[Note: There is a popular misconception that the ‘Gonad’ has a purely male association, most often being regarded the same as (and undifferentiated from) ‘Testes’ and ‘balls’, or ‘cojones.’ Females, in fact, also have ‘Gonads’, but they comprise the female ovaries. For clarity’s sake, the Gonads I refer to here are of the male persuasion.

Interestingly, whereas the phrase ‘Balls to the wall’ means, in aviation jargon, “full blast”, one cannot use that term with regard to a Sierra Hotel (“sh*t-hot”) female pilot. On the other hand, one could conceivably say “Gonads to the wall!” but as my sweet little wifie unceasingly reminds me, “Neva hoppin, Guailoh!”]

There have been a few recent articles appearing here and there in the conservative press about what has been characterised as the increasing ‘feminisation’ of America. That is certainly an evocatively pregnant thought (within a bio-reproductive context) and one that definitely made me pause for some reflection. The most recent article with his theme appeared in a late issue of the UK’s magazine, The Spectator.

One likely Spectator reader, in an associated comment, stated that the problem wasn’t so much “feminization” as “emasculation.” Interesting thought, that.

While I agree that virtual emasculation is a real-and-present fact among the radical progressive feminists, the problem is indeed feminization of American culture on the broadest conceivable scale, as I hope to elucidate

Another, closely related problem is that exceptional intelligence is not solely a masculine nuance. Women can be and are (inarguably) fully as bright and creative as men; the critical difference is that intelligence is also tempered considerably by hormonally-linked, (almost) exclusively female biochemical traits (such as intense emotionalism, sentimentality, nurturing tendencies and hyper-empathy). By and large, traits such as use of extreme physical force, excessive violence, destructiveness and hyper-hostility, are characteristically the sole venue of the male of the species.

Traditional American culture, such as it existed for several hundred years in the new American Republic of 1776, derived from a mix of cultural sources, but derived basic substance predominantly from the Northern European region. This ‘acquired’ set of customs continued, more or less undiluted until the Westward Expansion of America began in the 19th Century. At that time, everyone’s survival as the wagons rolled West depended upon both men and women working cooperatively and closely to assure avoidance of destruction. Westward heading families (in wagon trains) were almost without exception ‘good Christians.’

The men that migrated West at that time were therefore molded from clay that enabled male physical strength, protectiveness, defense against hostile threats (attacks by Indigenous American tribes) provision of wild (game) food sources being chief among them. Women, for their part in this cooperative system adopted by settlers, provided food preparation, bore children, took care of most domestic concerns (such as laundry, child-care, and care for minor illnesses and injuries). This successful cooperative association between the sexes depended utterly on each gender doing its part to assure successful thriving of all involved, both on a familial basis and collectively.

As the West began to be settled with the establishment of towns & communities in former wilderness in the mid-to-late 1800s, the ratio of men to women was roughly 2-1, although it is difficult to be more precise here, given the wide range of time covered and the exponential development of the new Western territories. Suffice it to say that females were a premium commodity back then, viewed in raw economic terms.

As a result, and given that there were hardly enough female prostitutes available in settled areas to meet innate male sexual urges, many women (looking for husbands) came West, once the Transcontinental Railroad had been completed in 1869.

Occasionally, enterprising Yankee traders imported women by ship (around Cape Horn and also from China), while some came West on the stage coaches from Missouri, but it was only after 1869 that a significantly greater number of “marriable” women began arriving in the frontier areas.

I say “marriable” due to the fact that with the exception of a few outlier religious cults (such as the Mormons, etc.), America was predominantly Christian and marriage was a convention that European-based norms demanded (i.e. a conventional Christian marital bond between the genders), to assure social respectability.

Many, if not all of the women coming West to seek husbands were therefore desirous not only of marriage, but moreover marriage to a well-off, respectable and reputable man. Since men of this higher caliber were at that time relatively few and far between, many women who settled for less reputable men wanted to nonetheless be respected by their female peers and the result was a never-ending effort on their part to ‘tame the wildman’ they had married and round off all of his rough corners, so to speak.

While they weren’t always successful in this desire, the pressure on men to develop into reputable (“civilized”) individuals was immense and unrelenting, if perhaps often somewhat subtle. Regardless, it was omnipresent and never-ending, and most any man when questioned will admit that in order to avoid constant ‘nagging’ and hectoring by his wife, that he would frequently accede to her wishes. This pressure to ‘become respectable’ was exponentially greater when children came along, prompting even greater need for gentrified ‘socially-acceptable’ status.

