According to polls, the increased amount of support for New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is coming from people under the age of 35. 
Mamdani has never held a real job in his entire life. If you were looking for the definition of a career useless person, this would be the guy. 
You might say to yourself: How does a person with effectively no résumé, who worked for his mommy and was a rapper, wind up as the Democratic nominee in New York City?
But to misunderstand that is to misunderstand everything about Gen Z.
I&#8217;m not a politician, so I don&#8217;t have to pretend that the concerns of Gen Z are legitimate. I understand that if you&#8217;re a politician, then you have to placate people when they emotionally explain to you why their life is so difficult. Sometimes people do have difficult lives with real challenges in the world.
But when I hear from Gen Z that the American dream is dead to them, all I can think of is this: You have got to be kidding me.
I&#8217;ve read many pieces over the last couple of years now that Gen Z has it tougher than any generation in modern history. I thought to myself, “I&#8217;m going to vomit.”
How many serious wars have they had to live through? Zero. Zero serious terrorist attacks. They have lived in the most prosperous time in human history and the healthiest time in human history.
But because their rent is too high in New York City, while they concomitantly hold some sort of nonprofit jobs, they whine.
I don&#8217;t mean everyone in Gen Z complains without reason — there are many people who are suffering, who have a disease, who have health problems, who have been dealt a rough hand by life.
Those are not the people I&#8217;m talking about.
The generational complaint that somehow Gen Z has it worse than the millennials or Gen X or the boomers, or the Greatest Generation, ignores literally all of American history, all of it.
But if you&#8217;re a politician, you can make bank by pretending that these people have legitimate concerns and they&#8217;re not just being ungrateful and bratty. For these folks, Mamdani is an avatar.
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He has no resume. He grew up absolutely loaded with wealth, and currently is taking advantage of a rent-controlled apartment in New York City. He is currently living in a rent-stabilized apartment where the rent is $2,500 a month. The market rate would be $8,000 per month. He earns $147,000 a year and is campaigning on housing affordability in New York City.
You might think to yourself, “That&#8217;s crazy. How are all of these socialists in New York City supporting somebody who&#8217;s so clearly a hypocrite?”
But that misses the point: So many folks in America look to their politicians as aspirational figures. I think a lot of people who love President Trump view him as an aspirational figure, somebody who&#8217;s very wealthy and very powerful, somebody who&#8217;s made more of himself than otherwise he might have had at the beginning. Yes, he grew up rich, but he made himself into a brand name available all across the world for literally decades, and then became President of the United States twice.
It&#8217;s an aspirational thing.
But what if the Gen Z aspiration is to be a career loser who lives off of their parents’ income until they get some sort of cush government job living in a rent-stabilized apartment? What if that is the actual aspiration? What if people look up to Zohran Mamdani not in spite of the fact that he is a loser, but because he is a loser?
A lot of New Yorkers now have jobs and backgrounds very similar to Mamdani’s.
And this is the central point. 
Armin Rosen noted in <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/zohran-mamdanis-fantasy-island">Tablet Magazine</a>:
<blockquote>New York is thought of as the sink-or-swim epicenter of American capitalism, but that’s not true anymore. The city is home to more than 600,000 jobs in <a href="https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/reports/pdf/critical-role-of-nonprofits-in-new-york.pdf">the nonprofit sector </a>and a roughly equal number of <a href="https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2025/08/new-york-city.pdf">jobs in government</a>. Nonprofits now employ nearly 17 percent of the city’s total private-sector workforce, compared to 10 percent nationally. Wage growth in the nonprofit sector healthily outpaced the rest of the private sector statewide in New York between 2017 and 2022, 29.3 to 25.3 percent.</blockquote>
Wage growth in New York City is healthy because it&#8217;s all done off of government grants.
All of those nonprofits are not independently raising their money. They&#8217;re getting money from the government. Thus, they&#8217;re effectively second-order government employees.
When you look at the stats in New York, you understand just why Mamdani is so successful. You have well over 50% of the population that is working for some sort of government-orchestrated, government-organized, or government-funded segment of the economy.
In other words, the people who are getting money from the government are not the people who are paying for the government. They&#8217;re all Zohran Mamdani types. They&#8217;re living off the largesse of government.
Meanwhile, all of the rent across New York City has been rent-stabilized. 50% of all of the units across New York City have been rent-stabilized. One million units have been rent-stabilized, which means that there&#8217;s an artificially low supply of new construction in New York City. That means the prices go up. 
Mamdani is complaining about “affordability.” It should be pointed out that it&#8217;s all left-wing policies that made things unaffordable. Additionally, of the people who are in New York City trying to afford those rent-controlled, rent-stabilized apartments, a huge number of them are on the government dole, so they are earning from both ends. The government is stabilizing their rent, and at the same time, the government is likely subsidizing their salary.
This is why I&#8217;m irritated when I hear from Gen Z about how tough things are in places like New York.
We should point out that there has been this mindset that has settled in among the American population that you are supposed to die where you were born. 
This is not a typically American idea. There are people on the Right who believe this. There are people on the Left who believe this. But it is not a traditional American idea. The traditional American idea, if you go back to the very beginning, was to cross an ocean with nothing to guarantee what was going to happen. People went into the wilderness, built a crappy house, and tried to start a business. And if that didn&#8217;t work, they would abandon that place and move further to the west, across mountain ranges, across rivers.
That was the original American idea.
Traditionally, when it was too expensive to live in a place, Americans went somewhere else.
But Americans are not doing that anymore. Instead, the reason so many New Yorkers seem warm on socialism is that many New Yorkers are already living a form of socialism. They are living the Zohran Mamdani lifestyle, where they are being supported by the government in a wide variety of ways, ranging from the regulatory to the actual subsidy.
So when they say things are so hard in New York City, and the answer is more redistribution from the people who are earning all of the income and paying all the taxes, the answer should be NO.
At some point, there&#8217;s going to have to be a call for some level of responsibility on the part of young people.
I grew up in a 1,100 square-foot house with one bathroom and shared a bedroom with my three sisters until I was eleven. I did have the ultimate privilege: a solid two-parent household.
And you know what? It was a fine life. I&#8217;m grateful for that life.
I&#8217;m telling this story because there is this dumb assumption that if you talk about mobility in America and the capacity of people to make smart decisions and to make the kinds of moves that will be necessary to achieve success, the immediate accusation is that it was only true for you, it&#8217;s not true for anybody else.
But it&#8217;s not only true for me. It is true for a huge majority of Americans. If you make smart decisions in America, and if you stop whining for five seconds, and if you go out and make better decisions for yourself, you can make a better life for yourself.
So many politicians make bank off this idea that America is dying, that the American dream is dying. Who does better because of that?
Politicians.
This is how they gain power, because every time they fail, they turn around and they say, “The system has failed. Give me more power.”
This is how you end up with Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders.
It&#8217;s not going to work out for anyone who believes this garbage. It&#8217;s not going to work out for the city of New York. It&#8217;s not going to work out for the country.
The only person who can make your life better in the end is you. You are the person who makes your life better, not Mamdani, not Bernie Sanders.
Most Americans are not dreaming of a government job, making a decent salary, and living in a rent-stabilized apartment.
That is not the American dream.
It never was.

