Manliness Book

Manliness suffers in the eyes of today's reviewers (see the litany of reviews castigating its "binariness") for the sin of having been written when the aperture of Overton's Window was in a different posture, which is remarkable considering it is barely a decade old. His is the Straussian (perhaps Bloomian) approach of marshaling literature and philosophy in service of an argument, namely that manliness properly understood is both "non-toxic" and essential. The book helps us appreciate manliness as it has been understood throughout history and across the Western Canon, rather than in its contemporary caricature. It's a serious, scholarly book that deserves to be engaged and appreciated accordingly.