IN THE April 2, 2018, ISSUE
The Anthropology of Manhood
In our modern age, how does a man demonstrate his worthiness if he has no children to raise and no enemy to fight?
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
Europe’s Left Collapses — Or Does It?
A rejection of social democrats is reconfiguring the continent’s politics.
The Happiest Census
What the Forbes billionaires list tells us about how to get rich in America.
Features
Books, Arts & Manners
A New, Old Geopolitics
Mackubin Thomas Owens reviews ‘The Return of Marco Polo’s World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century,’ by Robert D. Kaplan.
Wisdom Literature
Tracy Lee Simmons reviews Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times, by Leon R. Kass.
The Age of Fighters
Michael Brendan Dougherty reviews The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring, by Paul Beston, and A Ringside Affair: Boxing’s Last Golden Age, by James Lawton.
A Scholar and His Times
Jibran Khan reviews Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography, by Robert Irwin.
Sections
The Incalculable Loss
Nothing says “middle-aged, Sunday, married, no football on” like walking through the big-box hardware store with a toilet seat under each arm…
Remember the Razor
Once upon a time I had friends who shaved. Now I have friends who look like roadies for the Doobie Brothers.