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How Donald Trump’s Truculent Retro Masculinity Duped Working Class Men

How Donald Trump’s Truculent Retro Masculinity Duped Working Class Men

Joan C. Williams on the Economic and Emotional Factors Behind the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in America

By Joan C. Williams | June 13, 2025

Men Have Bigger Problems Than Not Reading Novels

Men Have Bigger Problems Than Not Reading Novels

For James Folta, What’s Wrong With Men is What’s Wrong With America

By James Folta | January 24, 2025

Lost and Found: KB Brookins on Masculinity, Gender and Trauma

Lost and Found: KB Brookins on Masculinity, Gender and Trauma

"I was a girl in the imagination of others and nowhere else."

By KB Brookins | May 29, 2024

Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

Simon Price on the Making and Legacy of One of the Band’s Most Beloved Songs

By Simon Price | December 12, 2023

The Age of Innocence Remains Scorsese’s Most Subtle Deconstruction of Misogyny"> 30 Years Later, <em

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The Storied Director Found His Match in Edith Wharton

By Andrew Quintana | September 8, 2023

How Work Culture Intersects with the Crisis of Masculinity

How Work Culture Intersects with the Crisis of Masculinity

Keen On">In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 27, 2023

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Douglas Stuart on Masculinity and the Long Literary Tradition of the Gang Novel

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Best American Male: An Essay About Masculinity. An Essay About Power.

Best American Male: An Essay About Masculinity. An Essay About Power.

Rebecca Hazelton on Contemporary Templates For Public Confession

By Rebecca Hazelton | March 10, 2022

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Michelle Nijhuis on Masculinity and Queerness in the Novel and Jane Campion’s Adaptation

By Michelle Nijhuis | December 3, 2021

On the Unattainable Myth of Feminine Beauty Ideals and Our Culture of Fat Phobia

On the Unattainable Myth of Feminine Beauty Ideals and Our Culture of Fat Phobia

Sesali Bowen Considers What It Means to Be a "Bad Bitch" and the Politicization of Attractiveness

By Sesali Bowen | October 18, 2021

Searching for the Elusive Sound of Silence in the Olympic Peninsula’s Hoh Rain Forest

Searching for the Elusive Sound of Silence in the Olympic Peninsula’s Hoh Rain Forest

Phillip Hurst on the Quest for Inner Peace in the Wake of His Father’s Conservative Ideology

By Phillip Hurst | October 14, 2021

If I Had Loved Her Less: On a Queer Reading of Henry David Thoreau and the Daily Performance of Manhood

If I Had Loved Her Less: On a Queer Reading of Henry David Thoreau and the Daily Performance of Manhood

Jennifer Finney Boylan Considers What Risks We Take to Live Our Full Truth

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | September 13, 2021

Vocal Effects: How Hormones Change the Way We Sound

Vocal Effects: How Hormones Change the Way We Sound

Carole Hooven on the Role of Testosterone in Human Speech

By Carole Hooven | July 19, 2021

Drunkards, Nazis, and Fascist Masculinity: The Ambivalent Resistance Lit of Hans Fallada

Drunkards, Nazis, and Fascist Masculinity: The Ambivalent Resistance Lit of Hans Fallada

The Drinker">Clayton Wickham Rereads The Drinker

By Clayton Wickham | May 3, 2021

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