The Heroic Gent

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong,” said Mahatma Gandhi. This is often explained with the idea that true forgiveness requires immense inner strength, courage, and maturity. The weak don’t have this inner strength. The weak will give in to moral expediency. Therefore, forgiveness is an attribute of the strong. Most explanations stop right there. This is why so many were shocked when Jordan Peterson said a good man must be dangerous. Even

After Secretary of War Pete Hegseth used the longstanding U.S. military phrase “we leave no man behind” while praising a recent high-risk rescue of a downed American airman behind enemy lines in Iran, on his MSNBC show, Lawrence O’Donnell said Hegseth was sexist. “That is, of course, the old school version of the idea. Back when only men flew American military planes,” said O’Donnell before adding “that that could have been a woman they were trying to rescue—and it might be

Scroll down in The Library section of this site and you'll find a list of 100 manly films every Heroic Gent should see. This, of course, is an eclectic list, as many men from different backgrounds and with different tastes contributed to this list. We'll talk about many more films--new and old--here, as this list is hardly static. Still, there are likely quite a few here you don't know. So explore. We begin, as we should with the 1959 version of Ben-Hur , directed by William

“The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing.” –Babylonian proverb   Many think of fishing as a child’s sport. And it is a fine one. Casting a bobber and worm to sunfish on a Saturday afternoon is an American pastime, an experience every child should try, at least once. Fishing is more than child’s play, though. Fishing can be an adrenaline sport, but mostly fishing seduces you into falling into harmony with the water, and through it, to nature

The International Olympic Committee’s (OIC) announcement on March 26, 2026, that only actual women can compete in women’s sports. This is being heralded as a victory for women, and it is, but it is also a victory for men. No longer will a few biological men be allowed to embarrass the rest of those with Y chromosomes by beating up women (boxing), by pounding volley balls into their heads, and more. Now women’s sports, at least in the Olympics, will only be for those with XX