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Independence Day is this Saturday here in the United States. In honor of it, we present "A Nation's ...

Since I've graduated law school, I've been taking a look at the debt Kate and I have accumulated during our ...

When you think fondly about your boyhood days, you probably think about the time you spent playing. While we ...

I read an interesting article in Sunday’s New York Times where the editors asked 8 artists to draw a ...

They are the battle cries of moms and elementary school teachers all over the world: "Sit up straight!" and ...

It’s something all of us have imagined at one time or another. What would it be like to die and attend our ...

When we think about moments that epitomize manliness, we often think of the captain going down with the ...

Editor's note: You've probably noticed that Wayne Levine has become a regular contributor to AoM; he writes ...

Ever since many of us were little kids, we were told to never talk to strangers. While this was done out of a ...

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 ...