Here's my 2-part plan to heal America's race/policing injustices based on human dignity while upholding the rule of law & the US Constitution. #TransitionalJustice tackles issues of police reform, truth commissions, #reparations, etc. (1) Reform Policing: blog.acton.org/archives/11655…
Part 2: Racial justice, racial healing, & racial solidarity that involves the whole community: government, faith-based organizations, schools, etc. We cannot properly talk about #reparations or racial reconciliation outside of #TransitionalJustice. fathommag.com/stories/finall…
Email, text, and RT these articles to your mayors, governors, state legislators, city council members, religious leaders, teachers, activists, non-profit leaders, business leaders, judges, law enforcement officials and begin the healing process one city at a time.
Click the link on the "Chicago Principles" in the articles and read @drcolleenmurphy's book to learn what transitional justice is. Prof Murphy helps explain why transitional justice works when other justice approaches (restorative, etc.) miss the mark: amazon.com/Conceptual-Fou…
Has transitional justice been tried anywhere? Yes! Since WWII in Germany, South Africa, Rwanda, etc. but only one US City: Greensboro, NC. America is so far behind and it's time to *finally* more forward. Your city could be next! amazon.com/Learning-Green…
I know a group of experts who work on transitional justice issues so if you'd like to have any of them meet with your local/state political, religious leaders, etc. to discuss making transitional justice happen near your contact me abradley at tkc.edu. #LetsGo
New York City has already initiated truth commissions to address racism but this is but one aspect of a broad, holistic social and community transformation advanced by a robust transitional justice approach. nytimes.com/aponline/2020/…
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🧵My Latest: We’ve been told for decades that kids are “resilient” after divorce. A new study tracking millions of children suggests something very different. The real effects don’t show up when you think they do. And by the time they do… it’s too late.
What’s most unsettling isn’t what happens right after divorce. It’s what shows up years later, in places no report card or resume can measure. Careers look fine. Life looks stable. But something else quietly breaks.
This is one of the most important pieces I’ve written about. It connects hard data with what therapists have seen for decades but couldn’t prove at scale. Most people won’t like the conclusion. But you won’t be able to ignore it.
Read it here: anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/the-quiet-ca…
Evangelicals don't have an elite problem. They have a formation problem. They raise bubble-wrapped cubicle boys and then complain about them later becoming passive men. Raised for passivity, destined for people-pleasing.
Aaron Renn (@aaron_renn) is right that evangelicals are missing from the commanding heights of American culture. No Big Tech, major finance, elite universities. But diagnosis misses this: The problem isn't weak institutions. It's what evangelical culture reliably produces.
Spend time in conservative Christian communities and a pattern emerges. Boys are raised to be responsible, polite, and safe. Failure is moralized. Ambition is redirected. Stability is celebrated. That's not formation for leadership. That's not formation for entreprenuers.
🧵New research just dropped and it challenges almost everything the culture wants you to believe about boys who grow up with violent fathers.
The headline finding is the one nobody wants to say out loud: Most boys who watch their fathers be violent do NOT become violent themselves. The intergenerational transmission story is far more complicated than the experts admit.
Boys across four countries were interviewed. They were not passive victims absorbing dad's behavior. They were moral agents making real decisions under terrible pressure.
We tell teenage boys: "Volunteer. Join that club. Lead that project. It'll look great on your college application." This is one of the most damaging pieces of advice we can give them. It's creating a generation of young men who are accomplished and adrift. Here's why: 🧵
This advice instrumentalizes virtue. It turns service, leadership, and hard work into mere tools for personal gain (careerism). The goal is no longer the good work itself, but the line it adds to a resume. This creates a deep and hollow "purpose-void."
True masculine virtue isn't found in curating a perfect resume. It's found in becoming a man who confronts chaos and solves problems. The meaning comes from the work itself—the intrinsic good of bringing order and overcoming challenges, not the narcissistic validation it brings.
Karen Horney has been my biggest influence in psychology.
She explained why “nice guys” burn out, why some become tyrants, and why others vanish into isolation. All of it comes from the same root. A quick guide 🧵
Horney (1885–1952) was a German psychoanalyst who broke from Freud. Forget Oedipus complexes—she said the real driver of human misery is deeper: Basic Anxiety.
Once you get this, people’s behavior starts making scary sense.
Basic Anxiety = feeling small, alone, and unsafe in a hostile world. Usually formed in childhood when love feels conditional. You can have a PhD, six figures, a family… and still live with it every day.
I’m old. At my church growing up, youth ministry was sex-segregated and led by the fathers (mostly in suits). Only the youth choir and Sunday School were co-ed. I didn’t see the wisdom in that—until I wrote my book on fatherhood. Here’s why, backed by research:
Black boys in America don’t just need mentors.
They thrive socially, economically, spiritually, etc. with deeply invested older Black men—especially fathers—who build trust with their family, speak into their identity, and walk with them as extended family.
A recent study found that Black youth don’t just benefit from one-on-one mentorship.
They thrive when mentors:
• bond with the boy’s family
• operate like extended family
• stay for the long haul
• and model what manhood looks like