The SOBs want you weak and sickly

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

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I promise you, and my close friends and family can attest to this: I never set out to be a contrarian per se.

For instance, I contemplate the great works of Western civilization -- art, literature, architecture, etc. -- and I genuinely love them. I do not say: contrary to all of you, these works are abysmal!

When I'm looking for a fine restaurant, I don't avoid places that get good reviews, or hurry in to places that get bad ones.

But for heaven's sake, there is so much nonsense a thinking person has to dissent from nowadays that circumstances have forced me into my current position.

It isn't just academic disciplines like economics and history, bad as those are, or the virtual assurance that the local schoolteacher is going to fill your kid's head with nonsense. It isn't just that if I want the truth about foreign policy (in both Democratic and Republican administrations) the very last person I would consult is the White House press secretary.

It's that the nonsense extends to our health, too. Michelle Obama notoriously introduced "healthy" lunches into schools, and by this she meant low-fat this and nonfat that. Reports came back immediately that the children were too hungry to learn because the food wasn't nourishing enough, as any damn fool could have told her.

We don't even need to talk about Covid, because we all know what a fiasco of misinformation that was. (But if you dissented, you were the one guilty of misinformation!)

I've gone deep on this topic, I've lived it, and I can tell you with complete confidence: the conventional wisdom on exercise is as wrong as the conventional wisdom on economics, foreign policy, medicine, and schooling your children.

Murray Rothbard defined liberty as the absence of coercion. And in the political sense, that definition is absolutely correct.

But in a more colloquial sense, we may think of it more broadly, as Harry Browne did in How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. If you're sickly, are you really free in more than a theoretical sense? If you have to be helped on and off the toilet, are you free in any sense that means anything to you?

If we don't have strong bodies, and struggle with our health or, as we age, we have to be cared for by others, we do not have the freedom we should.

Most people who exercise regularly are not getting stronger. They are getting tired on treadmills, pushing light weights on machines designed to feel like exercise without functioning as exercise, and wondering in quiet frustration why nothing changes.

Machines are safe and simple to operate. They require no coaching, no expertise, no real instruction. They are good for the gym's liability exposure and excellent for the gym's bottom line. Meanwhile, the tool you really need -- the single most effective strength-training implement ever devised -- is sitting in the corner.

I'm no bodybuilding champ, but I'll tell you this: I'm a lot stronger than most men of my age and build, and my own kids have to scramble to keep up with me.

I started late -- I wasn't really doing it right until about 18 months ago, and wasn't doing anything at all a few years before that -- though lots of people start even later, and better late than never. I was a nerd in school. (I hate to break that to you.) I was not athletic at all. I was voted, among other things, "most intellectual."

If you're like me you've gone years -- decades, even -- saying to yourself: I should get in shape. I should take care of my body. But I don't have time, and I don't know what to do.

Well, today is your lucky day: the people in Woods World are about to get started on it together, and I'd like you to join us.

The evil bastards want us weak and sickly so we can beg for their bogus treatments, and I prefer not to give them the satisfaction. I trust you are with me.

I get it: you're busy. We're all busy. But there are some things you have to do, busy or not, and this is one of them -- both for yourself and for the children for whom you are setting an example.

And if you're going to do it, how better than via an instructor plucked right out of Woods World, and a colleague of one of my (enormous) repeat Tom Woods Show guests?

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We all tell ourselves we'll get to this someday.

Someday is today:
 
Tom Woods





 






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They really aren't hiring white men

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

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In 2023 the percentage of white men in tenure-track faculty positions at Harvard declined from 39 percent in 2014 to 18 percent. That doesn't happen by accident.

Oh, who cares about Harvard faculty, some will say.

But it reflects a society-wide problem. The architects of so-called DEI make it sound as if privileged white men are simply whining about the inclusion of others. That is not what is happening -- and you knew that, but you also knew fashionable opinion mocked the very idea.

That is, until Jacob Savage's Compact magazine article "The Lost Generation" came out some months ago. The numbers in that thing were absolutely relentless, and what made the article especially interesting was that Savage isn't even close to a right-winger.

Here are some other numbers we now know:
  • TV/Hollywood Writers: White men comprised roughly 48% of lower-level TV writers in 2011, dropping to 11.9% by 2024.
  • Medical School Matriculants: White men accounted for 31% in 2014, declining to 20.5% in 2025.
  • The Atlantic staff: In 2013: 53% male / 89% white; by 2024: 36% male / 66% white.
  • University Faculty Hiring (Tenure-Track): At UC Berkeley, white men comprised 52.7% of new tenure-track faculty hires in 2015, dropping to 21.5% in 2023. 
  • Humanities/Social Sciences Faculty Hires: UC Irvine hired 64 tenure-track assistant professors in humanities and social sciences since 2020 — only 3 (4.7%) were white men.
  • At UC Santa Cruz, of 59 assistant professors in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (2020–2024), only 2 (3%) were white men.
  • Law School Matriculants: White men accounted for 31.2% of law school matriculants in 2016, falling to 25.7% in 2024.
  • Corporate/Tech Entry- and Mid-Level (specifically Amazon): Entry-level “professionals” (college graduates) were 42.3% white male in 2014. By 2024, mid-level managers had fallen from 55.8% white male in 2014 to 33.8% (nearly 40% decline). 
  • Tech Workforce (specifically Google): White men represented nearly 50% of the workforce in 2014, dropping to less than one-third by 2024 (a roughly 34% relative decline).
Four years ago a survey of a thousand hiring managers in the United States came out that showed 16 percent of such managers had been expressly told to stop hiring white men. Further, 48 percent of hiring managers say they have been instructed to prioritize "diversity" over merit, and 53% believe they will lose their jobs if they don’t hire accordingly. 

I doubt much has changed since then.

I cannot fix this problem for everyone in America who's getting shafted. The best I can do is help my own readers.

I've built you a community of smart and like-minded people who are navigating their way through this hostile world via the connections and advice -- and yes, even job offers -- people get inside our accountability groups.

It won't fix every injustice, but it will fix some.

And even if you hate it (which is impossible), I have 11 free gifts for you that you can keep to compensate you if you think I wasted your time (but this will not be a waste of your time):
 
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