#111: Why Men Fight & Why We Like To Watch With Jonathan Gottschall
Jonathan Gottschall was an associate professor of English whose career had stalled in mid-life. Then one day he looked out his office and saw an MMA gym and he decided he was going to train to become ...
24 Apr 201534min
#110: Hardboiled Detectives, Boxing, and Creativity With David Levien
David Levien is a screenwriter, movie producer, novelist, and amateur boxer. He's worked with his writing partner Brian Koppelman on Rounders, Ocean's 13, and The Illusionist. On his own, he's publish...
16 Apr 201536min
#109 Underground Strength With Zach Even-Esh
For the past year or so I've had AoM readers emailing and tweeting me about a book called Underground Strength. Finally had a chance to check it out and I had to have the author on. Zach Even-Esh is a...
10 Apr 201537min
#108: The Upside of Your Dark Side With Dr. Todd Kashdan
You can't go anywhere these days without running into an article or a book on how to be more positive and upbeat. Pessimism and anger are seen as traits we should do all we can to avoid. But my guest ...
3 Apr 201551min
#107: The Champion's Blueprint With Dr. Jeff Spencer
Is success a skill that can be learned? Why are some people afraid of success? And what blind spots cause the successful to crash and burn? Well, my guest today has some ideas about these questions. H...
27 Mars 201528min
#106: Photographing War & Conflict With Robert Nickelsberg
Robert Nickelsberg was a contract photographer for TIME magazine for 25 years. During that time he documented conflicts in Kashmir, Iraq, Sri Lanka, India and Afghanistan. His most recent book Afghani...
19 Mars 201532min
#105: Lessons from a Navy SEAL on Resilience With Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens is a Rhodes Scholar that started out his career as a humanitarian but then became a Navy SEAL. His book The Heart and the Fist makes that case that in order to be a good man, you have to...
13 Mars 201531min
#104: The Code of Man With Waller Newell
I've quoted Dr. Waller Newell several times in my writing about masculinity on the Art of Manliness, and his approach towards manhood is very similar to the one that I take. So it was a pleasure to fi...
6 Mars 201532min
