Into the manosphere

Louis Theroux’s new Netflix documentary explores the world of ‘manosphere’ influencers and podcasters and their appeal to young men in a world which not only doesn’t seem to need them, but actively despises them.

150 years of moral panic

The current cultural panic about masculinity is just the latest incarnation of a long-standing debate about the role of men in society.

Millennial bugs?

Blaming millennials for spreading COVID-19 fails to see the bigger picture.

Talking ’bout your generations

Will the effects of COVID-19 drive different generations apart or help bring us together in a common cause?

Booze and boys are still a risky combination

“They are not a nation of snobs like the English or of extravagant boasters like the Americans or of reckless profligates like the French, they are simply a nation of drunkards.” – Marcus Clarke, 1869