Grant R. Martsolf

2 days ago | aei.org | Brad Wilcox |Grant Bailey |Chris Bullivant |Grant R. Martsolf

Op-Ed Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise? Op-Ed Is the Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion? By | Chris Bullivant | Grant Martsolf Op-Ed What’s Holding Women Back from Starting a Family?

2 weeks ago | aei.org | Brad Wilcox |Chris Bullivant |Grant R. Martsolf

It’s been just over 40 years since Springsteen’s bestselling Born in the USA came out in 1984 — an album with “a rowdy indomitable spirit,” as Debby Miller wrote in Rolling Stone at the time. The melodies suggested a deep optimism but the lyrics were primarily concerned with “people … getting left behind” full of foreboding of the fate of small-town America and the working class in the face of deindustrialization. Springsteen could see what was coming.

Feb 13, 2025 | schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Kurt Vonnegut |Jack London |G.K. Chesterton |Grant R. Martsolf

A few weeks ago and I had the pleasure of speaking with as part of the podcast series by the Beatrice Institute, an eucumenical learning and research community which serves all who “pursue beauty, truth, and goodness”. Recent episodes include Progressing Toward Apocalypse with ; Can We Rebuild the American Trades with Jacob Imam; and The Fate of Post-Industrial Man with (author of Of Boys and Men).