Man Up and Embrace Virtue, by Auguste Meyrat

By Auguste Meyrat, The Catholic Thing, Sept. 23, 2023

Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher in the Dallas area. He holds an MA in Humanities and an MEd in Educational Leadership. He is the senior editor of The Everyman and has written essays for The Federalist, The American Thinker, and The American Conservative as well as the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.

It’s no secret that men in the 21st century are going through a collective crisis. Fewer of them attend college, work a job, or marry and have kids; far more of them commit suicide, abuse drugs, watch porn, and break laws. For decades now, women have increasingly eclipsed men in various areas of achievement, and the many waves of feminism have gradually eroded the defining traits of masculinity.

In his book Manhood, Senator Josh Hawley attempts to address this problem head-on and to offer a way through the stigmas and confusion obscuring true masculinity. For him, a great number of the pathologies afflicting men stem from today’s values or lack thereof. Whereas men in previous generations were formed in a solidly Christian culture that prioritized character development and healthy communities, today’s men are seduced by what Hawley calls “modern Epicureanism,” which sets men on a path of indulgence, mediocrity, and dependency. …

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