Protect Your Home

Protect Your Home

Someone was in my garage at four in the morning. They also tried the bathroom window a few feet from where my wife and I were sleeping. My security system was not armed. I had left doors unlocked. In a gated community in a decent part of Las Vegas, someone got close...
Nobody Gets Sober Alone

Nobody Gets Sober Alone

Nobody gets sober by himself. I don’t care how strong you are, how determined you feel on day one, or how many times you’ve white-knuckled it solo before. Recovery is a contact sport, and the men who make it are the ones who let someone else into the fight...
Reverence Makes Men Whole

Reverence Makes Men Whole

Immanuel Kant, one of the most rigorous minds in the history of philosophy, boiled the entire human project down to four questions: What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope for? And what is man? Those questions have been rattling around in serious heads...
What Great Dads Do

What Great Dads Do

There is a man in your life who is getting it done as a dad every single day, and nobody is making a big deal about it. He is not going viral. He is not on a magazine cover. He is just in it, grinding through the ordinary heroics of fatherhood without applause or...
Men and Mental Illness

Men and Mental Illness

One in five people has a diagnosable mental health disorder. Read that again slowly. That means in any room you walk into, twenty percent of the people present are dealing with something clinical, something that has a name, something that responds to treatment but...