The “red pill” sphere of influence on young, spiritually malnourished men is epically mistaken and misdirected, writes Harrison Pitt in The European Conservative. The movement’s rhetoric of (often limitlessly promiscuous) self-actualization is founded on thinkers like Nietzsche, Machiavelli and Darwin and is not, Pitt warns, grounded in traditional (and conservative) virtues like duty, self-sacrifice, piety and service.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


