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Engaging the Gender Gap

October 3, 2012 By Eric Sentell 29 Comments

Eric Sentell urges good men to teach themselves and their sons to engage with learning and with others before the gender gap becomes a chasm.

Filed Under: Education, Featured Content Tagged With: awareness, Boys, career, college, distracted, economy, education, effort, engagement, enrollment gap, Entrepreneurship, gender differences, gender gap, goals, higher education, knowledge, men, participation, patience, persistence, post-secondary education, problem-solving, professional, relationships, smartphones, success, TV, Video Games, Work

Are State Lotteries a Good Idea?

September 16, 2012 By Brandon Ferdig 3 Comments

Brandon Ferdig wonders whether his state of Minnesota should gamble on its citizens’ susceptibility.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values Tagged With: addiction, budgets, economy, ethics, evil, gambling, good, lottery, lotto, Minnesota, money, moral hazards, personal finances, revenue, scratch-off tickets, Sin, state lotteries, wildlife preservation

Why I Borrowed Even Though I Could Have Begged

September 11, 2012 By Albert Okagbue 1 Comment

Financial independence is not within the reach of most young adults, but pride may prevent them from asking for help, anyway.

Filed Under: Money, Quarter-Life Crisis, The Good Life Tagged With: asking for help, Austin Texas, college tuition, cost of living, debt, economy, expenses, family, independence, kansas city, loans, money, quarter-life crisis, scholarship, school expenses, student debt, student loans, University of Missouri, young adulthood, Zimbabwe

Reinvent and Relearn: A Response to NY Times Op-Ed Columnist Thomas Friedman

September 9, 2012 By Lisa Hickey 6 Comments

Learning to reinvent and relearn is often scary. But doing it together — as men and as humans — might be the only thing we can do.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: Alvin Toffler, Bill Clinton, change, economy, education, Lisa Hickey, males, men, NY Times, President Obama, progress, relearn and reinvent, rules, Stereotypes, The Good Men Project, Thomas L. Friedman

It Doesn’t Matter Who Wears the Pants: A Response to Hanna Rosin and The New York Times

September 2, 2012 By Lisa Hickey 32 Comments

Why on earth you would take the gains of one gender and position them as the downfall of the other?

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: economy, Families, gender roles, Hannah Rosin, manufacturing, matriarch, middle class, patriarch, The End or Men, The New York Times

Living in Gratitude

August 29, 2012 By Greg White 1 Comment

Compassion doesn’t have a zip code.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: acting, charity, class, Community, Compassion, depression, donating, economy, giving, gratitude, hollywood, homeless, homeless people, judgement, kindness, mental illness, neighborhood, restaurant reviews, Santa Monica, substance abuse, TripAdvisor, United States, values, Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite, yelp, Zagat

Redefining Work and Ourselves

August 20, 2012 By Professor Pinch Leave a Comment

Is work your whole life?

Filed Under: Featured Content, The Good Life, Work/Life Balance Tagged With: absenteeism, Alexis Madrigal, business, busyness, capitalism, career, career path, class, competitive, connectivity, consumerist, debt, devices, Dilbert, economy, employment history, finding work, four-letter word, free time, getting by, grid, health problems, heart attacks, Hobbies, identity, identity crisis, internet, job hopping, keeping up with the Joneses, labor, life plans, metrics, mortgage crisis, new york times, overwork, paradox, presenteeism, quality, resume, Smiths, Technology, The Good Life, think outside the box, type A, vacation, value of work, values, Work, work history, work week, work/life balance

Eat the Rich

August 15, 2012 By Brandon Ferdig 13 Comments

Both the rich-defenders and the rich-haters are right in their own way, given what they’re focused on.

Filed Under: Business Ethics, Ethics & Values Tagged With: #Occupy, 99%, bourgeoisie, class war, creation of wealth, economics, economy, France, Francois Hollande, Goldman Sachs, government, growth, income tax, Jobs, John Mackey, Lloyd Blankfein, market, mens news, millionaires, new york times, proletariat, Responsibility, rich people, socialism, unemployment, wealth, Whole Foods Market, Work