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A young woman on Instagram holds up an armful of green blankets. Every time she feels stressed about the state of the world, she makes a leaf or moss blanket.
“As you can see,” the young woman <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMOjfJWR8nQ/?igsh=cTlvajd6bWY3aHA1">says</a>, referring to the mound in her arms, “the state of the world has not been great.&#8221;
A mother <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/health/climate-anxiety-therapy.html">describes</a> the wave of guilt and shame that floods her when she contemplates buying plastic-wrapped snacks at Trader Joe’s. College students in an exercise designed to help them create plans to achieve their goals <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/how-to-age-up-on-a-warming-planet/682762/">struggle</a> to envision anything but blankness or the apocalypse when picturing the future.
All around us, adults and children are struggling with their mental health after years of being bombarded with messages that a climate catastrophe is both inevitable and imminent. These feelings of dread and helplessness, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/17/gen-z-depression-anxiety-future-workforce">particularly</a> in the youngest generations, have inspired a new term: “climate” or “eco” anxiety.
Widespread climate anxiety is fueling the growth of a new specialty, with some psychologists building practices around treating the problem. Yet how to approach treatment has caused its own controversy. Mental health professionals like me are trained to keep our own views out of a counseling relationship. This would include offering any opinions about anthropogenic climate change. Other groups, such as climate activists, react poorly to viewing what they consider well-founded anxiety over climate as dysfunctional thinking.
But any thought patterns that inhibit daily functioning and contribute to depression, social withdrawal or distressing feelings need to be treated. In trying to raise awareness of a changing climate and potential implications, authority figures like teachers, topic experts and even hyperbolic climate news articles have gone too far.
Dr. Sarah Ray is the professor who <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/how-to-age-up-on-a-warming-planet/682762/">discovered</a> her students simply couldn’t envision a positive future. “It wasn’t just that they were living in a scary world,” she said. “It was that they were getting information about a scary world in a very particular way.”
The answer is to stop scaring people. Fear is rarely motivating. People have to feel as if they can make a change or a difference. Fear tactics only encourage feelings of helplessness and overwhelm, leading to avoidance and disconnection.
Adults must learn how to navigate these issues for their own improved mental health, as well as for effective parenting and education of the next generation. Teaching children about climate change has too often strayed from providing necessary information to dumping unfiltered fears on impressionable kids.
“It&#8217;s essential for adults to learn how to manage stress and anxiety in their own lives so we don&#8217;t pass it on to the next generation,” licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist Amy Morin said in <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-mentally-strong-people-dont-do/202408/10-reasons-todays-kids-are-more-anxious-than-ever">Psychology Today</a>.
This might look like building better habits, such as limiting exposure to articles about climate (stop doomscrolling).
Another technique used in cognitive behavioral therapy is redirecting attention from something distressing to something lovable as a step towards finding agency. For example, I am passionate about reducing landfill waste. When I feel afraid and angry about the size of trash piles in the ocean or how much garbage we export to other countries, I try to remember that the feelings are secondary emotions pointing to what I love. I care because I love my community and my country. I care about the world. I love my children, and I want them to inherit a planet that is healthier, not more diseased from human carelessness. I believe we are called to be good stewards.
I can’t teach my children those values by yelling at them for being wasteful or terrorizing them with scary photos, just as I can’t keep them from using drugs by enrolling them in DARE. Instead, I have to teach them to live for something beyond themselves, but also to know that while they can’t solve massive problems on their own, there is hope in performing small positive actions.
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If they are not overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problem, they are better positioned to engage in the first place, individually and then in community. They will also be less vulnerable to misrepresentation of the facts if their ability to apply critical thinking is not shut down by the fear-triggered “fight, flight, or freeze” response of the amygdala in the brain. For example, instead of believing we should abandon fossil fuels, which would actually destabilize communities, they can evaluate the possibility of using technology to lessen their impact while pursuing more sustainable solutions.
Dr. Thomas Doherty has built a practice around helping people with climate anxiety. Along with coauthor Susan Clayton, they were among the first nearly 15 years ago <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-09485-003">to suggest</a> that climate change would have a psychological impact on people. After Portland experienced a high-pressure system called a “heat-dome” that sent temperatures soaring, one client asked Dr. Doherty if they were all doomed.
“Dr. Doherty listened quietly. Then he told her, choosing his words carefully, that the rate of climate change suggested by the data was not as swift as what she was envisioning.
‘In the future, even with worst-case scenarios, there will be good days,’ he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/health/climate-anxiety-therapy.html">told</a> her, according to his notes. “‘Disasters will happen in certain places. But, around the world, there will be good days. Your children will also have good days.’”
Humans won’t be able to solve the problems we are facing if, in pursuit of gaining acknowledgement of serious problems, we believe and have taught our youngest generations that there is nothing to live for. Dr. Ray may have put it best.
“We just need better thoughts,” she <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/how-to-age-up-on-a-warming-planet/682762/">said</a>. “It’s not about 10 things you can do to save the planet. There’s a hundred million books out there. This is like 10 things you can think about to save the planet.”
Better thoughts can be practiced. In the next encounter with a dramatic headline about climate change, try to pause. Remember first that every climate news and opinion article today has one goal: to get a reader to click. Headlines are written with that sole aim in mind. Fear sells. Don’t fall for it. I tell my clients to notice their feelings, then to redirect their thoughts to what they love and the specific things they are practicing to stay true to their values. This will energize people to continue to be part of solutions rather than perpetuating a cycle of impotent fear.
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Alysha Tagert, MSW, LICSW, is a mental health professional specializing in anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma and PTSD.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Young Americans and other ignoramuses seem to be moving to the political Left. A new poll shows that 62% of Americans aged 18 to 29 now hold a favorable view of socialism — and the percentage is even higher among 18- to 29-year-olds who wear rings in their noses because they couldn&#8217;t locate their ears.
In on-the-street interviews with young people or just people with enough tattoos to qualify as glitches in the evolutionary progress of humankind, the subjects interviewed gave various reasons for their leftward shift.
For instance, one young man named Sketchy Boardslide told a reporter, “I believe in socialism because if you ran a metal wire into my left ear, it would come out my right ear without touching anything in-between. As a result, I’m so shallow that my shallowness goes down very deep, a sentence that doesn’t even make any sense, which should give you some idea of just how incredibly stupid I am. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to guide my battery-powered skateboard to a voting booth in order to help elect someone who will destroy every vestige of what good men hold dear, whatever a vestige is. Bye, Felicia.”
A woman we interviewed who is either between 18 and 29 years old or just so ignorant it’s hard to tell the difference, told our reporter, “When I look at all the inequality and suffering in the world, I care so much it really makes me feel good about what a warm-hearted person I am. Believing in socialism is a way for me to express the precious tenderness of my heart without actually having to do anything for anybody, because that would take time away from making videos about opening boxes of cosmetics while pouting with surgically modified lips so big they look like a cross between a gravy boat and some unidentifiable kind of roadkill. If I vote socialist, everyone will admire my compassionate nature until the country collapses in a catastrophe of poverty and oppression and is overrun by barbarians so that I become part of some savage’s harem, which has been a big fantasy of mine ever since I read a novel in which all the men had bat wings and did rough sex with women who were beautiful, fragile fairies but really strong in some kind of magical way.”
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Pollsters have found that the move toward socialism among young people and other dunderheads has opened up a gender gap between women, who make good money and are completely miserable, and men who scratch their armpits in public and are working on developing an organizational chart of the Marvel Comics Universe. Some psychologists say the divide may be caused by sex differences that have been socially constructed in every society that has ever existed and ever will until the end of time.
For instance, studies show that young women experience higher levels of anxiety and stronger feelings of vulnerability, while young men are far more likely to chase women down the street, shouting, “Hey, baby, give me some of that hot stuff, the way they do it in porn,” diverse sex traits that some scientists believe may be mysteriously connected.
One gender scientist, Dr. Bartholomew Creepy, says these sex differences, which are not at all innate but simply socially constructed everywhere always and forever, may give clues to why young women are increasingly socialist, while young men believe Spiderman is actually a real person but you never see him because we don’t live in his section of the multiverse. In a speech to a convention of middle-aged men who subscribe to Teen Vogue for some reason, Dr. Creepy said, “Young women have been shown to exhibit higher levels of agreeableness and tender-heartedness which are conducive to socialism when combined with their almost total inability to reason. I hope to deliver deeper insights into this phenomenon in my latest study of young women with its focus on their uncannily smooth and shapely legs.”
