Dear Sarah, Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. There was the busy schedule of high school, college and professional football and then basketball games: all those teams praying that I choose them to win takes an enormous amount of research time and personal energy. (A few months ago, a Viking’s…
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A terrific new documentary by Marc de Guerre starts with the dramatic drop of full-time employment for men in the United States. Between December 2007 and March of 2010 the United States lost 8.2 million jobs. 80% of these jobs belonged to men. In 2008, the share of men in the United States with a…
There are a lot of strange things we now take for granted. On Tuesday night, I watched President Obama’s State of the Union address. From time-to-time he would illustrate a point by telling a short, heart-warming story about someone or other. Each time he did, the camera would dutifully shift to an person in the…
On campuses throughout North America, there are groups of male students who are speaking out against dating violence and in support of gender equality. It’s not always an easy job. For one thing, they up against a ton of fear. Of what? Fear among most guys of not being one of the guys. They also face a…