Intelligent Masculinity

A series dedicated to reclaiming what true masculinity is - not an old, fragile masculinity of domination; rather, a new, intelligent masculinity built on accountability. sickofthis.substack.com

Intelligent Masculinity is a society podcast hosted by Nick Paro, with 44 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Nick Paro hosts Intelligent Masculinity, a society show with 44 episodes published.

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  Episode #36

  Intelligent Masculinity | With Jarrod Zisser

  May 29, 20261h 24mS1

  <p>Masculinity In Review</p><p>This episode reframes a conversation that the loudest voices in American culture keep trying to flatten. Jarrod Zisser — independent journalist behind The Take, Marine Corps infantry with two Iraq tours, and a man who walked away from a paying job a year ago to report from federal-occupation flashpoints — joins Nick Paro to do something the moment makes unfashionable: argue that empathy, self-reflection, and respect for the women who actually run our households are not threats to masculinity but the substance of it. The interview moves quickly from Iran and Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon to white...

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  Episode #35

  Intelligent Masculinity | With Jonathan Buchwalter

  May 29, 20261h 7mS1

  <p>Masculinity In Review</p><p>* Check out Jonathan’s sci-fi book series, The Night Sky Trilogy</p><p>Nick Paro sits down with Jonathan Buchwalter — a Holocaust and 20th-century U.S. history teacher, Shelton State adjunct, TikTok historian, and as of a few days ago the newly-elected chairman of the Tuscaloosa County Democratic Party — for a late-night, second-of-the-day Intelligent Masculinity conversation that moves from a 1930 Berlin landlord dispute to a 2026 American press conference without ever changing subjects. Jonathan’s argument, built brick by historical brick, is that the strain of authoritarianism running through American life right now is best read alo...

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  Episode #34

  Intelligent Masculinity | With Ann Kramer

  May 28, 20261h 8mS1

  <p>Masculinity In Review</p><p>Nick Paro sits down with Ann Kramer — a licensed therapist of more than thirty years, creator of the Life Puzzle model, and a clinician who long ago walked out of what she calls the disease model of counseling — for a conversation that begins with a 10-year-old’s temper tantrum and ends, by way of Elon Musk’s bunker, with a vision for a post-AI economy. Ann’s framework is deceptively simple: a human being is built from five edges — physical, emotional, thinking, sexual, spiritual — and the work of a life is filling them in, piece by piece...

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  Episode #31

  Intelligent Masculinity | E31 - Tim Whitaker

  May 8, 202632 minS1

  <p><p>“We are the freaking problem. We are the agent of chaos.”</p><p>~ Tim Whitaker ~</p></p><p>Masculinity In Review</p><p>Tim Whitaker walked into today’s Intelligent Masculinity discussion with years of experiences - through a faith community that raised him, a church that eventually removed him, and public-facing projects — Tim Whitaker Speaks and The New Evangelicals — built explicitly to help Christians find a path forward that doesn’t end in nationalism. This is the first half of a two-part Intelligent Masculinity sit-down, and Nick frames it accordingly: today is the wider cultural conversation; part two will be...

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  Episode #33

  Intelligent Masculinity | E33 - Ellie Leonard

  May 7, 20261h 1mS1

  <p><p>“When people don’t know you’re coming, they don’t know how to stop you. And so I feel like they don’t know I’m coming. And so I’m just tiptoeing in.”</p><p>~ Ellie Leonard ~</p></p><p>Masculinity In Review</p><p>Nick Paro sits down with Ellie Leonard — Substack writer, mother of four, and one of the independent journalists pulling Epstein survivor stories out of the place legacy media stopped looking — for a conversation that begins as a check-in and turns, by degrees, into an argument about who gets to tell which stories, what it cos...

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