
The American Man
Make Your Own Music
Issue No. 9 | April 22, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: “The Acts of the Apostles recounts a particularly tumultuous mission trip Paul and Silas took to the Roman colony Phillipi. Arrested for disturbing the peace, they were severely beaten, shackled, and
Thank God for Beer
Issue No. 8 | April 8, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: “We should thank God for beer,” said G.K. Chesterton, a bon vivant always ready to practice what he preached over a pint or two. For Chesterton, there was something profoundly
Get Your Hands Dirty
Issue No. 6 | March 25, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: For a materialist society, we’re strangely alienated from the material. Our educational system neglects useful skills in favor of meaningless credentials. The more detached one’s day-to-day work is from actual
The Struggle is Real
Issue No. 5 | March 18, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: Know thyself, goes the ancient maxim. But how? It’s a mistake to assume this is just a job for the mind. We’re our bodies, too. (Move along, Gnostics). Look at
Miracle on Astor Place
Issue No. 4 | March 11, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: Last month, New York City’s iconic Astor Place Hairstylists signed a new, 10-year-lease, cementing a comeback that began in the depths of the pandemic. Days away from closing for good, the 75-year-old
Survival for Realists
Issue No. 3 | March 4, 2022 Friends, Americans, Countrymen: Optimism can destroy you. That’s one of the lessons we can take from Admiral James Stockdale’s eight years in a Vietnamese POW camp. In an interview with writer Jim Collins, Stockdale noted