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Alan Hahn, Ed.D., founder of Iron Academy and author of The Iron Academy: Forging Young Men for the Fight, is available to discuss the boy crisis, masculinity, and how to raise young men who can stand firm in today’s culture wars.

Fix the Boy Crisis: Raising Men Who Won’t Bow to the Woke State

Alan Hahn, Ed.D., is on the front lines of one of today’s most important—and explosive—culture war stories: the boy crisis and the future of young men in America.

As founder and head of a rigorous, all-male Christian school, Iron Academy, and author of The Iron Academy: Forging Young Men for the Fight, Hahn argues that if families and churches don’t intentionally form boys into principled, self-governing men, modern institutions and ideology will do it for them. He offers a rare combination: daily, in-the-trenches experience with middle and high school boys, and a big-picture view of how education, culture, and policy are reshaping masculinity.

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• “Strong men don’t just appear; they’re forged. If the church and the family don’t do the forging, the state and the culture will.”
• “Boys are being told that masculinity is toxic, that their faith is bigotry, and that the highest virtue is going along with whatever the state-approved narrative is. Iron Academy exists to produce the opposite kind of man.”
• “Our model is unapologetically biblical, all-male, and rigorous—academically, physically, and spiritually—because soft, confused formation is exactly what got us into this crisis.”
• “This isn’t about nostalgia; it’s about national survival. A free country cannot endure if its young men are bored, broken, and easily controlled.”
• “Parents still have far more power than they think. You can opt out, build alternative institutions, and raise sons who won’t bow to the idols of the age.”

In a news-focused interview, Hahn can speak to:

• How the “boy crisis” is showing up in classrooms: disengagement, fatherlessness, addiction to screens, and confusion about identity and purpose.
• Why he believes biblical, duty-centered masculinity is now countercultural—and why attempts to neutralize or pathologize masculinity are backfiring.
• Concrete practices his school uses to “forge” young men (honor codes, brotherhood, leadership expectations, physical rigor) and what any parent or community can replicate.
• The stakes if we get this wrong: what America looks like in 20 years if boys remain unformed, aimless, and easily manipulated.