Category: Manhood

Manhood Matters: Reviving the Manly Virtues

During the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked the nominee whether she could define the word “woman.” Jackson replied in the negative, adding, “I am not a biologist.” Given the postmodernist debates and confusion over gender and sex in our culture, we can safely guess Blackburn’s question…


Rediscovering a Lost Tradition: Male Rites of Passage

During his high school years, my youngest son played point guard on a homeschool basketball team in Asheville, North Carolina. His coach, Tom, was a physician and a father of four boys, two of whom were also on my son’s team. He was a great coach who took no guff from the boys, ran disciplined…