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Host: Brett McKayProducer: Kate McKay September 29, 2026In: Culture, Entertainment, PodcastModern life is filled with conveniences designed to make things easier. We can order dinner without leaving the couch, check ourselves out at…
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If you’ve got a philosophical bent and you like to lift weights, you’ve probably heard of Yukio Mishima.Mishima was one of history’s most interesting cats. He was a Japanese novelist and playwright, a martial artist and bodybuilder…and…
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Salesman. My latest Criterion watch was this 1969 documentary, which follows four door-to-door salesmen from the Mid-American Bible Company as they work Catholic parishes around Boston and then down in Florida, trying to move a $49.95…
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Host: Brett McKayProducer: Kate McKay September 22, 2026We all have things we’ve always wanted to know how to do, but have never gotten around to learning. Speak a foreign language. Play an instrument. Write a book. Take up surfing.…
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The raglan tee (or as most guys know it, the baseball tee) is a shirt with sleeves that contrast in color from the body. Those sleeves are its defining feature: instead of attaching at a vertical seam on top of the shoulder, they’re cut…
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In one of the emails Oliver Burkeman, author of Time Management for Mortals, sent out to his subscribers, he talked about how we typically treat our to-do lists like buckets that we need to empty every day. The problem, Burkeman…
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The virtual Criterion Closet. If you’ve been following along with me for a while, you know I’ve been on a quest to become a cinephile, which I’ve been pursuing by watching films from the Criterion Collection during my zone 2 cardio…
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By: Brett & Kate McKay September 17, 2026When it comes to camping, there are rules you should follow to respect nature: don’t use even biodegradable soap in streams to avoid disrupting the ecosystem; pitch your tent on…
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Hard as it may be to believe, we’re less than four months away from the end of 2026. If this year has gone by like many of the rest — starting with high hopes, only to fall into ruts of malaise and disappointment — then make the decision…
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Host: Brett McKayProducer: Kate McKay September 15, 2026When people are faced with problems and complexity, our instinct is to add instead of subtract. As a result, we have a tendency to make our work and our lives more and more…
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After weeks of friendly chats with the woman you keep running into at the coffee shop, you worked up the nerve to ask her out. She smiled, winced a little, and said, “That’s really sweet, but I don’t think so.”Your face went hot. Your…
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YouTube Update Video. While I used to regularly make videos for YouTube, I stopped ten years ago because I don’t like making videos. But I thought I’d check in on that platform to announce the new website redesign and catch subscribers…
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Launching the redesign of the Art of Manliness has gotten me thinking about our history, and how my understanding of manliness has evolved, deepened, and changed over that nearly two-decade-long span.The idea for the Art of Manliness…
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Every five years or so, Kate and I get the itch to redesign the Art of Manliness. I don’t fully know where it comes from. After eighteen years of running this site, our tastes change, our sense of what AoM is about changes, and at…
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