Older people, conservatives and anyone else with a lick of sense are hoping to avoid the consequences of the leftward trend among the young by praying for death to mercifully carry them away before the next election.
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After he graduated from Vanderbilt, a man named Nathan Halberstadt began working at the Boston Consulting Group. This is a familiar path for students who attend schools that are highly ranked. Often they&#8217;re hired by one of the &#8220;Big Three&#8221; consulting companies, which on paper, means that they&#8217;ll provide useful advice for large businesses and the government.
Very quickly, though, Nathan realized what the job actually entailed. In his words, working for a big consulting group meant that you had to promote, &#8220;the bureaucratic optimization of opioid sales, mass migration, off-shoring, and DEI.&#8221; You had to churn out bogus <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imLMG7C6oF4">statistics</a> to advance anti-American agenda items — like that fake McKinsey study a few years back, which claimed that &#8220;diversity&#8221; somehow makes companies more profitable. That&#8217;s what &#8220;consulting&#8221; actually means, in practice.
New graduates from Vanderbilt aren&#8217;t really walking into companies like Boeing and Apple and blowing their minds with their unique insights. Instead, in many cases, they&#8217;re simply giving executives a pretext to do exactly what they wanted to do all along.
Seeing all this, Nathan decided to quit. Instead of manipulating data to promote the destruction of the United States, he decided to spend his time identifying statistics that actually matter. He would look through government data and try to find important connections that no one else has made before. And the other day, as you may have seen, Nathan accomplished that goal. He published this remarkable chart, which has already been cited by several members of Congress and seen by millions of people. Here it is:
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It&#8217;s a graph that shows the estimated percentage of 30-year-olds who are both married and own a home. The data runs from 1950 all the way through 2025. In the 1950s, the number was more than 50%. In other words, in 1950, well over half of the 30-year-olds in this country were both married and living in a home that they owned.
But as you can see, the percentage has been steadily dropping since then, until it fell off a cliff in the 1990s. And now, in 2025, the percentage is well below 20%. In fact, according to this estimate, only around 15% of 30-year-olds are married and own a home. Something that was once commonplace in this country is now rare. 50% to 15%.
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Right off the bat, it&#8217;s impossible to look at an estimate like this without immediately asking: Why haven&#8217;t we heard these numbers before? For all of the very granular information we have about gross domestic product and unemployment numbers and per capita manufacturing output, it took a random Vanderbilt graduate to produce this particular chart. To be sure, we all knew that these numbers were bad. It was very evident that fewer young people were getting married or owning homes. But the scale, and the timing of the decline, weren&#8217;t remotely clear. Frankly, this is a lot worse than anyone realized, which is why the chart has attracted so much attention.
But the numbers were always available to anyone who wanted to look for them. All you have to do is look up the marriage data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which tabulates the &#8220;median age of first marriage&#8221; — along with Pew surveys on the percentage of people who are married at 30 — and then factor in home ownership data from the Census. It&#8217;s not a perfect calculation; some estimation is involved. We recently covered the problems with Census data and how unreliable it can be. But the overall story is pretty clear, and it&#8217;s corroborated by other sources.
In Ohio, for example, researchers at Bowling Green State University have <a href="https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/FP-25-10.html">compiled</a> similar estimates.
Amazingly, though, very few of our political leaders are talking about this. It&#8217;s not a topic of mainstream conversation at all. Making sure that Americans are getting married and acquiring homes by the age of 30 should be the urgent priority of every politician in the country. It&#8217;s hard to think of many other things that could possibly be more important. But it&#8217;s not getting anywhere near the attention it should.
To the extent that some action is being taken in Washington, it raises some unanswered questions. For example, this week a very unusual alliance <a href="https://www.wsaz.com/2025/08/02/sen-kennedy-warrens-new-bill-aims-build-more-affordable-housing/">formed</a> in Washington between Elizabeth Warren — the socialist from Massachusetts — and John Kennedy, the Republican from Louisiana. The two senators have introduced legislation called the &#8220;Build Now Act,&#8221; which would withhold taxpayer funds from states that don&#8217;t build enough housing, while sending taxpayer money to states that build more housing. Unlike most proposed legislation that you hear about, this particular bill actually has a good chance of passing, because it was just unanimously approved by a Senate committee. Here&#8217;s Kennedy&#8217;s explanation of the plan:
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It is stunning that the median age of a first-time home buyer in America today is 38.
We’ve got a problem.
By incentivizing cities to slash red tape and start building homes again, my Build Now Act would help open the door to homeownership. <a href="https://t.co/LfCV7k3Y1T">pic.twitter.com/LfCV7k3Y1T</a>
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnKennedy/status/1950234826381918263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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As a general rule, whenever Democrats and Republicans — and in this case, a conservative like John Kennedy and a socialist like Elizabeth Warren — team up to promote legislation, it&#8217;s usually a good idea to be skeptical. The only ideas that have bipartisan support in Washington are bad ones, generally speaking. And as we all know, socialists are well-known for making housing even less affordable, by introducing high-minded plans to manipulate markets (as New York City is about to discover the hard way).
That said, more housing is obviously a good idea. Increasing the supply of housing usually means that prices will go down. That&#8217;s basic economics. And although it&#8217;s reasonable to be concerned about the federal government throwing taxpayer money around, this is one of those rare times where it makes sense. Certainly, the federal government helped many homeowners in the 1950s, with the GI bill and so on.
At the same time, it&#8217;s reasonable to ask whether this kind of legislation will simply provide incentives for the creation of, say, more dilapidated housing for the homeless to use as drug dens, or more rental units for neighborhoods that are already flooded with them. This is a problem that&#8217;s becoming increasingly apparent, as you may have noticed. Large institutions are buying up homes in suburbs and renting them, instead of putting them up for sale. Watch:
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Constructing new housing doesn&#8217;t necessarily address this particular problem, if the houses are being purchased by institutions and rented out as apartments. A lot depends on why the homes are being constructed, and where they&#8217;re located. Kennedy&#8217;s bill does have provisions that provide incentives for new construction in high-demand areas, but again, you still might wind up with apartment complexes where you actually want single-family homes.
That&#8217;s not to disparage this particular bill, or to declare that it can&#8217;t possibly help matters. But it&#8217;s safe to say that this legislation won&#8217;t come close to solving the underlying problem, which again, is that young people aren&#8217;t getting married and can&#8217;t afford homes. Those are problems with a lot of different causes — probably too many to list. Compared to the 1950s, we have tens of millions more illegal aliens living inside our borders. We&#8217;ve devalued the dollar to an almost unprecedented degree. We&#8217;ve opened up our job market to the entire world, driving down employment. And on and on. There are also many cultural factors that have — in many cases deliberately, by design — make marriage and family life seem less appealing to younger generations.
But there is one aspect of this new data that&#8217;s worth homing in on, because it does suggest one practical way forward. In the 1950s, roughly 90% of 30-year-olds were married, and more than 50% were homeowners. By contrast, right now, only around 50% of 30-year-olds are married, and roughly 30% are home-owners. So both numbers dropped by huge margins. But the marriage decline has been drastically more significant than the drop in home ownership. More than any other time in this country&#8217;s history, men and women are choosing not to get married. And there&#8217;s reason to believe that this broader cultural trend is what&#8217;s convincing a lot of young adults to forgo home ownership, as well.
After all, if you&#8217;re single, the prospect of paying most of your savings to a bank in the form of a down payment for a house isn&#8217;t exactly appealing. You don&#8217;t need all of that space for yourself and your dog. Before I was married, I never even considered trying to buy a home. As soon as I got married, I felt a sudden and very strong pull to buy a home and have a piece of land that we could call our own. Within about three years of getting married, we bought our first home. But for single people the financial sacrifice seems irrational and unnecessary, so if they have any extra money to throw around, they’re more likely to put it into Bitcoin or something else instead. On the other hand, if you&#8217;re intent on starting a family, then the cost of a mortgage makes a lot more sense. People can make it work, in many cases. I&#8217;ve said before that home ownership is attainable for almost anyone with a full-time job and decent credit. It&#8217;s often a matter of priorities. And as we look at the plummeting numbers of homeowners who are young and married, it&#8217;s a fact that needs to be restated. In this case, as in many other cases, decline is actually a choice.
And make no mistake — this is decline. Millions of young adults (who aren&#8217;t even that young at 30) have no skin in the game, no real stake in the country or its future. Getting married, starting a family, and owning property are the basic fundamental pillars of the American dream. They&#8217;re the starting point for a fulfilling and productive life, and a well-ordered society. As this new data reveals, most young people were able to achieve those milestones in the 1950s. But they&#8217;re not achieving them anymore. And those numbers are only getting worse by the year. Things are trending in the wrong direction, and quickly. If we want the kind of country we had in the 1950s — which is to say a country that has the potential to survive for another century — then one way or another, that needs to change.

