursuing relationships. Those numbers aren’t opinion — they’re a public-health and social-order alarm bell that too many in elite institutions refuse to acknowledge.
His blunt diagnosis? Big Tech and modern culture are selling a simulacrum of life that lets young men sequester themselves behind screens — Reddit, Discord, trading apps, porn and algorithmic dopamine replace the hard, formative work of building friendships, jobs, and families. It’s a corrosive bargain: instant gratification paid for by the slow violence of lost purpose and decaying civic ties.
Conservative commentator Dave Rubin shared the DM clip and reacted the way any decent patriot should — disturbed but awake to the truth and eager to turn discomfort into action rather than fashionable pity. Rubin’s platform amplified what the mainstream laughs off: this is not a cultural blip, it’s an existential crisis for masculine identity that has real consequences for crime, health, and the next generation.
Let’s be blunt: the progressive gospel that celebrates soft victimhood while denigrating traditional male roles helped create this mess. Universities that prioritize grievance over grit, media that trivializes fatherhood, and policies that reward dependency instead of responsibility have all conspired to produce a generation of men who are addicted to screens and afraid of real-life stakes. No amount of hand-wringing op-eds will fix what decades of cultural rot have broken.
If we’re serious about reversing these trends, conservatives need answers, not just outrage. We should push for school reforms that teach resilience and practical skills, support policies that strengthen families and make fatherhood viable, and hold Big Tech accountable for business models that deliberately addict young minds to passive consumption. Scott Galloway’s new book and public work underline how reclaiming masculine virtues of responsibility, work, and relationship-building is not reactionary — it’s necessary for a healthy society.
This is a call to action for hardworking Americans who still believe in personal responsibility and the God-given dignity of family life: stop whispering about the problem and start building alternatives. We can and must raise boys into men who provide, protect, and love — and that starts with communities, churches, businesses, and lawmakers who refuse to let a generation sink into virtual shadows. The left laughs, the elites ignore it, but the rest of us will answer with common sense, faith, and unyielding commitment to the next generation.
