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Category Archives: Masculinity
When Men Were Not Afraid
Before I fall asleep at night, I like to watch Youtube videos of Dallas Cowboys games from their Super Bowl winning 1977 season. I’m struck by the ease and confidence of the announcers. Sometimes, however, the men can be too … Continue reading
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The Silent Son
A young Orthodox man at twenty-three, raised in Pico-Robertson, schooled at a yeshiva, sitting next to his father at the Shabbos table. He has been using oxycodone for two years. He has not told his parents. He has not told … Continue reading
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Aaron M. Renn – The Consultant and the Cathedral
Aaron M. Renn approached American Christianity as a consultant who had spent fifteen years diagnosing institutions under constraint. That formation explains his tone, appeal, limits and influence. He was born in October 1969 in Laconia, Indiana, a town of roughly … Continue reading
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Are There Anti-Male, Anti-White Spaces?
I’m an ally, girls! I just watched the first episode of the TV show The Closer and I loved it! I’m a fair dinkum ally! It was compelling and hilarious and painful to watch the anti-female prejudice the lead character … Continue reading
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Train Dreams (2025)
LF: “This movie hits on something I see all around me – many men want to meet all their interpersonal needs through their family and work. That makes you vulnerable. In this story, the protagonist is lucky that a woman … Continue reading
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The Emotional Logic Behind Young Men Bouncing Between Online Far-Right Spaces And Self-Help Culture
A lot of people treat the pipeline between far-right online spaces and self-help culture as a political problem. It’s not. It’s an emotional pattern. Young men bounce between these worlds because both offer the same thing in different costumes: a … Continue reading
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The Right’s Masculine Revival
There is a real masculinity revival on the right, but it lives next to a lot of LARP and a lot of marketing. You have to sort out who is speaking from lived experience and who is selling a costume … Continue reading
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What Jordan Peterson Can Teach Church Leaders
Aaron Renn writes in the WSJ: Mainstream institutions and authorities—churches, schools, academia, the media—could learn a few things from the online gurus about how to speak to young men effectively. Young men today often feel as if their needs are … Continue reading
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10 Pillars of Masculinity | Aaron Renn
Aaron Renn writes: The ten pillars I discuss are: Identity. Mission. Agency. Virtue. Knowledge. Wisdom. Fraternity. Every man needs a band a brothers. Family. Suffering. Legacy. What are you going to leave behind when you are gone?
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How Richard Reeves is making it acceptable for the center-left to address the challenges facing today’s boys and men
Aaron Renn writes: I think it’s important to have people on the center-left talking about men’s issues. If we care about actually improving the lives of men, then we don’t want the goal of helping men flourish to become partisan … Continue reading
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