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2023 was a painful year, and the sentiment is that it"s only beginning.  The question remains, what is the IT that is only beginning? What is the cause or explanation of the upheaval? Books have been written on the subject, and they pile up on bookshelves and in influencer"s reading lists, but do they end up helping or

The landscape of discussion on masculinity hosts many tribes. Some demand specialization, others, annihilation. All of which appear unhappy about the state of masculinity in the West. Questions about masculinity are ultimately inquiries about not only his identity, but about society, government, and how we should live.

The Ends Justify The Means You have to break a few eggs to make an Omelette And similar phrases are not only used to moraly justify atrocities, but are wielded rhetorically as a call to action instead of a moral argument.  Whether a case of desperation, or of utilitarian ends, we take a look a this form of moral argume

The subject of Civil War is once again in the mainstream, this time brought forward by a trailer by the very namesake. Dark Humor gets many of us through our tough times, but if this means anything, it"s that we"re not there yet.  As a result, we are once again engaging with Just War Theory, having to do with some prob

By my estimation, since the Second World War, the West has taken for granted why men will voluntarily go off to war. It generally minimizes it into some semblance of the male fantasy or selfish ambition or patriotism. However, how we, ourselves make these decisions, or think about Just War Theory as individuals, has co

If entrance into the military counts as initiation into Gun Culture (it doesn"t, but work with me here), then I have spent 15 years in various parts of this community. What are the lessons to be learned from it? First, we all enter naive, whether into a job or a discipline or a skill tree. As we learn where we need to