Welcome, Dissident
“Rather than individual portraits, they are emblems of endurance, of man’s harmony with nature, their bodies as rooted in the earth as their digging forks.” - FT
That’s what a critic said about Jean-François Millet’s The Angelus.
Husband and wife. Tools down. Heads bowed. Land underfoot. God above.
Small in the world’s eyes. Massive in eternity.
This publication is for that man in the field.
For the father who feels the pull toward:
Faith in Jesus Christ.
Marriage that lasts.
A house full of kids.
A wife at home honored instead of mocked.
Land, neighbors, real food, real skills, real responsibility.
And who lives in a culture that treats all of that like a problem.
Dissident Dad is my answer to that.
I write for men and women who can feel the fracture. Who know something is off but don’t always have words for it. Here I name the decay, tell the truth, and talk straight to fathers and future fathers who want to build something that lasts longer than they do.
From that voice, a simple path:
Political & Civilizational Stance: to better understand who I am and where I stand.
Eternalist Generationalism: the way of seeing the world that explains the weight you feel. Either this life is all you get, or souls and generations are real and eternal. I write from the second option.
Kinward: the way of life that flows from that. Households, communities, homesteads, and enterprises rooted in place and ordered toward God, not the machine.
If you stick around here, the goal is not that you “consume content.”
The goal is that you become a father who lives differently.
What you’ll find here
I’m not here to rant and vanish. There is a real structure to this.
1. Dissident Dad Daily (Every Weekday)
A written news and commentary piece Monday through Friday, with a matching podcast monologue. Every issue ends with The Daily Table: a short reflection or prompt you can take straight to the dinner table that night.
2. Essays from a Father (Wednesdays)
More personal, weekly essays on raising kids, homestead life, building roots and community, trying to live this out in real time. The wins, the failures, the “we tried this and it kinda sucked” stuff.
3. Essays for a Hostile Age (Fridays)
The big cultural essays and series. Childless consumerism. The global industrial system that wants you isolated, infertile, and dependent. Schooling, tech, health, economy. All through that eternalist generational lens. Slow, heavier pieces you send to a friend and argue about for a week.
4. Dissident Dads in History (1st Monday of the Month)
Roughly monthly profiles of real men who fought, led, suffered, repented, protected, and built. Written essay plus companion podcast. A catalogue you can point your sons to and say, “Look. This is what it can look like.”
5. From the Writing Desk (3rd Monday of the Month)
Work in progress from the books I’m writing, like Alligator Snapping Turtle, about weekly hikes with my kids around a cranberry bog and the bigger questions underneath. Draft chapters, idea shaping, the messy middle of building something lasting.
Free vs paid
A lot stays free on purpose. I want as many fathers as possible to realize they are not crazy and not alone.
Some things are paid. Deeper personal essays, full archives, early access to book chapters, and certain projects that are better kept “in the house.”
Paid support is how I move toward a very concrete goal: swapping roles with my wife, getting our family out from under corporate dependence, and building Kinward in the open with other families.
If you believe in that, go paid.
If you can’t right now, stay, read, share, and start rebuilding your own household anyway.
Where to go next
If you’re new here:
Read a few of the Essays for A Hostile Age to get my head and spine.
Skim the Dissident Dad Daily to see how I handle the news and the Daily Table.
Read an Essay from a Father to see how this plays out in real life at my house.
When you’re ready to start building with us beyond the page, head over to joinKinward.com and see what we’re doing there.
Dissident Dad is the voice.
Kinward is the way of life that grows out of it.
Welcome to the fight.
