{"id":165618,"date":"2025-12-21T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165618"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:22:31","slug":"the-iron-fortress-decoding-the-rights-vitalist-turn-12-21-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165618","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Fortress: Decoding the Right\u2019s Vitalist Turn (12-21-25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WW-8xaweNJ8?si=a3M9IeZunBIReM89\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click to play at 01:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#60\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"60\">01:00<\/a> The Lost Generation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compactmag.com\/article\/the-lost-generation\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.compactmag.com\/article\/the-lost-generation\/<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 02:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#150\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"150\">02:30<\/a> Jacob Savage interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/thecarousel.substack.com\/p\/jacob-savage\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/thecarousel.substack.com\/p\/jacob-savage<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 20:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1200\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1200\">20:00<\/a> 12 Symptoms of Under-Earning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.underearnersanonymous.org\/newcomers-to-underearners-anonymous\/symptoms-of-underearning\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.underearnersanonymous.org\/newcomers-to-underearners-anonymous\/symptoms-of-underearning\/<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 35:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2100\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2100\">35:00<\/a> DEI And the Lost Generation of Young White Men, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZRGjtAtEefs\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZRGjtAtEefs<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 39:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2340\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2340\">39:00<\/a> DEI Diminished Trust In Our Institutions, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165616\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165616<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 42:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2520\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2520\">42:00<\/a> Where Diversity Makes Things Better, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165607\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165607<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 44:20\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2660\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2660\">44:20<\/a> Nicki Manaj talks to Erica Kirk at TPUSA<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 51:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3060\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3060\">51:00<\/a> The Problem of Social Cost, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165605\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165605<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 55:20\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3320\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3320\">55:20<\/a> Losing Is Contagious, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165603\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165603<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:15:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4500\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4500\">1:15:00<\/a> PF Jung: Let&#8217;s talk about Nick Fuentes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FsRmleI36KA\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FsRmleI36KA<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:18:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4680\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4680\">1:18:00<\/a> The Iron Fortress: Decoding the Right\u2019s Vitalist Turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165591\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165591<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:36:20\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5780\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5780\">1:36:20<\/a> Brett Cooper: DEI Didn\u2019t Just Fail \u2014 It Created a Generation of Radicalized Men, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MQH2s7fllcE\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MQH2s7fllcE<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:41:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6060\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6060\">1:41:00<\/a> The Lost Generation: My Personal Story of How DEI Discriminates Against Millennial White Men, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nl1wZkaP-sQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nl1wZkaP-sQ<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:50:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6600\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6600\">1:50:00<\/a> The rising tensions between Indian nationalists and American nationalists, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165587\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165587<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:53:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6780\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6780\">1:53:00<\/a> No Country for White Men | Guest: Jeremy Carl, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7pNjqxYVK1E\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7pNjqxYVK1E<\/a> <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:56:40\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7000\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7000\">1:56:40<\/a> The Male Heroes Of Bondi Beach, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165583\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165583<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:00:45\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7245\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7245\">2:00:45<\/a> The Lost Generation In The Age Of Conservative Claims Of Cultural Oppression, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165579\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165579<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:13:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7980\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7980\">2:13:00<\/a> The Lost Generation In Liberal Democracy 3.0, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165576\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165576<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:20:50\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#8450\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"8450\">2:20:50<\/a> WP: Is Gen Z the key to a manufacturing revival? Fall River thinks so., <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165574\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165574<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:27:50\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#8870\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"8870\">2:27:50<\/a> How DEI Destroyed a Generation of White Men (with Nick Dixon), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-lXSITukR0k\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-lXSITukR0k<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:41:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#9690\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"9690\">2:41:30<\/a> Bondi Beach: Did authorities fail to prevent antisemitic shooting by Naveed and Sajid Akram?, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ohn5tFTbgLc\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ohn5tFTbgLc<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:46:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#9960\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"9960\">2:46:00<\/a> Batya: DEI resulted in fewer young white men in white collar jobs<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:49:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#10140\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"10140\">2:49:00<\/a> Australia is lost, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_BJmPxaT6Mo\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_BJmPxaT6Mo<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:52:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#10320\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"10320\">2:52:00<\/a> Rachel Lu and Tiana Lowe Doescher debate how &#8216;the \u2018Great Feminization\u2019 has changed the workplace<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:54:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#10440\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"10440\">2:54:00<\/a> Ross Douthat&#8217;s Simpler Explanation for the Rightward Shift of Young Men, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pEBmjGwNu34\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pEBmjGwNu34<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:57:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#10620\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"10620\">2:57:00<\/a> Why Millennial Men Have Given Up, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J0Liwr5YlTA\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J0Liwr5YlTA<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 3:00:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#10800\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"10800\">3:00:00<\/a> Rufo &amp; Lomez: DEI And The Annihilation Of Young White Men, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NU314oi8ano\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NU314oi8ano<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 3:05:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#11100\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"11100\">3:05:00<\/a> National Conservatism podcast on Jacob Savage&#8217;s Lost Generation essay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2jBF5Wu8lu4\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2jBF5Wu8lu4<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 3:18:45\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#11925\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"11925\">3:18:45<\/a> Jason Whitlock: DEI Failed Black Quarterbacks and Ruined the NFL, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dB8x90G4oTc\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dB8x90G4oTc<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 3:23:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#12180\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"12180\">3:23:00<\/a> Jason Whitlock on learning to submit to the system to win, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WY3E1HcWt8Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WY3E1HcWt8Y<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01:00 The Lost Generation, https:\/\/www.compactmag.com\/article\/the-lost-generation\/02:30 Jacob Savage interview, https:\/\/thecarousel.substack.com\/p\/jacob-savage20:00 12 Symptoms of Under-Earning, https:\/\/www.underearnersanonymous.org\/newcomers-to-underearners-anonymous\/symptoms-of-underearning\/35:00 DEI And the Lost Generation of Young White Men, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZRGjtAtEefs39:00 DEI Diminished Trust In Our Institutions, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=16561642:00 Where Diversity Makes Things Better, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=16560744:20 Nicki Manaj talks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165618\">Continue reading <span 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