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Editor's note: Father's Day is this weekend and you may have noticed that here on AoM we've been running ...

With the economy in the tank, it's more important than ever to tighten our belts and get our finances under ...

Respect. All men wish to have the respect of those around them. One man who earned respect from his comrades ...

Simplify, simplify." -Henry David Thoreau The simple life is a manly life. Some of history's manliest men ...

Back in May, Art of Manliness' resident adventurer Chris Hutcheson wrote a great piece on writing your bucket ...

Before Google and the internet, people memorized stuff. When your grandpa went to school, memorization was the ...

My grandpa, Bill Hurst, was a journal writer his entire life. His journal was quite simple. He just kept a ...

The following story ran in a newspaper some years ago: The District of Columbia police auctioned off about ...

When it comes to the differences between men and women, some are arguably cultural and some are biological. ...

A few months ago we wrote about the importance of a mentor in a man's life. Figuring out what it means to be a ...

There's a lot of sage wisdom to be found in the film Shawshank Redemption. But there is one detail the movie ...

When I look at photos of men from my grandfather's and even my dad's generation, I can see a sense of purpose ...

"Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire." -George Foreman All sports have the potential ...

Awhile back, we posted about the importance of striving to fulfill your complete potential by becoming a ...

How do you remember what you don't know? How do you appreciate what you have not experienced? A few years ...

If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you'll know that we're big fans of Theodore Roosevelt. No one ...

Porn is everywhere today. It’s impossible to pinpoint when it happened, but some time in the last couple of ...

Run a marathon. Get a degree. Write a book. Build a house. Every man has goals. Sometimes our goals are ...

  Image by lisasawesomepics The poem "George Gray" by Edgar Lee Masters is voiced by dead man who ...

Every generation has its share of men who fully live the art of manliness. But there may never have been a ...