Dirt: Man of the Year

as ContraPoints’ Natalie Wynn once quipped, “being silent is a big part of being silenced,” and at this point, there seems to be more talk of a cultural stigma around male vulnerability than there is stigma. Still, as long as there’s discourse there will be bad actors seeking to hijack it—unless we can offer a better alternative.

Across The Fool , Rossiter isn’t afraid to croon and yowl, to lean into his vibrato until it sounds like he’s on the verge of tears. At points, you can practically hear the flecks of spittle hitting the microphone. Track four, “Rich,” could be construed as tasteless woe-is-me grandstanding, but to me reads as a harrowing account of all the things p

In major publications, personal Substack newsletters, and, of course, on X, everyone has offered their own diagnoses; “young men aren’t reading, so how can they be expected to write?”; “the publishing industry is disproportionately women-dominated”; “Andrew Tate says books are ‘for losers who are afraid to learn from life.’” I find the writer Andre