It’s All Just A Little Bit Of History Repeating …

August 9, 2012 By Seán Flynn 8 Comments

Seán Flynn on the end of American Empire, and how the internet is more like the Catholic Church than you imagined.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Historical Perspectives on Goodness, The Good Life Tagged With: America, architecture, assassin's creed, British Empire, Catholic Church, classicism, colonialism, commerce, conflict, dark ages, economy, Europe, Fall of Rome, finance, free market, global economy, global trade, gothic, Great Britain, Great Depression, Great War, Hedley Bull, Hong Kong, imperialism, industry, information, international relations, internet, London, Louisiana State, market crash, medievalism, mercenaries, Middle Ages, neo-medievalism, New York, Pax Americana, Pax Romana, private military, Roman Empire, romance, Singapore, Technology, The Grapes of Wrath, Travels in Hyperreality, Umberto Eco, United States, Video Games, Wall Street, Walt Disney, Western civilization, world history, World War I

“Having a perfect career looked great on the outside. But was the stress worth the 5 heart attacks?”

July 24, 2012 By the Editors 3 Comments

This is a comment by Tom B on the post “Odd Jobbing”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: bosses, career, career path, careers, company car, corner office, coworkers, economy, executive, expense account, heart attacks, heart bypass, Jobs, management, masters, Stress, Work, working, workplace, workplace stress

Dating While Broke

July 23, 2012 By Albert Okagbue 98 Comments

Dating takes time and money. What’s a hard-working, single man to do?

Filed Under: DadsGood Featured Content, Quarter-Life Crisis, Sex & Relationships, The Good Life Tagged With: Applebee's Fogo de Chao, dating, economy, expenses, gender, gold digger, masculinity, men, money, quarter-life crisis, relationships, romance, The Good Life, unemployment, wage gap, White Knight Syndrome, women

Becoming Who You Want to Be (When You Grow Up)

July 22, 2012 By Lodro Rinzler 2 Comments

Who do you want to be when you grow up?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Quarter-Life Crisis, The Good Life Tagged With: aging, ambition, apathy, Buddhism, career, change, college, core values, economy, fame, Generation Y, Generosity, genuine, grad school, hope, humility, identity, internship, kindness, mandala, middle class, money, President Obama, profession, quarter-life crisis, reality television, Recession, society, success, The Good Life, unemployment, values, Video Games, Work

What’s a Man To Do? New Work for 2012 and Beyond

July 20, 2012 By Jed Diamond Ph.D Leave a Comment

Find the new good life.

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This Town Needs a New Sheriff

July 19, 2012 By Jeff Cohen 10 Comments

Jeff Cohen defies you to find him a comic figure in the movies today who you’d be proud to share with your young son.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men Are Funny Tagged With: 30 Rock, Adam Sandler, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray, Blazing Saddles, Cameron Mitchell, character, classic movies, Cleavon Little, Comedy, diversity, Dudley Moore, economy, Gene Wilder, heroes, humor, Jack and Jill, Jack Donaghy, Judd Apatow, Knocked Up, Mel Brooks, Modern family, Racism, Rape Jokes, Recession, Richard Pryor, Seth Rogen, Spider-man!, statutory rape, That's My Boy, Tina Fey, white people and the n word, Will Ferrell, woody allen, Young Frankenstein

Quarter-Life Crisis: 7/21

July 10, 2012 By Justin Cascio 2 Comments

Coming of age takes longer than ever.

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, Quarter-Life Crisis, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: achievements, adulthood, Call for submissions, character, children, college, coming of age, crisis, debt, economy, education, failure to launch, fatherhood, Generation Y, home ownership, identity, manhood, marriage, masculinity, men, quarter life, quarter-life crisis, student loans, The Good Life, unemployment, Work, young men

The Way of Men: Interview with Jack Donovan

June 28, 2012 By Justin Cascio 23 Comments

“The Way of Men” book author Jack Donovan answers some hard questions about masculinity and society, and the way forward for men.

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Illinois Passes Bill for Comprehensive Sex-Ed in Public Schools

“In fantasy land, we teach our kids abstinence—and they listen.”

David R. Dow: Lessons From Death Row Inmates (TEDTalk VIDEO)

David R. Dow is an attorney in Texas who has defended over 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years.

HuffPost Live: Decapitating Extremism (VIDEO)

Mike Sacks discusses the attack in Woolwich, London, and extremism with a panel of experts on Islam and the Quran.

Our Mission: The Vasectomy Files 8

The Vasectomy Project is encouraging men to join forces and take responsibly for family planning. This is an opportunity to bring people together to talk about our collective responsibility while offering men a concrete way to contribute towards a solution by having a vasectomy.