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This One Shocking Stat Proves That The American Dream Is Dying

Economy

Housing

Marriage

Matt Walsh

Mortgages

Daily Wire host Isabel Brown joined Fox and Friends First Wednesday morning to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376615015112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explain</a> why Gen Z is shunning remote work in favor of a traditional office setting.
“When you think about culturally the shift that started happening in about 2020, young people had our entire lives thrown into the metaverse against our will,” Brown said. “We started dating online, all of our friendships and relationships took place online, certainly all of our entertainment was digital, and work and school were as well.”
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Gen Z is ditching &#8220;work from home&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@theisabelb</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@foxandfriends</a> why: &#8220;Young people had our entire lives thrust into the metaverse against our will&#8230;&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/fuziJxVIhf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/fuziJxVIhf</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1953102883244625984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“We constantly were thrust into a disconnected culture where loneliness and mental health problems started to thrive.” The World Health Organization found that anxiety and depression <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/02-03-2022-covid-19-pandemic-triggers-25-increase-in-prevalence-of-anxiety-and-depression-worldwide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> by 25% in the first year of the pandemic, disproportionately affecting young people.
Isabel said that Gen Z is on a “quest to rebuild meaningful connection.”
“I think the easiest button and the easiest way to do that is starting a hybrid work schedule or in person work.”
“You’re starting to see this behavior not just in the workplace but we’re ditching our dating apps and bringing back in person speed dating events in big cities all over the country, you’re looking at people really wanting to build something with their hands, to touch one another, and to have that sense of real connection,” she said.
Brown’s suggestion that Gen Z is looking for connection is supported by a recent Gallup <a href="https://www.gallup.com/workplace/692675/fully-remote-work-least-popular-gen-z.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a>, which found 27% of Gen Zers say they feel lonely doing remote work, while 21% of Millennials, 15% of Gen Xers, and 10% of Boomers say the same.
According to Gallup, only 23% of Gen Zers prefer working from home, compared to 35% of every other generation.
Brown says Gen Z is increasingly disillusioned with social media acting as a replacement for in person contact.
“I think we’ve faced this paradox culturally and it&#8217;s a question left for our generation to answer: how do we responsibly balance the role of technology in connecting us, while also preventing that isolation and loneliness that often is hiding behind the screen?”
“I think this is why you’re watching Gen Z for example lead the religious resurgence happening in America right now, its young people that are flooding church pews on Sunday morning and reviving church communities at Catholic churches across the country and having mass baptism events on our college campuses,” she added.
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Gen Z is ditching &#8220;work from home&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@theisabelb</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@foxandfriends</a> why: &#8220;Young people had our entire lives thrust into the metaverse against our will&#8230;&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/fuziJxVIhf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/fuziJxVIhf</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1953102883244625984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“That real sense of community with the people around you can never be replaced by an algorithm or a social media feed.”
Brown, a leading Gen Z conservative commentator, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-isabel-brown-the-daily-wires-newest-host" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> last month that she was joining The Daily Wire. “The Isabel Brown Show” launches this fall on DailyWire+.

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WATCH: Isabel Brown Explains Why Gen Z is Rejecting Remote Work

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Isabel Brown

Religion

Remote Work

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Left can’t meme, but can only scold the Right for memeing well.
This dynamic was once confined to esoteric feuds among terminally online partisans. Now, it’s playing out in the open — between government agencies and what remains of the legacy media — and the stakes are increasingly tangible.
The Trump administration’s social media accounts have spent their summer appropriating classic images of Americana, notably J.M. Flagg’s famous<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Montgomery_Flagg#/media/File:I_Want_You_for_U.S._Army_by_James_Montgomery_Flagg.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> 1917 Uncle Sam poster</a>. But things really hit a fever pitch when the Department of Homeland Security shared three seemingly innocuous images: <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1948150126494482555" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Gast’s 1872 “American Progress,”</a> with the caption “A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending.” <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1940164863793549747" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas Kinkade’s “Morning Pledge”</a> with the caption “Protect the Homeland,” and<a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1944875154745778525" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Morgan Weistling’s “A Prayer for a New Life”</a> captioned “Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.”
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Protect the Homeland.
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— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1940164863793549747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/29/trump-dhs-immigrants-social-paintings/">Washington Post</a>, “the art world is not happy” with these posts because they are “part of an effort to rewrite the past with an exclusionary view of American history,” one in which there are clear standards of good and evil.
The Post doesn’t attempt to show why ordinary Americans should care about this. But while the Post’s freakout may be amusing to behold, it also gets at something important. Liberals are right to panic about these posts — and conservatives should pay attention.
The second Trump administration is staffed with right-wing Zoomers. These staffers are digital natives: born in the memeworld, molded by it, and in many cases more radically opposed to the leftwing hegemony that reached its apogee during their formative years than those of us who remember the days when cable news still dictated the terms of national conversation.
Those days are gone. Millennials like JD Vance and Stephen Miller hold high office. The aesthetic sensibilities of the Zoomers on their staff are shaping the administration’s narrative warfare, providing unprecedented air cover to the administration’s ground operations. Their social media habits are a visible sign of just how far the Left has fallen from its media and, thus, meaning-making monopoly.
The recent dustup about Homeland Security posting Americana paintings is just a minor skirmish in the larger war that is being waged for the sensibilities of the American people. Liberals have long realized that he who controls the production, distribution, and regulation of images controls the hearts, minds, and imaginations of the population.
Despite their confusion over other fundamental truths such as the difference between a man and a woman, liberals grasp this reality — and in it, something essential to the human condition.
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A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending.
American Progress &#8211; John Gast <a href="https://t.co/agU6bl8TZ8">pic.twitter.com/agU6bl8TZ8</a>
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1948150126494482555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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We are imaginative as well as rational creatures, embodied as well as capable of abstract thought. Our reasoning about right and wrong, true and false, never gets very far without referring to something particular we’ve experienced, either directly in our own lives or vicariously through the testimony of others — including stories and history. “Music,” in the classical and comprehensive sense of “the arts of the Muses,” matters.
In ancient Greece, the nine Muses were the daughters of “Memory” and presided over the arts. Mythology and biography, parable and narrative, have always been the primary means of moral and political education, and they remain so today. Americans in general still recognize the power of the “Muse-ical arts,” mainly in the potency of historical narratives such as the Civil War, World War II, and the Civil Rights Movement.
We would do well to recover the sense of power contained in other forms of “Music,” especially the storytelling power of films. Newer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/movies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ventures</a> on the <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/07/20/2025/founders-films-aims-to-remake-hollywood-with-patriotism-palantir-and-ayn-rand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Right</a> are beginning to do this.
But we still have a long way to go. Even the artists whose work the Trump administration is now using aren’t safe from the Left’s appropriation.
The Kinkade Family Foundation, scandalized by the Trump administration’s use of his work, <a href="https://www.kinkadefamilyfoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> it was “deeply troubled to see this image used to promote division and xenophobia associated with the ideals of DHS” and pledged solidarity with “our communities who have been threatened and targeted by DHS, especially our immigrant, BIPOC, undocumented, LGBTQ+, and disabled relatives and neighbors.” Weistling, the only artist of the three still alive, took to his <a href="https://www.morganweistling.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> to distance himself from the politics of the moment: “The recent DHS post on social media using a painting of mine that I painted a few years ago was used without my permission.”
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Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land &#8211; Morgan Weistling <a href="https://t.co/nFL61Nljbw">pic.twitter.com/nFL61Nljbw</a>
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1944875154745778525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Still, there is a virtually inexhaustible store of classic works of mythology, literature, and history, ancient as well as American, waiting to be adapted by artists who love rather than revile our inheritance.
There is a lesson here for older conservatives. Liberal donors have long appreciated the political utility of culture. As a class, they have lavished funds on all manner of artistic ventures, sowing seeds broadly in the expectation that just a few of their investments will blossom into captivating cultural products. As a result, they have dominated the culture for generations — not because young people are naturally more liberal (Zoomer men are currently disproving this myth) — but because their cold, hard cash has helped drag the next generation leftward.
Conservative donors are more comfortable running a business than patronizing the arts. They tend to focus their charitable giving on well-defined causes with short-term returns on investment. They have thereby won discrete battles — winning this election, pushing that policy through Congress — while losing the broader war for the soul of the nation.
That the unembarrassed Americanism of artists like Kinkade and Weistling has enjoyed commercial success while swimming against the tide of liberal cultural hegemony is a sign of just how high a demand remains in the American public for non-leftist cultural products. Liberal hegemony is cracking up, and as the Trump administration gets serious about winding down its taxpayer-funded power bases, from NPR and PBS to elite universities, the crack-up is bound to continue.
The emergence of an energetic and effective American Right has far more to do with digital disruption than with a strategic change in the conservative donor class. Conservatives who are serious about reclaiming American culture, and consigning the most anti-American elements of the Left to the dustbin of history, should put a shoulder to the wheel — not just in lobbying and campaign donations, but in directly patronizing the artists, educators, and other culture creators who celebrate rather than denigrate our civilizational heritage.
Pavlos Papadopoulos is Associate Professor of Humanities at Wyoming Catholic College.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