As the women came West, they brought refinement, culture and the “finer things” with them, as many had come from larger urban areas where cultural sophistication was a given norm in the higher social levels. This expectation to observe the social graces was therefore part and parcel of any ‘respectable’ marriage contract.

Robert Bly, that outspoken, apologist poet and champion of undiluted masculinity and raw male-hood, has often touched upon these qualities in his manly writings, and although hated by many of today’s feminist population who are aware of him (it’s hard to imagine any who aren’t), his works touch upon a raw nerve of undiluted masculine essence. And in my opinion, rightfully so, serving as it does as a beacon of bio-generic reality, awash in a sea of today’s hyper-feminized culture.

Up until the turn of the new century (1900), women increasingly continued to struggle against what they saw as an oppressive male-dominated culture in America. When the early women’s rights movement began to come out from the shadows and actively protest this (to their perception) unacceptable cultural oppression, the most notable result was being granted the right to vote equally with men in elections, both national and local.

From my admittedly chauvinistic viewpoint, at that time Pandora’s Chest sprang fully opened and a flood of demons was released that from that point to today have brought the full fury (or is it actually “the Furies?”) of long-suppressed female aspirations to the fore.

While traditional male chauvinism managed to survive from the early 1900s to our present day in America, traditionally masculine traits continued to be gradually diluted, chipped away at, and whenever possible utterly demolished. As a case in point, watching any 1940s ‘noir’ movie provides convincing evidence that male dominance in America was not just alive and well, but still fully functional. Granted that these films were typically fictional works by male Hollywood authors and screenwriters, but they served to reinforce the old patterns of strong men and compliant women extant.

By contrast, almost any modern film made prior to the ideological sea-change introduction of neo-Marxism in the form of Herbert Marcuse’s radical theories (prompting DEI, Critical Theory and racial inclusiveness, etc.) portrays “sensitive”, pensive, uncertain, indecisive and often “weak” or fundamentally flawed men who lacked confidence in themselves, their lives and their ideals.

Clearly, this void that soon developed in the neatly eviscerated core of traditional male nature promptly began to be filled in by the ‘New Feminists’ of the 70s, who exploited the new sensitive male model they helped create whilst paradoxically subsuming into and adapting formerly masculine traits themselves. Notable is that a number of these radical feminists had given up entirely on men and preferred female partners.

It is no coincidence that in this same period, that group of socially maladapt individuals who today declaim themselves to be LGBTQ+ came exploding out of the closet and aligned themselves with the new feminists. From the 70s decade to the present, this minority group (estimated at being about 9.3% of the entire US population in 2024) of disproportionately outspoken, bizarrely presenting individuals continued to be critical of what they vehemently describe as “white rightist fascists” whilst simultaneously adopting and manifesting many of those traits and characteristics they decry so strongly in white men. Radical leftist activists and advocates helped push these marginal people into the forefront, just about everywhere one looks. Leftist corporate media (including ALL of the major network broadcasting companies) continued to push that surreally fantastical agenda in every manner imaginable. Together, all of the above factors helped push feminization (what someone previously referred to as ‘emasculation’ of males) as a dynamic force that continues to wreak mayhem and disorder on all traditional American institutions.

Thus, for all practical purposes, the whole new anti-male paradigm may be separated into the 1) the leftist radical feminist (and their ardent and voluble proponents) element and 2) the vast majority of ‘fellow traveler’ sycophants who usually tend to be more left-of-center liberal progressives but are characteristically easily influenced and led by the first group’s persuasive, radical exhortations. This latter group tends to be comprised of much older females (and male ‘husbands’), as opposed to the much younger, idealistic and unrealistically externalized members of the former group. This ‘older’ group of females includes such groups as Christian church organisations that actively support homeless street people with food programs (“Feed the Needy”, etc.), a stance that aligns conveniently with their so-called “Christian charities” sentiments.

No one among them seems to reflect on the fact that in fact most truly hungry street people are only destitute because they waste what little money they make on drugs, cigarettes and harmful substances, instead of food and basic necessities. These benevolent groups therefore become solidly entrenched co-dependents in fanning the dilemma, all of which merely compounds the extant social problems exponentially.

An intensive look-around at our American cultural milieu today provides some thoughtful fodder for reflective analysis. Women may today fairly be said to be taking over a vast number of American institutions, including a majority presence in the law and medical professions, in broadcast media, in commercial corporations, churches and even capturing the traditionally male institution of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury (who is now a woman)!

