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The Sensitive Young Meme March 12, 2025
One of the most beautiful paintings in the Caspar David Friedrich show The Soul of Nature, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11, shows a roiling ocean crashing against a rocky coast by moonlight. The tiny figure of a monk stares o...
Are Men OK? March 12, 2025
On November 21, 2024, Richard V. Reeves stood in a greenroom at The Washington Post’s third annual Global Women’s Summit. Reeves, the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men (AIBM), was the only man in a lineup that included former Democ...
On Sports Gambling Regulation & Sports Gambling March 10, 2025
“Gambling is inevitable. No matter what is said or done by advocates or opponents of gambling in all its various forms, it is an activity that is practiced, or tacitly endorsed, by a substantial majority of Americans.” So begins a 1976 report from th...
Barbarians at the Gate March 06, 2025
Ten days or so ago, at the end of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, I found myself at a party. I’ve been to these sorts of things before, and more often than not they have been insufferable affairs: sweaty frat basements reeking of...
T.S. Eliot and the Need for Lent March 06, 2025
Recent surveys indicate the decades-long ebb in religious observance has finally bottomed out. Last month, Pew Research released data indicating that the declining share of self-identified Christians in America has stabilized around 62 percent. Other...
I Coulda Been A Contender... March 05, 2025
Nothing soothes a broken heart like watching two men beat the hell out of each other. It may not cure it, but the tender mercies can be assuaged watching sweat and blood pounded off a man’s body with the physicality of venom and singular, rabid deter...
The Sex War March 05, 2025
Among conservative men, one often hears the claim that feminism has contributed to the destruction of Western civilization. Ideas such as “toxic masculinity” were openly ridiculed. It is certainly the case that divisive feminist rhetoric made the fat...
Young Man, There’s No Need to Feel Down February 27, 2025
To understand how much work Democrats have to do to reverse their slide among young men, a key factor in President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, look no further than the “Who We Serve” section of the Democratic Party’s website....
The Power of American Originals February 26, 2025
“In the US, voters just loosed a genuine bull into the china shop of the ruling class.”Karl Zinsmeister, 2025BACKBONE: Maverick Essays in Middle America: Why American Populism Should be Welcomed, Not Feared is a collection of short essays about Ameri...
Andrea Dworkin Was Right About Men February 25, 2025
If I were Andrea Dworkin, I’d be glad that I was dead. When the radical feminist writer succumbed to heart disease aged 58, it seemed tragically young — but at least she avoided the undignified spectacle of the fourth-wave feminists of 2025 wincing o...
Man of the West February 24, 2025
For all its wealth and high-minded principles, America owes everything to desperate men willing to kill and die for a little freedom and maybe a patch of dirt to call their own. As a man of the West, Sam Peckinpah, legendary director and screenwriter...
The New Control Society February 24, 2025
Let me tell you two stories about the Internet. The first story is so familiar it hardly warrants retelling. It goes like this. The Internet is breaking the old powers of the state, the media, the church, and every other institution. It is even break...
The Future Childless Cat Guys February 20, 2025
Biology has afforded men certain existential comforts. We are obsessed with women’s reproductive clocks, the idea that if they get married and have children when they’re still young they’ll be relegated to Cat Lady status forever. And in truth, we do...
On the Clock February 19, 2025
It is an unusual thing for Hollywood to walk back across the ground that Steven hath trod. Whole subjects become untouchable once Spielberg folds up his director’s chair. The era of truly epic shark films began and ended with Jaws. No more boulders w...
What’s The Point Of Bill Gates? February 18, 2025
I started reading Bill Gates’s new memoir Source Code the day after David Lynch died. In between learning about his pioneering BASIC coding language, I struggled to grasp what Laura Dern was saying in Inland Empire. In many respects, the two couldn’t...
It's Always High School February 18, 2025
The writer Elizabeth Ellen earned my admiration in October of 2022 when, as the Deputy Editor of literary journal Hobart Pulp, she defied the then-reigning orthodoxy of cancellations and speech-policing and published an interview containing taboo, fo...
What Does It Mean to Be a Man? February 17, 2025
In a world of eunuchs, buffoons, and beasts, we need new heroes....
The Valentine's Day Erotic Economy February 14, 2025
I learned in the booklet in my recent Tokyo Treat box that Valentine’s Day in Japan is traditionally celebrated almost exclusively by women gifting chocolate to men. Most all other customs and gifts of the United States — date nights, flowers, cards ...
A Western About Cowboys, Indians … and Mormons February 13, 2025
Overall, American Primeval, the new Western on Netflix which takes place in the early days of Utah’s settlement, is a good show—in a directional sense. That is, it is enjoyable because it represents a step in the right direction. On the one hand it a...
My Afternoon With the ‘Normal Gay Guys’ Who Voted Trump February 11, 2025
Not long ago I went to a party at a penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A young man in a tuxedo greeted me at the door and ushered me into a well-appointed living room, where a fire glowed in a corner and prints of ancient Greek temples overloo...
The Haunting Fiction of Han Kang February 11, 2025
A woman is walking along a cold seaside plain lined with thousands of black tree trunks. Together, the trunks create “the impression of a thousand men, women, and haggard children huddling in the snow.” Surely, she tells herself, this is a graveyard....
Where Did All the Good Bars Go? February 11, 2025
It’s easy to romanticize the good old days. Back when men wore suits and we didn’t know red meat was bad for us and there were trout in all the rivers. Yes, everything was better in this mythical past we never knew. But let’s acknowledge one thing th...
The Downfall of Ibram X. Kendi February 07, 2025
Every era has its grifters, gurus, quacks, and frauds. This is an American tradition, from the snake oil salesmen to the pyramid-schemers to the New Age prophets of the twentieth century. One might be tempted to dismiss them as ethically compromised ...
Biohackers Can’t Cheat Death February 04, 2025
Two things are true about Luddites. The first is that they are often vindicated in their concern about dramatic technological change, a process that often flies under the name of “progress.”The other is that they lose. No one can stop the future from...
The Most Anticipated Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2025 February 04, 2025
THE NEW YEAR brings resolutions, exciting new TV shows and movies, and for readers everywhere, new books. You probably already have a long and ever-growing list of books to read next, but the thrill of new releases from your favorite authors (or a de...