American Progress

Americana Posting And The War For Culture

Conservatives

Department of Homeland Security

Painting

Washington Post

Let’s stop pretending Jerome Powell is some impartial steward of the economy just trying to do his job.
He isn’t. He’s playing politics with the futures of millions of Americans, and my generation is bearing the brunt of it.
While the Federal Reserve prepares to spend <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/feds-2-5b-renovation-irking-president-trump-team" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over $2.5 billion</a> renovating its palatial headquarters, decking it out in imported marble and modernist opulence, young Americans are out here just trying to afford a starter home. We’re not asking for much: a patch of land, a front door, and the dignity of ownership. But, thanks to Jerome Powell’s refusal to cut interest rates, even that modest dream feels like a fantasy.
Powell’s negligence isn’t just bad policy. It’s generational theft.
At a time when inflation has cooled, job growth remains stable, and global conditions call for relief, the Fed continues to hold interest rates at suffocating, near 20-year highs.
Why? Because Powell knows what lowering rates would do: it would boost the economy. It would bring relief to working families. And yes, it would help President Donald Trump. And that, apparently, is something Jerome Powell just can’t stomach.
So, instead of doing the right thing, he’s doing the political thing. And he’s disguising it as so-called prudence.
I’m not buying it.
High interest rates aren’t some abstract policy lever. They’re a wrecking ball, smashing through the budgets of everyday Americans. When interest rates are this high, mortgages become unaffordable. Monthly payments skyrocket. The average 30-year mortgage rate now sits around 7%, up from 2.65% just a few years ago. That translates to hundreds of dollars more per month, if not thousands, for the same home. And that’s assuming you can even get approved for one.
So, what happens? People stay renting. Families delay buying. Couples postpone starting a family. Dreams are deferred, futures are frozen, and lives are lived on pause.
That isn’t economic stewardship. It’s economic strangulation.
And it’s disproportionately hitting young people. Millennials and Gen Z aren’t out here begging for handouts; we’re begging for a fair shot.  But we’ve been priced out of the housing market, saddled with student debt due to degrees that increase in cost but decrease in value, and now, thanks to Powell, we&#8217;re locked out of building real wealth through homeownership —the very cornerstone of the American middle class.
This isn’t just about housing. It’s about hope.
It’s about whether a generation of Americans will believe that if you work hard, play by the rules, and save your money, you can build a life. Because right now, under Jerome Powell’s leadership, that promise is eroding.
And let’s be honest: this didn’t happen by accident. Powell knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s using the Federal Reserve as a weapon to kneecap an economy that would otherwise be roaring back, all because he fears what that might mean politically.
It’s shameful. It’s disgraceful. And it’s a violation of the trust that comes with his office.
President Trump, along with Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, is absolutely right to demand Powell’s resignation. And every American who cares about fairness, growth, and the future should echo that call. Because this is no longer simply about monetary policy. It’s about simple right and wrong.
Jerome Powell is not some neutral expert stuck in a tough position. He is an unelected bureaucrat standing between an entire generation and the American Dream. He is choosing stagnation over opportunity. Pain over prosperity. Politics over people.
And he needs to go.
We deserve better. We deserve a future. And we’re not going to sit quietly while that future gets stolen by one man’s disgraceful obsession with political sabotage disguised as economic strategy.
Enough is enough.
CJ Pearson, is National Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Testifies During Senate Hearing On Capitol Hill