Turn on any commercial “free” television station’s channel and you are treated to a steady stream of youngish females (many of whom could still be in high school, from the looks of it), filling key positions such as reports, news anchors, weather people. Such young individuals may easily be hired at vastly lower salaries than seasoned professional media people, of course.

Moreover, there’re ALL young women with the high-pitched voices that characterize very young women, and at least in solidly progressive Democratic California, they are disproportionately black and Latino, with identifiably ethnic surnames. Furthermore, most speak the same sort of Gen-Z patois their generational contemporaries manifest and whenever there are two or more of these young women appearing together, the nature of the “girlish” exchange seems like it would be more appropriate in a high school setting than in a medium of public broadcast.

Corporations, operated and controlled by wealthy white men almost exclusively, appear to be deliberately encouraging this use of “young” girly women in these positions and it should emerge as a clearly exploitative policy to anyone analysing the subject rationally and objectively (more powerful co-dependents). Add into this unholy mix of social dynamics extremely wealthy leftist political partisans such as George Soros and his son, and the aggregate exerts a huge influence on American society and its formerly long-enduring cultural traditions.

It is here of interest to note that not only are our colleges and universities generally leftist, these days, so are the nation’s preeminent law schools and even medical schools. Formerly (originally) equitably balanced organisations such as the ACLU and the SPLC have now also become fire-breathing radically leftists in both scope and nature; all incited and fanned to ignition by wholesale embracing of and encroachment by Marcusian neo-Marxism ideological dogmas.

So, yes. “Feminisation” of America is now so plainly obvious to anyone who still thinks and assesses rationally that it is all but a forgone conclusion that it is WAY past time for men to step up to the plate and reclaim their former status as co-partners with women in the living of our collective lives in American society.

I am reminded here of one of Chinese Communist leader Mao Tzedung’s many salient exhortations, to wit that “Women hold up half the sky!”

Back in Berkeley of the 70s, I was admittedly left of center in my own political outlooks (it’s almost a right of adolescent passage to be thus) and laboring under that outlook I truly believed that this aphorism of Mao’s was an ideal that demanded widespread recognition. What I didn’t realise back then, in the callow tenderness of my early 20s, was that that otherwise excellent and equitable observation by the CCP Chairman was not quite what it seemed. The actual reality was that Maoist China still persisted in subjugated women, as they had for several thousands of years, but it was a convincing propaganda twist that belied the actual ideological untruth behind that aphoristic statement that worked effectively, nonetheless.

I am also reminded of George Orwell’s famous book Animal Farm, in which Napoleon, the farm’s animal leader states “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Neither men nor women are “more equal” than each other.

In summary, while it is painfully obvious that women have been regarded as “second-class” citizens for far too long in America, and that this remains a grievous wrong that must be stridently corrected, that state of affairs doesn’t justify turning the tables on American men to relegate them to a subservient lesser status, either. “Hyper-feminisation” of America is therefore a most unhealthy and devastatingly harmful trend in this country that must be reversed without delay, if we are to survive as a nation into the uncertain future.

Personally, I’ll be happy if and when I can watch a commercial television news program that features both a mature man and an older woman who has a more ‘mature’ voice (or a younger one who has undergone some desperately needed voice-coaching). Perhaps in this context, it is time for ageism to be seriously addressed, as well, and an immediate return made to use of a more balanced mix of young and older, more mature individuals in visibly prominent public roles such as public media broadcasting...

NOTE: Following is an AI assessment of the main points presented here, delivered after a few of the above arguments were advanced. What haven’t been analysed are the assertions, assumptions and opinions that do not fall under the AI citations.

Here is a look at the numbers for the legal, medical, corporate, and LGBTQ+ populations in the U.S.

Gender Representation in Professions 

Your observation that women are taking over a vast number of American institutions, including the law and medical professions, aligns with significant demographic shifts in professional education and practice over the past few decades. 

 .....Law School Students: Women have outnumbered men in U.S. law schools since 2016. As of 2023, 56% of law school students were women.

• Practicing Attorneys: Women made up 41% of all U.S. attorneys in 2024, an increase from $36\%$ in 2014. The American Bar Association (ABA) has projected the decade from 2016-2026 to be the "Decade of the Female Lawyer," with the profession shifting toward a female majority as older, predominantly male, attorneys retire.
• Leadership: Progress is slower at the top. As of 2023, women accounted for only 28% of law firm partners. [More recent surveys (2025) submit that about 51% of all American lawyers are now female, such  that the legal profession now has a palpably pronounced female bias.]

