masculinity

As Cobra Kai’s final season is about to air, we are living in the aftermath of the political backlash to The Karate Kid’s softer kind of power.

After watching Gladiator II, I turned elsewhere for a more joyful model of masculinity.

A conversation with Eddie Glaude about Ella Baker, Black leadership, Malcolm X, and more

A conversation with pastor and activist Bruce Reyes-Chow about Spirit, Desmond Tutu, baptism, and more

The protagonist of Lydia Millet’s new novel is like a mother hen, both to his neighbors and to the birds. 

I stumbled upon a helpful book recently that sheds light on some of the more troubling myths of manliness.

He carries the hesitant masculinity of Twilight’s Edward Cullen in his body.

In her new movie, the filmmaker’s fascination with the myth of masculinity unfolds in 1920s Montana.

A conversation with historian Kristin Du Mez about motherhood and writing, Christian Nationalism, masculinity and patriarchy in evangelicalism, and more

Some readers will find Lyndal Roper’s new book unsettling. That might be a good thing.

How American evangelicalism baptized male aggression

James Crews's poetry is at once ecstatic, skeptical, and hopeful.

Books can’t singlehandedly destroy toxic masculinity. But they can chip away at it.

Films about struggling moms and toxic masculinity should challenge traditional gender roles, not applaud them.

The media have been ablaze with stories of police brutality, campus rape, military conflict, and mass murder. Stan Goff insists on a single thread: masculinity.

Megan McArdle thinks that gun-control measures wouldn't accomplish much but that training kids to run at a shooter instead of away might. That's a weird payoff at the end of a 4,500-word post, but it's not as offensive as Charlotte Allen's argument.

Men and the church are often at odds. Sadly, many of the reasons researchers give for this are as insulting as they are misguided.