Jerome Powell Is Killing Gen Z’s Shot At The American Dream 

Donald Trump

Interest Rates

Jerome Powell

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham still know how to make a scene.
Earlier this month, the former lovers and Fleetwood Mac stars <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/07/18/stevie-nicks-lindsey-buckingham-fleetwood-mac-reunion/85269775007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused a stir</a> when they posted complementary lyrics on their respective social media pages.
“And if I go forward,” Nicks posted, just as Buckingham shared “I’ll meet you there.”
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LOVE IS REAL <a href="https://t.co/VJwK2ATM5D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/VJwK2ATM5D</a>
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The twin halves form the refrain of the couple’s song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6sfWg386yg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Frozen Love,</a>” from the album “Buckingham Nicks,” which they recorded before joining the band that would make them famous.
Were they teasing that they would be releasing a remastered version of the album, as of yet not available on Spotify? Or were the famously on-again, off-again duo announcing that they were reuniting in their twilight years, as Nicks had once <a href="https://x.com/fleetwood_memes/status/1946160101259145418" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> they would do?
The fact is, it doesn’t matter what they were teasing. The world perked up when they teased.
Weirdly, today, that&#8217;s not entirely unsurprising.
Buckingham and Nicks rose to fame, not with their titular album, but when they joined Mick Fleetwood and John McVie’s blues rock band in 1974 — seven years after it formed — and lent their sound to the otherwise average project, propelling Fleetwood Mac into stardom.
After “Rumours” dropped in 1977, it was clear that Fleetwood Mac would forever be famous. By the time Bill Clinton replaced the Democratic Party’s theme of “Happy Days Are Here Again” — chosen by Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 — with the band’s “Don’t Stop,” it was clear that the Fleetwood Mac had made it.
But that’s not why people cared about Buckingham and Nicks’ posts. In recent years, the band — and its tumultuous lead duo — has become a bit of a phenomenon among millennials and Gen Z.
It started, perhaps, with a viral <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=dreams+cranberry+juice+tiktok&amp;oq=dreams+cranberry+juice+tiktok&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQABjvBdIBCDY3MjFqMGo0qAIAsAIB&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&amp;vld=cid:23d42a8b,vid:OtzVKUCZE5w,st:0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 TikTok</a> in which Nathan Apodaca filmed himself longboarding down the road while drinking cranberry juice and listening to “Dreams.” It continued as denizens of “BookTok” fell in love with Taylor Jenkins Reid’s “Daisy Jones And The Six,” a novel inspired by the band that became an equally popular Amazon Prime series.
Still, that’s not enough to explain the Fleetwood Mac renaissance among a generation whose parents grew up thinking of the band as a staple of classic rock radio. Really, the revival has to do with a single performance of a song the band never actually released.
“Silver Springs” was cut from “Rumours,” though contemporary fans of the song likely struggle to understand why. In it, Nicks chides a former romantic partner, “Time cast a spell on you, but you won&#8217;t forget me/I know I could have loved you/But you would not let me.”
It’s clear to anyone who knows the tangled romantic history of Fleetwood Mac that Nicks is singing to Buckingham, a point made abundantly clear by the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwi-8n054s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-viral clip</a> from the band’s 1997 concert film “The Dance” in which she stares down the guitarist, who almost fumbles his solo as she spits “you’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.”
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It’s a striking scene, and an incredible performance. But why, one wonders, did this particular clip gain so much traction in recent years? For as long as Fleetwood Mac has been famous, it’s been known that its members had been cheating on each other — often with each other — and writing their romantic vicissitudes into their songs.
Why is it that, almost half a century after the release of a best-selling album that contained the  biting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozl3L9fhKtE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Go Your Own Way”</a> and the cheeky <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJo3Rq5Fubc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“You Make Loving Fun”</a> — a song that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/12-of-the-biggest-names-who-died-in-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">late Christine McVie</a> wrote about having an affair with the band&#8217;s lighting director and told her husband and bandmate John McVie was about their dog — a single music video ignited an entirely new fervor for the band with a generation that would have otherwise viewed these songs as their parents’ music?
At first glance, it’s easy to write the Fleetwood Mac revival off as another TikTok phenomenon. The cranberry juice-swilling longboarder lit the match, and the fire spread throughout social media.
But there is something about young people’s embrace of “Silver Springs” and the entire Fleetwood Mac oeuvre that makes it different from, say, the recent popularity of Connie Francis’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pretty-little-baby-singer-connie-francis-dead-at-87" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Pretty Little Baby.”</a> Teenagers who adopted the late crooner’s hit as a TikTok sound didn’t do so because they yearned for the chippy vibes of the 1950s — they did so because, like so many other social media trends, someone started it and they followed.
No, the re-embrace of Fleetwood Mac is more earnest. New fans delight not just in the music, but in the rawness of the performance, the expression of emotion performed by jilted lovers, yearning hearts, once and future friends,
Perhaps we should not be surprised that Gen Z embraced Fleetwood Mac for these reasons. After all, this is a generation that is <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/1254614599/carter-sherman-gen-z-sex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not having sex</a>, <a href="https://time.com/7203140/gen-z-drinking-less-alcohol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drinking</a>, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-drug-use-record-lows-study-alcohol-marijuana-2004327" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doing drugs</a>, or even <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-choosing-not-drive-1861237" target="_blank" rel="noopener">driving their own cars</a>. It’s understandable that they would yearn for something more real, more primal, more exciting than what they’re used to. Smothered by helicopter parents and numbed by antidepressants, it makes sense that young people today would latch onto a band known for its almost comical licentiousness, fueled by drugs meant to exacerbate emotions, not control them.
It helps, of course, that Fleetwood Mac is an incredible band. Stevie Nicks is a generational performer, her voice made for belting in an arena while doing a witchy dance. Lindsey Buckingham is one of the great guitarists, and his solos, both passionate and elegant, never distract from his vocal prowess.
And then there’s the rest of the band, who are made all the more likable by the fact that they exist in the shadows of their leaders’ steely glares and rocky pasts. As one fan <a href="https://x.com/lornashawty/status/1815371603321962995" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it on X</a>, during the aforementioned performance of “Silver Springs,” “Lindsay stares at Stevie to get a rise and a also better performance out of her…Christine looks like she wants to murder them both and Mick Fleetwood is just like ‘I LOVE DRUMS!!!!!’”
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thinking again about the performance of Silver Springs where Lindsay stares at Stevie to get a rise and a also better performance out of her in a Dennis Reynolds kind of way, Christine looks like she wants to murder them both and Mick Fleetwood is just like &#8220;I LOVE DRUMS!!!!!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/P0uzHZ4GN4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/P0uzHZ4GN4</a>
— chatpile roan (@lornashawty) <a href="https://twitter.com/lornashawty/status/1815371603321962995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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That of course is to say nothing of John McVie, who plucks his bass guitar with a workmanlike fervor unencumbered by the fact that he’s standing just feet from his ex-wife.
It’s tempting to say that Buckingham and Nicks know what they’re doing. And of course, to a certain extent, they do. Whether they’re announcing a romantic reunion, a tour, a remaster, or some combination of the three, the pair is certainly aware of their image as a couple, and use it to their advantage.
Watch Fleetwood Mac perform, however, and it quickly becomes clear that the fiery core of the band that has spawned a new generation of fans has little to do with the band’s performative element. Of course Buckingham and Nicks glare at each other while performing “Silver Spring,” a song entirely about their breakup.
But watch their performance from the same concert of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBYHwH1Vb-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Chain”</a> — the only song on “Rumours” for which the entire band is credited, a hodgepodge of various songs each member was working on at the time they recorded — and you’ll see why the memes have made such an impact.
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Nicks is glaring at Buckingham like she hates him. Christine McVie looks morose behind her keyboard, while her ex plucks the bass, emotionless. And all the while, Mick Fleetwood bangs on his kit with a wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression that really cannot be described better than “I LOVE DRUMS!!!!!”
True rockstars are dying. Most of those still performing, like the Rolling Stones, have become punchlines because they are so clearly superannuated. But not Fleetwood Mac.
Mick Fleetwood is 78. Stevie Nicks is 77. Lindsey Buckingham a sprightly 75. They’re not jumping around like Bruce Springsteen, nor are they aging into respectable rocker tenure like Paul McCartney.
No, the members of everyone’s favorite transatlantic blues rock pop band are simply doing their thing, musically and personally. It’s why a bunch of twenty-somethings are as excited about their coquettish trysts as they are about their now-classic tracks.
Fleetwood Mac is simply, unequivocally, unchangeably real. They began as a totem of a rollicking and troubled generation. They became a cautionary tale for the same cadre as they aged. And now, in their golden years, they are a beacon for a new generation removed enough to see their promiscuity as fascinatingly anachronistic as their honest instrumentation.
So, are Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham getting back together? It really doesn’t matter. They’ve been given a new life, and their music has inspired a new generation to go their own way. That’s a legacy that means more than any of their songs or personal squabbles. And boy does it still sound great.

