Lonely for the Wrong Reason
The manosphere is closer to right about the feeling than its critics admit, and much further from right about the cause than its followers ever check.
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The Alpha Male Myth
The ‘alpha male’ is borrowed from a debunked wolf study its own author disowned — and it gets the cause of attraction backwards. Here’s why having genuine passions, not performing dominance, is what actually works.
The Problems That Lose By Default
Water infrastructure has no news cycle. That is the whole problem.
What Feminism Actually Asks of Me
The thing nobody tells you about becoming a feminist as a man is that the day-to-day reality…
Who I Am, Part Two: Why I’m a Feminist, and Why You Probably Should Be Too
There’s a particular kind of man who will tell you, with some pride, that he is not…
Who I Am, Part One: Straight, White, Male
I’ve been thinking lately about how many people seem to hold their beliefs the way you’d hold…
Democracy on the Brink: Why Politics, Not Religion, Is Now the Biggest Threat to Our World
When I wrote about this topic years ago, I argued that religion was a virus of the mind, but that politics was the bigger problem — that divisions driven by tribal political loyalty were doing more damage to the world than any church. I still believe the first half. I was wildly, embarrassingly optimistic about the second.