Whitney Houston’s Life Gave Him a Wife and Two Children

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“A reminder of how the yin and yang is infinitely present in everything.”

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Solitude is Sweeter, Having Been Appreciated

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How to understand the paradox of being celebrated vs. socially celibate.

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Reading For All Mankind: Stop Arguing, Start Listening

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A new book about knowledge in the Internet age reveals an important lesson about being a good man.

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Wild Cactus Dancer

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Rick Belden writes about the fully-consuming love that binds two people together—and how it ends.

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How Revenge Of The Nerds Ruined My Life

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If you think your only two choices are to be a nerd or a jock, writes Noah Brand, you are doomed from the start.

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‘Saturday Night Fever’ and the Social Construct of Masculinity

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Maria Pawlowska thinks more men should try to take after John Travolta’s character from the 70′s hit.

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In Praise of Metrosexual Men

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Quiet Riot Girl asks, “What’s not to like?”

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About a Boy and a (Temporarily) Secret Chord

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You might not be able to teach your son to love music, Jason Fry writes, but you can still put him on the right paths.

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Boyish Curiosity

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Megan Rosker sees the movie Tree of Life and is left with the idea that curiosity is what answers our darkest questions and spurs us forward as a collective community of thinkers.

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2.5 Men

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Uncle Woofie looks at the characters from the show Two and a Half Men and why, true to all situation comedies, they

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The World Missed Out On ‘Shame’

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Joanna Schroeder talks about Academy Award nominations gone awry and the complications of male “goodness” in films.

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Blind Casting: A Black Man’s Take on the Bechdel Test

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Christian Coleman takes a look at how black men are portrayed in some of the movies he’s watched recently.

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Marrying George Clooney

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Amy Ferris has very real, very specific fantasies of George Clooney. And she’s not alone.

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Binary Creatures Against the Gender Binary

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Sometimes we just need two robots to show us what humans can really be.

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Reading for All Mankind: Is Gossip a Good Thing?

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You’ll never guess what Andrew Ladd said about Joseph Epstein’s “Gossip.”

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The Men of ‘How I Met Your Mother’

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When it comes to combining comedy and the diversity of masculinity, Maria Pawlowska writes, not many do it better than Marshall, Ted, and Barney.

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