Apr 8, 2021 | Friendship, Life and Culture
Friendship, and our need for it, is as ancient as humanity itself. The ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, written sometime between 2100 and 1200 BC, poignantly illustrates how love in friendship even transcends death. Though the gods condemn Enkidu to death in...
Apr 1, 2021 | Love and Romance, Masculinity
Aaron Renn is an urban analyst who has written for a number of publications, including the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. But he is also passionate about helping men become their best at time when the world is “ambivalent, at best” about...
Mar 25, 2021 | Life and Culture, Love and Romance
This past weekend, Melanie Notkin of the New York Post chronicled the dating “hellscape” that New York City has become since the start of the pandemic last year. Masks, social distancing, curfews, and other restrictions have made it nearly impossible to...
Mar 18, 2021 | Life and Culture
Americans are known for having longer work hours than their Western European contemporaries. Numerous explanations have been offered and debated – from Europe’s “culture of leisure” and differing tax rates between the U.S. and Europe...
Mar 11, 2021 | Life and Culture, Love and Romance
The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, in his remarks from the International Colloquium on “The Complementarity of Man and Woman” in 2014, beautifully stated the impact monogamy has had on the historical evolution of human rights: What makes the emergence of monogamy...
