Of Men and Manliness

In the “highly recommended” category is Anthony Esolen’s No Apologies. Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men, in which the learned and pugnacious scholar unapologetically argues, “Patriarchy is built into our nature. Wherever the role of the father is at ebb, liberty languishes.” John Adam Moreau is impressed with Esolen’s thesis that real masculinity has been dangerously discarded, but pines for solutions, which Esolen promises for another book.