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As conservatives, we’re fond of praising marriage and family, and for good reason — marriage is both a cornerstone and a hallmark of a healthy society.
The conservative movement can’t seem to get its fill of telling young people to marry, settle down, and have kids. That’s fair enough. But unfortunately, eager to marry everyone off, conservatives tend to skip over one crucial detail: how exactly you get there.
For all their discussion of marriage, most conservatives don’t seem to touch the topic of dating with a 10-foot pole.
And to the extent they do discuss it, that discussion typically centers on the beginning of dating. They encourage men to make the first move and ask women out, or warn women against making the first move themselves. Or, their discussion centers on what not to do: don’t have sex before marriage, and definitely don’t move in together.
But no one talks about what healthy dating should look like. There’s no practical discussion of how to date in a way that’s likely to lead to marriage, or how to get to know someone and discern whether you should marry them while also maintaining healthy boundaries in the understanding that you aren’t yet married.
This leaves young conservatives caught between two flawed views of dating.
On the one hand, they’re faced with the destructive habits of their peers — hookup culture, casual dating, or even long-term dating relationships with no intention of marriage.
On the other hand, they’re confronted by the romanticism of the older generation and the ideal of the knight in shining armor, a perspective that mainly consists of strictures for the man to open the door, pay for dates, or show up with flowers, and for the woman to be “feminine” — bonus points for wearing a sundress.
While some of these principles have value, none of them address the actual day-to-day or week-to-week of dating, and it’s easy for them to turn into pressure to act a certain way simply to meet certain standards.
Perhaps it’s this black hole that accounts for the fact that, while <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/among-young-adults-without-children-men-are-more-likely-than-women-to-say-they-want-to-be-parents-someday/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/among-young-adults-without-children-men-are-more-likely-than-women-to-say-they-want-to-be-parents-someday/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752769347435000&amp;usg=AOvVaw11y2CTM9KUJuVUXxIYfD1v">69%</a> of those ages 18-34 who have never been married say they hope to be married, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/20/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-of-and-experiences-with-dating-and-relationships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/20/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-of-and-experiences-with-dating-and-relationships/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752769347435000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2wahDnfLqyjH79KwZEg2cG">a full 50%</a> of singles aren’t currently looking to date or enter a relationship.
Trapped between a hookup culture that leaves people feeling empty and broken and a romantic idealism that places performative pressure on both parties, many may decide dating is too difficult and that they have <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/20/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-of-and-experiences-with-dating-and-relationships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/20/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-of-and-experiences-with-dating-and-relationships/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752769347435000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2wahDnfLqyjH79KwZEg2cG">“more important priorities.”</a>
For those who do decide to date, there’s a relative dearth of older role models who exemplify healthy marital relationships, let alone healthy dating relationships. In <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/02/13/8-facts-about-love-and-marriage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/02/13/8-facts-about-love-and-marriage/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752769347435000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1t_puy52HWeCinUKRP1O3C">recent years</a>, overall marriage numbers have declined; divorces among older couples have increased; and the number of couples, including older couples, cohabitating with an unmarried partner has increased.
Add to that the chronic pervasiveness of utterly flawed dating perspectives online, and you’ve got a recipe for the current situation: one in which well-intentioned young people are left on their own, groping in the dark for wisdom to guide their dating lives.
This leaves many struggling to successfully navigate relationships. According to one survey, 67% of “daters” say their dating life is either <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/20/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-of-and-experiences-with-dating-and-relationships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/20/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-of-and-experiences-with-dating-and-relationships/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752769347435000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2wahDnfLqyjH79KwZEg2cG">not going too well</a> or not going well at all.
As a result, many relationships otherwise full of potential end up amounting to nothing, falling prey to miscommunication, social pressures, or other issues — many of which could be easily remedied with a dose of wisdom from an elder.
If conservatives are serious about wanting young people to get married, it’s time to stop simply preaching the merits of marriage and start offering practical advice on how to get there.
That starts at the individual level: older, happily married members of a community (like a church, for example) should come alongside younger members of that community, making themselves available to answer any questions those younger members may have.
This isn’t to say people don’t do that already. I’ve personally been blessed to have several members of my church walk with me in this manner.
But the same should also be practiced in society more broadly. Dating isn’t going to look the same for everyone—so influencers, commentators, and others in healthy marriages should share their personal stories of how they approached dating, offering examples of the ways to approach dating wisely.
Without these kinds of examples, we may stay stuck where we are now: a society where most people hope for marriage but few are capable of taking the necessary steps to achieve it.
Mary Mobley is an Editorial Fellow in the Strategic Communications department of the Heritage Foundation.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Three men were being paid by the Russian state to carry out arson and kidnappings to undermine European support for Ukraine and punish opponents of the regime.
The men were found guilty on Tuesday of torching a London warehouse containing Starlink satellite technology bound for Ukraine, and acting out the directives of the Wagner Group, &#8220;a private military organisation that acts on behalf of the Russian state,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k37x91vlo">according</a> to the BBC.
Jakeem Rose, 23, Ugnius Asmena, 20, and Nii Mensah, 23, were convicted of aggravated arson with intent to endanger life.
The getaway driver, 61-year-old Paul English, was acquitted due to lack of knowledge. Another man was convicted for knowing about terrorist acts but failing to disclose the information, and yet another was acquitted on the same charge.
The whole operation was caught on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYjhq3sJcuU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CCTV</a>. The perpetrators also livestreamed the arson along to the song &#8220;Spit of Gym&#8221; by Lowlemon, in typical Gen Z fashion.
The arson caused more than $1.36 million worth of damage.
The two ringleaders, Dylan Earl, 21, and Jake Reeves, 23, had already pleaded guilty to aggravated arson and violating the National Security Act. Both men have a history of dealing drugs.
Earl was the first person to be convicted under the United Kingdom’s National Security Act. After being arrested, he admitted to his role in a plot to kidnap Russian billionaire and expat Yevgeny Chichvarkin and burn his Michelin Star restaurant to the ground. Chichvarkin has been a vocal opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The men seem to have been motivated primarily by money. Though their handler refused to pay them for the Starlink incident, claiming that they “rushed into burning these warehouses without my approval,” he promised <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjkke22gv9o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$6,800</a> for other warehouses in East London.
Earl had also expressed allegiance to the Russian cause, prompting his handler to call him “our dagger in Europe.”
“We will be sharpening you carefully,” they added.
Earl exchanged hundreds of messages with his Wagner contact, named “Privet Bot,” over Telegram. The contact encouraged him to recruit “soccer hooligans, Irish republican militants and high-profile criminal groups,” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/three-men-guilty-over-uk-arson-attack-ukraine-linked-businesses-ordered-by-2025-07-08/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> reported.
The Wagner Group began as a state-funded “private military company” but “has been under the control of Russian state agencies and intelligence services since a failed 2023 coup,” according to British authorities speaking to The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/world/europe/hide-wagner-plot-kidnap-uk.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a>.
The Russian Embassy in London <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/three-men-guilty-of-arson-attack-ordered-by-wagner-group-on-ukraine-linked-warehouse-in-london-13393489" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> after the attack that &#8220;Russia has never engaged in sabotage activities against the United Kingdom and has no intention of doing so.”
They dismissed the claims of ties to the Wagner Group as a “malevolent campaign of anti-Russian scaremongering.”
The British government has cracked down on Russian foreign intelligence since the poisoning and attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal, a Russian double agent working for the United Kingdom, and his daughter in 2018.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve made the UK a hostile operating environment for those governments but, as a result, they&#8217;ve diversified and are now contacting relatively young people to act on their behalf as proxies in doing their activity,&#8221; Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the London police&#8217;s Counter Terrorism Command, stated.
Just last month in the United Kingdom, six Bulgarians were convicted of spying for Russia. The Associated Press has noted an <a href="https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/second-winner/2025/ap-team-creates-interactive-map-tracking-suspected-russian-sabotage-across-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increase</a> in Russian attacks across European countries since the start of the Ukraine war.
Murphy said it was &#8220;only by good fortune nobody was seriously injured or worse.”
The <a href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/how-cps-used-new-national-security-act-legislation-prosecute-plot-sabotage-ukrainian-aid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crown Prosecution Service</a> said that the convictions will &#8220;send a very clear message that this type of offending will not be tolerated on UK soil.”

