I don’t know if my ex, David*, put on a front to come across as more left wing than he was when we first met, or whether he ...

“Adolescence,” Netflix’s hit mini-series about a young man who commits a horrific act of violence after engaging with incel ideology online, brightened the media spotlight on the “manosphere.” The ...

How did so many young men end up learning “manhood” from men who profit by inflaming appetite, resentment, and contempt?

There's a lot of debate around the extent to which the manosphere is playing out in young people's lives and relationships. Some suggest claims about its malevolence are misplaced. Others think just ...

Netflix has teamed up with acclaimed documentarian Louis Theroux for a hard-hitting documentary about the toxicity of the “Manosphere.” Theroux is no stranger to controversial subject matter, as he ...

These guys, my son explains, can do what they do because their followers understand them as alphas, but they generally aren’t alpha enough to not worry about whether they look sufficiently alpha.

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I never thought I’d see discussions of looksmaxxing on LinkedIn of all places. But nowadays, I increasingly am. For the uninitiated, “looksmaxxing” is an internet term that originated on incel message ...

Spend 90 minutes watching Louis Theroux’s latest documentary, Inside the Manosphere, on Netflix, and you’re bound to leave with some questions—and probably a deep feeling of dread. Even before you ...

There’s a lot of debate around the extent to which the manosphere is playing out in young people’s lives and relationships. Some suggest claims about its malevolence are misplaced. Others think just ...