Today's edition of the Federalist Radio Hour deals with ideas and language that may not be suitable for parents listening with young children.

Listen to discretion is advised. Thanks so much for tuning in. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jisinski

Culture editor here at the Federalist as always you can email the show at radio at the Federalist

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com as well. Today we're joined by Alex Kuzeme.

Alex is the author of New Millennium Boys Fascinating novel.

You can find more on Alex at his website Alex Kaseme, K-A-Z-E-M-I-com.

Alex, welcome to the show.

Hey Emily, how are you doing today?

Great, you have such an interesting background. This isn't your first book you've written before.

Can you just tell us a little bit for people who might not be familiar with your background about what led you to writing New Millennium Boys?

Yeah, I kind of, you know, started in the infantile days of the cultural or where, you know,

Bryce and Ellis would be reading out my opinions on social justice

culture and just things on his podcast which led me to kind of dabbling with the

the cultural commentary in that time in around the 2016 era that we all kind of remember of the birth of, you know, an aversion to the left, social justice, and

extremity, and things like that.

And so my kind of criticisms around the world

were kind of really around male culture

and masculinity and sort of looking at the way that young men are

socialized through liberal media and the capitalist MTV driven society, especially my generation.

So New Millennium Boys was sort of my critique

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