The Conformist
Essay by J.W. Horan | The new conformity is not fascist. Perhaps things would be better if it were. Anything is better than conforming to the pious neuroses of weak, defective men like Bernardo Bertolucci
read moreEssay by J.W. Horan | The new conformity is not fascist. Perhaps things would be better if it were. Anything is better than conforming to the pious neuroses of weak, defective men like Bernardo Bertolucci
read moreFiction by Elmore Collins | Idiot-speak, I think, looking around the room at the sea of fools who are lapping it up. Not one word of substance, only platitudes, meaningless drivel
read moreEssay by T.J. Harker | The West has become so inured to the idea that girls and women can and should do anything, that we simply take for granted that doing so will redound to their advantage. It hasn’t and it won’t
read moreFilm Review by Ingmar Bugman | Heat remains totally relevant. Our culture fetishizes professionalism more than ever. Now, thanks to our smartphones, even our private lives are professionalized
read moreEssay by Ethan McGuire | Only a few years after his death, Yue Fei’s legend elevated him to the status of a hero in myth
read moreClassic Essay by Friedrich Nietzsche | Oh, the fatal curiosity of the philosopher, who longs, just once, to peer out and down through a crack in the chamber of consciousness
read moreFiction by Arbogast | The special agent for the Society of Gentlemen Geographers was ready for the case to end. He had been tracking the theft of the crimson scarab ever since it had been purloined at a party put on by the Society in Cairo
read moreFilm Review by Dane MH | The vast majority of “heroes” in modern media are subversive takes on the traditional hero archetype. The irreverent and quippy Marvel hero, the reluctant and brooding scoundrel—there are few protagonists who don’t have a slew of unheroic traits
read moreBook Extract by Chris Waldburger | The snake is primordial fear. This creature of cylindrical muscle, with no arms and legs, is an emblem of our first reckoning with the terrors that live in nature
read moreInterview by Noor Bin Ladin | MAN’S WORLD correspondent Noor Bin Ladin interviews Douglass Mackey, a.k.a. Ricky Vaughn
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