New in Politico: The Crisis Over American Manhood Is Code for Something Else
Male malaise in the United States goes back to the founders, and it is a preoccupation of elites in particular. They might teach us something about this current wave of manliness panic.
In April I attended, online and for Politico, the Stronger Men Conference, an annual Jesusy sober rave dedicated to masculinity in Springfield, Missouri. Sen. Josh Hawley spoke. So did many Christian influencers. In Hawley’s supremely weird sermon I sought answers to the age-old question: “What do men want?” Men. White m…
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