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In Defense of Robert E. Lee, Sort of
Embed from Getty Images — In a previous article, I wrote about why I choose not to participate in protests: I want no part in the triumph of emotion over reason; I refuse to relinquish a feeling of...
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Save the Pick-Up Lines for the Bar, not the Workplace
Embed from Getty Images __ One night after work, my fiancé came home from work feeling cross. Her irritation stemmed from an encounter while standing in line at the cafeteria during lunch. She had...
View ArticleThe Puzzling Irony of Censoring The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Embed from Getty Images — RSVP for #StopRacism Weekly Calls Last week, I wrote an article about how The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn promotes the cause of Black Lives Matter. In the article, I...
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The Problem with Having Changing Tables in Men’s Restrooms
Embed from Getty Images __ As a new father, I change a lot of diapers. Mothers are not the only ones who should be stuck changing diapers, and not simply because men and women should, as a matter of...
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The Specter of Marxism Haunts the Social Justice Movement
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Time is the Nemesis of Happiness
Embed from Getty Images Time is the nemesis of happiness. Time steals away happiness. Then gives it back. And then steals it away again. One cannot seem to hold onto happiness with any hope it will...
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Count Me Among the Skeptics of Hype on Social Media
Embed from Getty Images Social media dominates life in the twenty-first century. Rich or poor, city-slicker or hillbilly, Left Coast dweller or red-state denizen of the heartland, each of us (or at...
View ArticleAnd Then Charlottesville Happened
Embed from Getty Images — For many people living in the twenty-first century in the most advanced nation the world has ever seen, the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, VA on August 11-12,...
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Can Men Say ‘Me Too’ as Well?
Embed from Getty Images It seems a reasonable presumption that most, if not all, women have been victims of sexual harassment or assault at some point in their lives. Admittedly, I do not have the...
View ArticleMen Should Be Asking Themselves Not What They Have Done Right
Embed from Getty Images Things won’t change until each of us recognizes and understands the nature and extent of his own complicity in a culture of sexual misconduct. But such introspection is more...
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Does the Specter of Antonio Gramsci’s Neo-Marxism Haunt the Democratic Party...
Embed from Getty Images One week after the horrendous mass shooting at a Florida high school in which 17 people were killed, the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA), Wayne...
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The Idea That You’ve Met ‘The One’ is a Myth
Embed from Getty Images — In an arresting scene in the movie No Country for Old Men, the sociopathic killer Anton Chigurh asks a gas station attendant: what’s the most you’ve ever lost in a coin toss?...
View ArticleWhy I am a Man Who Chooses Not to Cry
Embed from Getty Images RSVP for CTE Football Calls ‘Toxic masculinity’ has emerged as a prominent theme in the culture wars of the twenty-first century. In social media memes, in therapy sessions, in...
View ArticleCorporate America Needs to Step up and Support Paid Family Leave
Embed from Getty Images When I first heard my daughter Lincoln cry as she came out of the womb at 6am on a Tuesday morning last September, I was numb, sleep-deprived, and in disbelief. The baby had...
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How One Man Discovered He Might Be More Sexist Than He Thought
Embed from Getty Images Does referring to his future wife as a “girl” when he’d never call his boss anything but a “woman” reveal a secret bias? — I recently published an article on The Good Men...
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Is Confirmation Bias the Dark Side of Social Justice Activism?
Ever since the New York Times published a devastating account of decades of predatory behavior by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, the worlds of Hollywood, politics, business, and unions have been...
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The Best Response to This Weekend’s ‘Unite the Right’ Rally in Washington, D.C.
Embed from Getty Images On Sunday, August 11, 2018, white nationalists will gather in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. to mark the one-year anniversary of “Unite the Right” rally in...
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That Giant Sucking Sound You Hear Is Men Being Drained from the Labor Force
Embed from Getty Images Work is an essential foundation of any stable social order. Despite all the Office Space parodies of life in a cubicle, and however much we bemoan having to get up on Monday...
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I am a Father Who Supports Paid Family Leave
Embed from Getty Images — There are many parental responsibilities I have assumed as a new father. I’ve learned: how to change diapers how to clean breast-feeding equipment for mom how to fit my...
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Stoic, Toxic, or More Confusion?
In response to guidelines recently-released by the American Psychological Association (APA) questioning whether norms associated with “traditional masculinity” (e.g. stoicism) are harmful to the mental...
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