Month: February 2016

• February 5, 2016

  When I Push You, Push Back At Me

  When I push another man during a philosophical conversation, I want him to push back at me. In the rest of his life, he has gotten used (a) to being overly sensitive, (b) to giving in at the mere mention of conflict, (c) to apologizing. If he is prone to upset, then he has gotten…
• February 1, 2016

  Masculinity and the Case of Justified Anger

  I speak with a lot of men about the loss of their masculinity in a feminized culture. I speak with them about wildness without recklessness, powerfulness without aggression, considerate manliness without brutishness, and, most notably, about toughness. One of my male friends correctly believes that William James’s “The Moral Equivalent of War” spells out well our…