The overall health care and social assistance industry is heavily female.

• Overall Health Care: In 2021, 77.6% of the $21.2$ million workers in the U.S. health care and social assistance industry were women.
• Medical School Students and Physicians: Women have also become the majority in the physician pipeline.
  • Women accounted for 54.6% of medical school students in the 2023-2024 academic year, having first become a majority in 2019-2020.
  • As of 2022, women accounted for 38% of active physicians, up significantly from $26\%$ in 2004.
• Specific Specialties: Women make up the majority of physicians in specialties such as Pediatrics ($66\%$ in 2022$), Obstetrics and Gynecology ($62\%$ in 2022$), and Dermatology ($53\%$ in 2022$).
  
  Gender Representation in Corporate Leadership

While women's representation is increasing across corporate levels, their presence remains lower at the very top of major corporations.

• Overall Management: In 2023, women accounted for 46% of all managers in the U.S., which is slightly less than their overall share of the total workforce ($49\%$).
• C-Suite Roles (Top Executives): In the S&P 100, women hold only 29% of executive positions on top leadership teams as of 2024, while men account for $71\%$.
• CEO Roles: Men are about 10.2 times more likely than women to be CEOs in the S&P 100.
• Corporate Boards: Women held 33.7% of S&P 500 board seats in the first quarter of 2025.

LGBTQ+ Population in the U.S.

The LGBTQ+ population has been increasing across recent generations, driven primarily by younger adults.

• Overall Identification: A 2024 Gallup poll found that 9.3% of U.S. adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual. This is nearly triple the figure from 2012 ($3.5\%$).
• By Generation: The greatest concentration is in the younger generations:
  • Generation Z (ages 18–27 in 2024): More than one in five ($22.7\%$) identify as LGBTQ+.
  • Millennials (ages 28–43 in 2024): 14% identify as LGBTQ+.
  • Gen X, Baby Boomers, and Silent Generation are all at $5\%$ or less.
• Sexual Orientation: Among all U.S. adults in 2024, $5.2\%$ identified as bisexual, making it the largest sub-group of the LGBTQ+ community.

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POSTSCRIPT: 25 Oct 25

Helen Andrews, author of Boomers: The men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster recently authored an article in Compact Magazine (16 Oct 25) titled ' The Great Feminisation ', which astutely delves into the subject of the oppressive  feminisation of America. Ms. Andrews, who clearly possesses keen analytical skills that I sorely lack, examines this hugely deleterious and disruptive social problem in one of the most concise and compelling summaries on this issue that I have come across. I strongly suggest that you read it for yourself, before radical feminists across the nation furiously prepare their stocks of tar and duck feathers to ride her out of town on a brass rail. MOST impressive!

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ADDENDUM (31 Oct 25):

The following is an opinion originally appearing on 31 Oct 25 in THE FEDERALIST. Coincidentally, today is Halloween, and this testimony on the feminising of our public educational system is to me scarier than any so-called 'horror movie' I can think of, off-hand, and it's pretty clear to me that there is no 'safe place' in our contemporary public elementary schools for boys... 

Men were driven out by the increasing feminization of schools, producing a vicious cycle of female-dominated schools     by Scott Yenor/FEDERALIST

"The absence of men creates a harmful imbalance in how America’s children are educated. Men, however, did not depart willingly. They were driven out by the increasing feminization of schools, producing a vicious cycle of female-dominated schools.

"Many blame exodus on male pride. Education, especially elementary education, is, critics say, “female coded.” Teachers earn less. Jobs in elementary education are not thought to be masculine enough. “We need to break down the gender stereotypes preventing men entering these large, high-growth job sectors” like education, argues the Brookings Institution’s Richard Reeves and others.

"Teachers, in fact, are paid more today than they were in 1970, in inflation-adjusted dollars. And “stereotypes” (if such they are) were arguably much stronger in 1970 than today.

"Feminist ideology and the spiritual dominance of women (what author Helen Andrews calls “the great feminization”) in elementary education dissuades men from even considering work in elementary education. It turns out, not surprisingly, that men make rational decisions in the face of feminized institutions like elementary schools.

