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.

  • Men, #MeToo, And Mommy Issues

    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 Trouble With Men

    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.

  • 120 Years Ago, Dostoevsky Explained Trump With Remarkable Accuracy

    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…

  • Does Anyone Hate Donald Trump More Than Donald Trump? An Interview With David Shields

    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…