The End of Respect: How the State’s Monopoly on Violence Killed Masculinity and Made Us Defenseless
In a world that has never been safer, respect has never been rarer. Walk down any street, scroll any social feed, or step into any public space and you’ll see it: casual disrespect, entitlement, disruption, and outright contempt for others—with zero fear of immediate pushback. Why? Because nobody suffers real consequences for it anymore. Not physical ones, anyway. Not the kind that used to enforce boundaries in real time. Children don’t scrap on the playground the way they once did. Teenagers...