Issue No. 15 | June 3, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: In the 1999 movie “Fight Club,” Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) gives a rousing speech on the predicament of the American man:    “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.

Issue No. 14 | May 27, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: Feeling sick but Covid negative (as we currently are)? Good luck getting any sympathy. You’re just another one of the uncredentialed ill. It’s worse if you’re a man, as we have a reputation

Issue No. 13 | May 20, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: These days “dressing for success” rarely entails dressing up. Anyone with ambition will notice that the real movers and shakers in our society get to wear whatever they want. Tech moguls in

Issue No. 12 | May 13, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: Long ago we were invited to dine at our professor’s house along with some other students. During coffee, the phone on his wall began to ring (this was in the

Issue No. 11 | May 6, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: This Sunday is Mother’s Day. We know it’s easy to be cynical about the moneymaking opportunity this holiday represents (“it was invented by greeting card companies, maaan!”), as we too

Issue No. 10 | April 29, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: “A movie actress recently proclaimed that she and her musician fiancé regularly drink each other’s blood. You probably reacted to this “news” much as we did, with a mix of