Scott Galloway vs. Culture-War BS

The Lincoln Project

Government, News, Politics, News Commentary

4.7 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Rick Wilson is joined by Scott Galloway—NYU professor, bestselling author, and unapologetic truth-teller—to talk about lonely young men, collapsing purpose, and a culture pretending the crisis isn’t real. Drawing from Scott’s newest book, ‘Notes on Being a Man,’ they cut through culture-war bullsh*t to explain how isolation, economic pressure, and algorithm-fed rage are pushing men toward the worst possible answers. This isn’t grievance politics—it’s a blunt conversation about reality, responsibility, different strengths, and what happens when society ignores the meteor until impact.
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0:00.0	Young Americans need to get out there and see how many wonderful, gay, trans, poor, rich, white Republican people there are out there and realize that as Americans, we've got a lot more in common and start developing connective tissue around being American as opposed to your identity, which usually involves making another identity, is holding you back.
0:22.0	Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped in battle-hearted.
0:28.2	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America.
0:36.4	Good night and good luck.
0:38.7	Hey, folks, welcome back to the Lincoln Project podcast.
0:40.7	I'm your host, as always Rick Wilson.
0:41.9	I'm delighted to be joined today by Scott Galloway.
0:44.7	I like to think of Scott as a friend of the show, and he is a tremendous thinker about
0:50.2	some of the issues that have informed more about our culture and politics than we
0:55.2	than we have really acknowledged. And that is the role of men in society right now. He has
1:00.1	written a tremendous new book called Notes on Being a Man. And I'm so thrilled you here, Scott.
1:05.6	Thank you. I want to jump right into it. And I love the arc you've told in this book of how we go from boys to young men,
1:13.1	to young adults, to men in full. And, and I want to ask you the obvious question. You've
1:20.5	talked about all these things on podcasts and in articles. What was it that led you to write
1:25.6	this piece right now? Well, I am a friend of the podcast
1:29.0	and a friend of yours right. Good to see you. Um, uh, the, the data is stark. If you walk into a
1:38.2	morgue and there are five people who've died by suicide, four are men. Uh, one and three men is in a relationship under the age of 30, two and three women.
1:47.6	And you think, well, that's mathematically impossible.
1:49.1	It's not because women are dating older because they want more economically and emotionally
1:52.5	viable men.
1:54.0	Seven and ten high school valedictorians are girls.
1:56.5	Men seem to be maturing later and later.
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