Right now, too many young men are being fed the junk food variety of masculinity. The magic bullet, use steroids, dominate others, get rich quick on Crypto version. We’re not doing a good enough job of championing a more sustainable and healthier version, one that ultimately leads to more success than the ​bastardized concept​ of an alpha-male.

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