The Boy Crisis

And while today’s fathers are more engaged with their children than fathers in any previous generation, they’re charting a blind course, navigating by trial and, just as critically, error. Many

When you know your direction and are living it fully, your core is alive and strong. Your children will naturally feel this. They will respond to your clarity and presence differently than they will respond to your ambiguity—an ambiguity that results from having detoured from your deepest purpose because you think it’s “right” or “fair” that you sp

To be a father in more than a biological sense—to make fatherhood an integral part of my identity, to care about my child in an active and passionate sense—requires that I sustain an existential, life-defining commitment to my child. This is why parenthood can be such a transformative event, reorienting my deepest relation to the world, making life

Men don’t have a unifying force of women-as-jerks or oppressors. Men’s purpose in being trained to kill was, ironically, at least in part to protect the sex that now considers them the “oppressor.” To die for a woman’s love is one thing. To die for women who think of him as a jerk, enemy, or “oppressor” feels more like saving the enemy. The challen