As another year draws to a close, we’ll be taking the next week off from publishing new content to enjoy the holidays and catch up on all the behind-the-scenes tasks that go into running a website and podcast. While we’re away, check out some of our best and most popular content of the year.
Articles
Most Popular Articles of the Year Based on Traffic
- The Groundhog Day Diet: Why I Eat the Same Thing Every Day
- Your No-Nonsense Guide to Choosing the Right Beard Style
- The Steve McQueen Workout
- How Long Does It Take to Put on Muscle?
- The 10 Best War Movies of All-time
- Why Every Man Should Have 3 Signature Dishes
- The Least Interesting Generation
- How to Pack a Backpack for Backpacking
- Are You Suffering From Soft Suburban Dad Syndrome? 50 Questions for Self-Examination
- Everything You Didn’t Know About the Trusty Tape Measure
- The 6 Fire Lays Every Man Should Know
- 3 Things No One Ever Told You About Making Friends in Adulthood
- How to Grow Your Hair Out Long (For Dudes)
Our Personal Picks
(Some of the most popular above would be included in this list as well):
- How to Create a Soundtrack for Your Life
- Your Three Selves and How Not to Fall Into Despair
- 4 Key Insights From the Bhagavad Gita
- Are You Disciplined or Just Self-Disciplined?
- Curbside Pickup and the End of Peak Consumerism
- 3 Essential Books for Understanding Our Disorienting Modern World
- What Gandhi and a 19th-Century Prussian Prince Can Teach You About Making Unbreakable Resolutions
- The 10 Best Biographies of American Presidents
- How Saunas Can Help Save Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
- Looking for a Daddy, in All the Wrong Places
- Nietzsche’s (Surprisingly Sound) Advice on Choosing a Spouse
- Are You Prepared for the Coming Existential Crisis?
Sunday Firesides Favorites
- Don’t Adopt Ideas Based on Trends
- Die Red
- There Are No Second Chances
- The Cult of Personality in a Small-Minded Society
- What’s Happening Is . . .
- Be Not a Consumer of Life
- Permission to Be Wholesome, Granted
- Despise Not the Thing That Would Save You
- Want to Solve Your Social Problems? Get Over Your Self
- The Cost of a Thing
- Disappointment, The Emotion of Children
- A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
Podcast
Most Popular Podcasts of the Year Based on Listens
- Physical Benchmarks Every Man Should Meet, At Every Age
- How to Decide
- Email Is Making Us Miserable — Here’s What to Do About It
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Simplifying Every Aspect of Your Life
- Overcoming the Comfort Crisis
- How to Make Your Life More Effortless
- The Psychology of Effective Weight Loss
- What a Man With 60,000 Books Can Teach You About Lifelong Learning and Building Your Home Library
- The Character Traits That Drive Optimal Performance
- A Surprising Theory on Why We Get Fat
- The Rise of the Religious “Nones” (And What It Means for Society)
- How Testosterone Makes Men, Men
Our Personal Picks
(Some of the most popular above would be included in this list as well):
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road, and Carrying the Fire
- Why We Get Sick
- Rewild Your Life
- The Hell-Raising Leader of WWII’s Filthy Thirteen
- Men Without Chests
- The (Non-Cliche) Life Lessons of Fly Fishing
- The Best Tools for Personal Change
- How to Keep Your Edge as You Get Older
- Theodore Roosevelt, The Last Romantic
- Stop Living on Autopilot and Take Responsibility for Your Life
- The Complex Coolness of Steve McQueen
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