The seemingly endless cycle of school shootings by young men continues in the USA, and as always more students lay dead. The usual scapegoats are wheeled out for blame: its the fault of Democrat policies, Republican policies, fatherlessness, gun availability, misogyny, inadequate school security and check-in cards, or perhaps people choose to blame police lethargy …
My regular light rail travels regularly take me past a mural that depicts a plumber standing tall above a crowd of people with planet earth in the background. The picture is captioned “The plumber protects the health of the nation.” Now I have heard any number of stories about what is or is not in …
Feminists are experts at revising history. Well, as far as expertise goes when it goes unchallenged. That does not sit well with Greg Canning, a man Down Under whose sense of history is deep and highly personal, as well as accurate.
In 2019, I drove from Minneapolis to Chicago to meet with the leadership of the International Conference on Men’s Issues. Black comedian Tommy Sotomayor had been booked as a keynote speaker. The conference was the largest ever gathering of its kind (500 people) so it was difficult to get one on one time with leadership. I …
When ‘soccer moms’ enroll boys in aggressive team sports to provide an outlet for male testosterone, are they helping boys to release aggression or rather creating an aggressive attitude that will need to draw upon the hormone to fuel it? Renown biologist Robert Sapolsky has some uncomfortable answers.
I remember reading when I was younger a biography of the artist Jean Cocteau, how on his first plane trip he remarked how wonderful man was, enraptured by the technological marvel that was carrying him across the sky. Of course, by “man” he likely meant “humanity.” Years later I note how I have spent much …
Ukrainian father says goodbye to his daughter, possibly forever, as he and all males aged 18 to 60 are banned from leaving, and are forced to stay behind and fight against Russia.
I sent the following open letter to Washington Post Columnist Janay Kingsberry to allow for her to respond before I submitted this to A Voice for Men. Unsurprisingly, she didn’t reply. ___________________________ Dear Ms. Kingsberry, I respectfully ask that you take the time to read this letter in its entirety and to thoughtfully consider what …
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The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was immortalized in a song, reminiscent of an old sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot. He based his song on “The Cruelest Month,” an article in Newsweek magazine that appeared soon after the November 10, 1975 disaster, and recorded the song in December. A …