Schools in the Seventies

"Picture schools in 1970. The idea of social promotion (where students would stay with peer groups and be promoted regardless of whether they had mastered material) was just catching on. As many as 5 percent of students were still held back in grades. Schools had clear rules and real consequences for violations. Public schools administered corporal punishment in 1970 — it was legal in 49 states (only New Jersey had banned it) and practiced in as many as 70 percent of school districts. Students would write “I will not talk in class” on the chalkboard 100 times for speaking out of turn, a punishment I was subjected to in the 1980s. Uniforms were common. Dangerous play happened at recess, as did many injuries, but was considered part of growing up. Drills, repetition, and rote memory were still common teaching practices. Students still got Cs (or, dare I say it, Ds and Fs) in 1970.

"The 1990 movie “Kindergarten Cop,” where Arnold Schwarzenegger plays an FBI agent going undercover as a kindergarten teacher, captures this well. Arnold’s character emphasizes boot-camp discipline, marching in line, enforcing rules, and drills-based learning to the kids. His quaintly out-of-season methods make for laughs, as do the cute, politically incorrect things that the students say (several kids from the movie would, no doubt, be sent to sensitivity training today if they uttered the same things).

Feminization of Schools

"Today’s schools emphasize belonging and nurturing at the expense of objective standards. Barely anyone is held back in today’s schools. Handing work in on time is increasingly optional. Fewer than 25 percent of students get grades below a B across the nation, though fewer than that read and do math at grade level. Even such loose grading, we are told, stigmatizes students too much. Teachers have difficulty maintaining classroom discipline. Uniforms are out, as is rote-learning or memorization. Safetyism dominates recess. Games and recess are monitored. Physical fitness was, until recently, not as important as kindness.

"The healthy mix of nurturing from typically female teachers and male standard enforcement from kindergarten cops is a thing of the past. As a result, men are generally less interested in working in elementary education.

Influence of Education Schools

"Education schools initiated this change in educational outlook. In 1970, around 65 percent of the faculty in schools of education were male. By 2021, the number is substantially lower.

"Faculty for elementary education majors are even more overwhelmingly female and leftist. Among the 15 Southeastern Conference schools of education with elementary education majors, 28 percent of the elementary education faculty are males (80 out of 285). Twenty-six percent of the elementary education faculty are males in the 18 Big Ten schools (88 out of 340). In Texas, 26 percent of the 660 faculty affiliated with the state’s 33 elementary education programs are males. Twenty-six percent of the faculty affiliated with Idaho’s elementary programs are male as well.

"Elementary teaching is not coded female in the nature of things; it has become dominated by an ethos from a particular kind of female.

"Elementary schools outside the normal certification process still recruit men to teach young boys. All-boys’ schools with an emphasis on discipline, academic standards, and physicality attract male teachers even in elementary schools. Four of the top five largest all-boys’ private schools in the country have faculties that are more than 75 percent male (Haverford School in Pennsylvania; St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas; and The Browning School and Allen-Stevenson School in New York City). This is typical, of course. Men are interested in raising honorable, self-controlled boys into men. Schools that infantilize boys do not interest male teachers.

"Men do not simply want enough money or prestige from their jobs. They want missions they can believe in. Today’s public elementary schools fail that threshold question — efforts to recruit and advertise do not address why men have left public elementary school teaching. Men should be given enough credit to know where they are not wanted."

Reprinted from THE FEDERALIST. Scott Yenor is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation and Washington Fellow at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life.

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ADDENDUM: 10 Nov 25 (reprinted from THE FEDERALIST)

Mamdani’s Vast Support Among The College-Educated Tells Us All We Need to Know About Higher Ed

New York City’s election suggests that higher education must undergo significant changes to prevent socialism from taking over America...

"Voters with a bachelor’s degree or higher largely supported Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral race. As political analyst Byron Yorknoted on X.com, “the non-degreed tried valiantly to save the city from the degree-holding horde. There just weren’t enough of them.” The election results suggest that our higher education system is broken and must undergo significant changes to prevent socialism from taking over America.

"In 2023, Jacobin, a prominent socialist publication, recognized a significant shift in academia, noting that many universities have openly adopted Marxist ideology and associated radical concepts, such as Critical Race Theory (CRT). For countless students, the college experience has shifted from learning critical thinking and employable skills to ideological indoctrination, with Marxism, CRT, anti-capitalism, and anti-American sentiment permeating classrooms.

"A striking example emerged before the recent election when a video of Mamdani’s father, Mahmood Mamdani — a professor at Columbia University — went viral. In the video, he says “America is the genesis of secular colonialism … The Nuremberg laws were patterned after American laws.” Hitler learned genocide from Abraham Lincoln, he implies. Most Americans would likely reject such extreme viewpoints; however, on college campuses, these ideas are not only prevalent but are being instilled in students during their formative years by leftist professors.