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Isabel Brown, Gen Z firebrand and popular content creator, is bringing her unique blend of humor and cultural commentary to The Daily Wire.
Starting this fall, <a href="https://www.theconservateur.com/features/isabel-brown-launches-new-show-with-the-daily-wire">Brown will host an original series</a> on DailyWire+. Broadcasting from Washington, D.C., Brown joins a growing Daily Wire team in our nation’s capital. A new mom and Colorado native, Brown rose to fame posting her unfiltered thoughts on Instagram, where she now has over a million followers.
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I am SO excited to finally announce that my podcast, The Isabel Brown Show, has a new home with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a>!!
I have never been more passionate about fighting as hard as we can on offense to save the West. It’s time for us to not just *react* to the insanity of the upside… <a href="https://t.co/mUKxMHe8FJ">pic.twitter.com/mUKxMHe8FJ</a>
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb/status/1942222116817862859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On her show, Brown will tackle the same subjects she addresses on her social media pages — everything from pop culture to the pro-life movement — and bring viewers with her as she takes D.C. by storm with her family.
“Earlier this year, I transitioned into the most important role of my entire life: mom,” Brown said. “Seeing the world through my daughter&#8217;s eyes and a fresh perspective has only given me more passion for our generation to fight on offense as hard as we can for what is good and true and beautiful.”
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“Isabel Brown is sure to win over the hearts and minds of the Daily Wire audience with her common-sense takes, elegant humor, and intellectual prowess,” says Mike Richards, Chief Content Officer and President of Daily Wire Entertainment. “She brings brainpower, pop culture fluency, and the kind of fearless fun that causes liberal tears to flow like NPR tote bags at a Bernie rally.”
Daily Wire viewers will have plenty of time to get to know Isabel as they join her devoted community of “truth seekers” this fall.
But for now, here’s everything you need to know about The Daily Wire’s newest host.
<h3>She’s Fearless</h3>
Whether it’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DEpsnWPO5Br/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free speech </a>in the digital era, women’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DDaLn3yyqta/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biological identity</a>, or humanity’s most basic <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DCR_Iv8yDZu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">right to life</a>, Isabel proudly stands up for her views — even when they’re unpopular. She was among the first to stand up for <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DDXhxcxS6YO/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok’s</a> importance as a free speech platform, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DFOdldUug_4/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defends life </a>from the moment of conception, and even appeared <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C9Z5DDKuUEn/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on the cover</a> of Newsweek to champion conservative principles for Gen Z.
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<h3>She’s All About Faith and Family</h3>
Isabel grew up in a chaotic, loud, and very pink home, the oldest of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_qJa2fuBKC/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three girls</a> who loved to steal each other’s clothes and fight over who got to play with which American Girl doll. As a wife and new mom, Isabel is cherishing every second of her home life with her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C-VeLjEuI6J/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">husband</a>, Brock, their beautiful baby girl, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DKLDIgYNh8M/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Isla</a>, and, of course, her trusty sidekick, Liberty the Corgi. Guiding Brock as he converted to Catholicism inspired Isabel to take an even deeper interest in her faith, and she’s currently pursuing her master’s degree in theology at the University of Notre Dame. Go Irish!
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<h3>She’s Always On The Move</h3>
Despite all the time she spends online, Isabel’s favorite thing to do is spend time in the great outdoors. Isabel scaled her first 14,000+ foot peak in her home <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTcjRRaAYQy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mountains of Colorado </a>at 10 years old. She’s on a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CfejxLUJdXl/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quest</a> to visit all 63<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CxRmJ3EtHeY/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> National Parks</a> and has traveled to 24 countries, scaling peaks in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C0o__FFSnGA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Zealand</a>, road-tripping the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C-7tJxgu5-6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scottish Highlands</a>, and retracing the steps of Jesus in the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CiatG7FvjL8/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holy Land</a>.
She’s also a trained ram handler, thanks to her time caring for Colorado State University’s live mascot, CAM the Ram. Every weekend, she’d run with CAM on the football field in her boots to celebrate every touchdown, and spent many hours shearing sheep.
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<h3>She’s…Kind Of A Nerd</h3>
A self-described “certified theater kid,” Isabel has starred in “Hairspray” and “Les Misérables” and has seen nearly every Broadway production on stage. While she’s less likely to get dressed up for the theatre with a new baby at home, she loves singing &#8220;Wicked” and “The Sound of Music” at home with Isla.
She also loves sci-fi and fantasy, both books and movies — especially “Harry Potter,” “The Lord of the Rings,” and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C710k6SOXcK/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Star Wars</a>. She maintains to this day that “The Empire Strikes Back” is the greatest standalone film ever made, and actually cried driving through Glencoe, Scotland while listening to the “Harry Potter” film score. Don’t judge.

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WASHINGTON—Isabel Brown, a popular Gen Z cultural commentator and author, is joining The Daily Wire with a brand-new original series on DailyWire+, premiering this fall.
This move comes as The Daily Wire cements its position as a leading force in conservative new media, expanding its presence in Washington, D.C.
Brown <a href="https://www.theconservateur.com/features/isabel-brown-launches-new-show-with-the-daily-wire">announced</a> the news to her audience on social media and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1FcOQSDErM">YouTube</a> on Monday, saying that her daily show, based in Washington, D.C., will premiere on Daily Wire+ in the coming months.
&#8220;I have never been more passionate about fighting as hard as we can on offense to save the West,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;It’s time for us to not just react to the insanity of the upside down we’ve been living in, but to build culture and a new American Dream together.&#8221;
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I am SO excited to finally announce that my podcast, The Isabel Brown Show, has a new home with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a>!!
I have never been more passionate about fighting as hard as we can on offense to save the West. It’s time for us to not just *react* to the insanity of the upside… <a href="https://t.co/mUKxMHe8FJ">pic.twitter.com/mUKxMHe8FJ</a>
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb/status/1942222116817862859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“I have spent my career working with the world&#8217;s top media personalities, so I know talent when I see it,&#8221; Mike Richards, Chief Content Officer and President of Daily Wire Entertainment, said. &#8220;Isabel Brown is sure to win over the hearts and minds of the Daily Wire audience with her common-sense takes, elegant humor, and intellectual prowess.&#8221;
&#8220;She brings brainpower, pop culture fluency, and the kind of fearless fun that causes liberal tears to flow like NPR tote bags at a Bernie rally,&#8221; Richards added. &#8220;That’s the exact kind of chaos — we mean energy —we’re building at Daily Wire. She’s precisely the kind of voice we want turning up the volume at The Daily Wire.”
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Born and raised in the mountains of Colorado, Brown joined the fight for free speech and conservative values as a pre-med student at Colorado State University. There, she began livestreaming and building a vibrant digital community she has dubbed the “truth seekers.” Today, she boasts over a million followers on Instagram and a fiercely loyal audience that’s followed her from classroom debates to cultural showdowns.
Brown is best known for her fearless pro-life advocacy, viral reaction videos, and sharp takes on pop culture, politics, and policy. The D.C.-based Isabel Brown Show, coming to DailyWire+ this fall, will be a daily destination for anyone craving substance with style, blending Americana optimism with unapologetic truth.
This announcement rides in on a wave of momentum for The Daily Wire: fresh from dominating the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/how-ben-shapiro-conquered-maga-verse-trump-1236104674/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post-election</a> podcast <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/12/10/the-daily-wire-eyes-growth-investment-in-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charts</a>, playing a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/us/transgender-care-ban-tennessee.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">key role</a> in the Supreme Court’s affirmation of Tennessee’s child mutilation ban, producing <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/how-am-i-racist-matt-walsh-1236008035/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">box office</a> hits like &#8220;Am I Racist?&#8221;,  <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-censorship-cartel-garm-disbands-following-musk-lawsuit-ben-shapiro-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leading</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trump-ftc-secures-landmark-agreement-to-end-political-collusion-in-advertising-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">industry-disrupting</a> fall of global censorship cartels, and the platform’s <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/daily-wire-to-open-dc-branch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strategic expansion</a> into D.C., The Daily Wire isn’t just keeping pace — it’s setting the standard for conservative new media in America.
Before her time in media, Brown obtained degrees in Biomedical Sciences from both Colorado State University and Georgetown University. She&#8217;s currently pursuing a second master&#8217;s degree in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. In 2021, she published her first book,<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Frontlines-Finding-American-College-Campus/dp/1544519303" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Frontlines: Finding My Voice on an American College Campus</a>, sharing her encounter with radical leftism from the heart of America’s university experience. Her latest book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/End-Alphabet-How-Save-America/dp/1546006257" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The End of the Alphabet: How Gen Z Can Save America,</a> makes a compelling case for why Gen Z is the last hope to save Western civilization from the upside down Left, and why we shouldn’t write them off just yet.

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