David Shields
David Shields is an international best-selling author. Read his latest books The Trouble with Men and Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump here.
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Men, #MeToo, And Mommy Issues
Recently watching Alexis Bloom’s excellent 2018 documentary about Roger Ailes—Divide and Conquer—with my wife, Laurie, I wondered aloud what possible fulfillment he could have derived from such flatly transactional sex with his female subordinates. “The sex isn’t about pleasure,” Laurie said. “It’s about humiliation.” Ailes was a hemophiliac. His mother carried a gene for the…
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The Trouble With Men
The following is an excerpt from The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power , a new book by David Shields. This book aims to be a short, intensive immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. What is this way? How did I get this way? Our marriage involving this way.…
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120 Years Ago, Dostoevsky Explained Trump With Remarkable Accuracy
In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky describes the patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich: “He was a strange type yet one rather frequently met with, precisely the type of man who is not only worthless and depraved but muddleheaded as well—one of those muddleheaded people who still handle their own little business deals (if nothing else) quite skillfully….He was…
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Does Anyone Hate Donald Trump More Than Donald Trump? An Interview With David Shields
A conversation with David Shields David sits down with Leah Paulos to discuss his new book, Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention, a psychological inquiry into Trump’s brokenness, a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, and a satirical compilation of the wit and wisdom of Donald Trump. Above all, it functions as…