Uneducated and Misplacing Blame

"Many college students lack the intellectual tools to resist radical views because they have not been taught the counter-arguments. For example, they often do not learn about the failures, including the significant destruction and human toll, of socialism and communism in places such as the Soviet Union and China. Furthermore, students often fail to understand that it was free-market capitalism, not socialism, that has halved the global poverty rate. Many students are also unfamiliar with basic economic principles, such as the idea that raising the price of a good leads to reduced demand, which is why taxation has limited effectiveness in raising revenue. 

"After four years of ideological conditioning and insufficient acquisition of essential job skills, many college graduates today face an average student loan debt of about $38,375 (as of 2024). Alarmingly, over half of these graduates find themselves underemployed, a status likely to persist even a decade post-graduation. They form a credentialed class caught between the elite and the working class. This group often misplaces blame, believing that capitalism and the market are responsible for their unaffordable living costs, overwhelming student loan debts, and inadequate earnings to support the elite lifestyle they feel they deserve.

"Many believe socialism is the answer, providing their desired benefits such as a rent-freeze and free childcare. Ironically, despite their education, the credentialled class fails to see that the government policies they support, such as rent control, only make affordability worse.

According to Pew Research, the share of Americans ages 25 or older with a bachelor’s degree had grown from 30.4 percent in 2011 to 37.9 percent in 2021. As this credentialed class continues to grow, it is no surprise that more young Americans are gravitating towards socialism. A recent survey indicates that 62 percent of American adults under 30 hold a favorable view of socialism, a stark rise from just 49 percent of Gen Z in a similar poll in 2020.

"In addition, more American women than men aged 18 to 34 in the U.S. have earned a bachelor’s degree. College-educated women are increasingly leaning left compared to two decades ago, establishing themselves as a crucial support base for progressive policies and candidates. In the 2020 presidential election, an impressive 65 percent of female voters under the age of 30 supported Democrat Joe Biden. In the New York mayoral race, young progressive women who formed “Hot Girls 4 Zohran” have made socialism both appealing and trendy for many who might otherwise be put off by the term.

"This credentialed class is not just reshaping the political landscape; it is actively driving politics further to the left. It’s no surprise that self-identified socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal advocate for bold initiatives such as canceling student loans and providing free college education. As long as left-leaning administrators and professors maintain control over our colleges, the growing number of graduates will likely bolster this credentialed class, accelerating our societal shift towards socialism.

Alternatives to the Broken System

"The higher education system in the United States is undeniably broken. Despite receiving billions of dollars in government funding, universities and colleges continue to raise tuition at a rate that outpaces inflation, irrespective of their graduates’ success. It’s time for state and federal governments to reduce funding for higher education, using financial pressure as leverage to drive essential reforms. Those should include dismantling departments or majors that offer overpriced and ineffective degrees to ensure that students receive quality education that truly prepares them for the future.

"Meanwhile it’s essential for American families and businesses to respond by seeking alternatives and supporting innovative education options. Fortunately, there are already a variety of alternatives available.

"For example, the foundation established by Mike Rowe, the host of Dirty Jobs, provides scholarships specifically designed for high school students who want to pursue skilled trades instead of following the traditional college route. Additionally, leading tech companies like Amazon and Google offer free online courses and certification programs, enabling students to develop in-demand skills in thriving fields such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

"One standout initiative came from Palantir, which has launched an internship program for high school students. The program includes lectures on fundamental topics rarely covered in college, such as the foundations of Western civilization, U.S. history, and the value of defending Western ideals. Interns are integrated into production teams, allowing them to work on real-world projects. Palantir aims to hire those interns who demonstrate exceptional potential, providing a pathway to the workforce without college. The company received more than 500 applications from high school students and it selected 22 of them. The high number of applications showed that there is strong demand among families for such alternative educational opportunities.

"The recent election of Mamdani as mayor of New York City raises vital concerns about our higher education system, which is increasingly becoming a breeding ground for indoctrination of young people. If we do not confront this issue decisively, we may unwittingly pave the way for socialism taking over American society in the future."

Helen Raleigh, CFA, is an American entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. She's a senior contributor at The Federalist. Her writings appear in other national media, including The Wall Street Journal and Fox News. Helen is the author of several books, including "Confucius Never Said" and “Backlash: How Communist China's Aggression Has Backfired." Her latest book is "Not Outsiders: Asian Americans’ political activism from the 19th century to today.” Follow her on Twitter: .HRaleighspeaks