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Podcast #854: The Existential in Red Dead Redemption 2
People sometimes ask me what I think of video games. I think that, in moderation, they're a fine ...
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Men Without Chests
With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...
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Podcast #524: An Old School Boxing Trainer on What It Means to Be a Man
Teddy Atlas was born to a well-respected doctor in a wealthy part of Staten Island. Most kids like him ...
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Podcast #625: The Code of the Warrior
Editor's Note: This is a rebroadcast. It originally aired July 2020. War is a violent and bloody ...
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Podcast #765: C.S. Lewis on Building Men With Chests
Like Plato, C.S. Lewis believed that the human soul was made up of three parts — the head (the ...
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Podcast #744: What the Labors of Hercules Can Teach You About Life and Masculinity
You're probably familiar with the mythological tale of Hercules (or "Heracles" as the hero was ...
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Podcast #592: Being a Man in the Lousy Modern World
Emerson famously said "society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its ...
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Podcast #723: Men Without Chests
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are ...
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The Rites of Manhood: Man’s Need for Ritual
Does modern life ever feel excruciatingly flat to you? A bleak landscape devoid of layers, rhythm, ...
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Podcast #496: What Plato’s Republic Has to Say About Being a Man
Editor’s Note: This is a re-broadcast. This episode originally aired in April ...
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Podcast #684: Help for Those Stuck Between Boyhood and Manhood
You probably know a young man, or several, who's struggled to transition from adolescence to ...
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Looking for a Daddy, in All the Wrong Places
Today, Richard Rohr -- a Franciscan friar, author of numerous books on spirituality, and leader of men’s ...
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Inspiration in Steadiness From Band of Brothers Paratrooper, Carwood Lipton
During a season of intense stress in history, Carwood Lipton, an elite World War II paratrooper from the ...
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A Lesson From TR & Taft on Pursuing a Life You Like
I’m in the midst of a project to read a biography of every president. With most of the men, there’s a ...
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On the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day, Eugene B. Sledge Puts Your Problems Into Perspective
With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to ...
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What Does It Mean to Be a Man? 80+ Quotes on Men & Manhood
With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help ...
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Lessons from the Sioux in How to Turn a Boy Into a Man
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3 Lessons From Homer’s Odyssey
My favorite Homeric epic is the Odyssey. I've lost track of the number of times I've read it. While the ...
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The Way of the Monastic Warrior: Lessons from Major Dick Winters
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Can You Carry a Message to Garcia?
Editor's note: The following essay (which has been condensed from the original), was written by Elbert ...
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