The Long Arm of the Social Law

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Steven Axelrod reflects on human connection, as it exists from Nantucket to Los Angeles.

Real Men Do Cry

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Tears are a sign of strength, Sherri Rosen writes, not weakness.

A Married Man’s View of Divorce

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Many men are conditioned to never give up, Uncle Woolfie writes, but when it comes to raising a family, that’s not always the best thing.

Occupy Their Minds

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“Feel free to raise your voice, and keep a riot in your heart.”

Should Pepper Spray Be ‘Time’s’ Person of the Year?

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It’s defining our moral outrage, Slade Sohmer writes, so why not?

The Right Thing

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“If men like Paterno are our gods, if football is our religion,” Megan Rosker writes, “then we have just sacrificed our children on the alter of the nine-yard line.”

Paterno and Pedestals

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Do pedestals allow us to see with great vision, Julie Gillis asks, or do they just help us fall from grace?

I’ll Tell You Why I Won’t Tell You My Number if You Tell Me Why You Won’t Tell Me Yours

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Nicole Rodgers and Hugo Schwyzer discuss society’s obsession with the number of people we’ve slept with.

Porn Zombies

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Is porn culture crippling society by confusing our notions of sexuality?

Re-Imagining Heaven

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Jack Varnell uses free verse to look at religion and the society that needs a God.

Get Out There and Make Some Babies

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Jake DiMare argues that for true gender equality, we need more progressive, liberal folks to create more children and raise them up with love, civility and the ability to think critically about their surroundings.

How Travel Made Me Confront White Privilege

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When we travel, Richard Stupart writes, we force ourselves to go outside of the rules of our home society.

We Are Excited About ‘The Classical’

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A new website, The Classical, promises to consider sports in an exciting and worthwhile way, and they could use some money.

‘The True Believer’: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

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Jesse Kornbluth reviews Eric Hoffer’s ‘The True Believer’ and discusses the nature of all fanatical mass movements.

A Day at the Park

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Do we really live in a society that is still stuck in the lie that Black men cannot be fathers?

Men Are Depressing

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According to a report in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the rate of depressive disorders among men will increase over the next century. Male obsolescence—where have I heard that before?