Men have created the vast majority of human culture. For thousands of years, men painted the paintings and sculpted the sculptures. Until recently, men wrote most of the songs and poems and plays and all kinds of books. Men designed […]
Editor Cameron Dixon recently wrote an articulate and well-thought-out essay for CHEST in which he examined the distinction I made in The Way of Men between “being a good man” and “being good at being a man.” Dixon concluded that […]
In his cult-classic book The Way of Men, CHEST Co-founder Jack Donovan made an essential distinction in the philosophy of masculinity when he laid out the difference between being a good man, and being good at being a man: “There […]
Rites of passage have been an integral part of many (if not most) cultures for thousands and thousands of years. With manhood being something that is both recognized and bestowed by other men in the tribe, it makes sense that […]
“Spirit” is not a word commonly paired with science. Science is presented as a near-opposite to all things “spiritual”—rational, analytical, empirical, and skeptical. To consult science is to set aside myth, to banish superstition and prejudice in favor of clear […]
Those who have been following Chest magazine since its inception are probably familiar with the famous quote from C.S. Lewis that served as its inspiration and namesake: “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We […]
Men do experience anger at times and for a variety of reasons. I doubt that men today are necessarily angrier than our male ancestors, but male anger is certainly less acceptable today, thanks to changes in societal attitudes. In this […]
Masculine Men Share Hierarchical Values When I wrote The Way of Men ten years ago, I searched for unifying concepts of masculinity. The paradox inherent in this pursuit is that it is in the nature of men to break into competing groups […]
Fatherhood gets a bad rap. Involved, intelligent dads are largely left out of media depictions of families. Fathers have a notoriously difficult time when it comes to access to kids in the event of a divorce. Women are told over […]
In the beginning, there was nothing Maybe the nothing you believe in was truly nothing. Maybe it was unorganized matter, maybe it was all potential and no realization. But whatever it was, there was nothing — chaos. And then God […]
