Elliot Rodger was a racist. He was a misogynist. He was spoiled. He was neglected. He was sick. His parents failed him. Law enforcement failed him. Society failed him. Movies and video games are too violent and desensitize us.  → Read More

In the recent and tragic Elliot Rodger shooting spree we can find nearly all our causes– misogyny, male entitlement, race (he was half-Asian and described feeling like an outcast), the banality of consumer culture, ubiquitous access to guns and undetected mental illness. That he, like all the school shooters in the U.S., is male has long been obvious. Seldom, though, do we dig deeper. Why are we creating so many angry young men?  → Read More

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One of the most challenging thing about raising teens is trying to understand their world as they see and experience it. Of course, we had it all figured out as teens, knew exactly what we were talking about and how things worked. Totally. Yet here we are as parents, two or three decades later, trying to figure it all out so we can do right by our sons.  → Read More

I’ve been a fan of Kenny Florian since January 2006. He was on Season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter reality show – a show that continues to this day and is widely considered the way that the sport of mixed martial arts truly emerged into the public sphere. Kenny’s normalcy is what struck me the most. Among all the “characters” of the show, Kenny appeared like a regular guy. He wasn’t a “fighter” as much as he was a martial artist. It was clear that his words and general demeanor were shaped not only by the lessons learned through physical training, but of deep thought and meditation. This was all speculation, of course.  → Read More

Ned Breslin joined the team at Water For People in 2006 after working on water and sanitation issues for 16 years in Africa. In 2011, thanks to his taking the lead on making innovative initiatives both scalable and sustainable, he was awarded the 2011 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Ned’s insights and experiences have been fundamentally enriched in partnership with his wife Lindsey, whose dedication to HIV/Aids, and women and children in difficult situations, has inspired him for over 2 decades. Ned is the proud father of two girls who were both born and raised in Africa and who, he told me, continue to guide him at least as much as he guides them. Ned took time out of his busy schedule to answer some questions for us here at The Good Men Project. Here goes:  → Read More

Men’s roles are changing almost faster than we can keep up with the change. Here are ten reasons that make the conversation about men so incredibly important.  → Read More

After witnessing men in my graduate Women’s Studies classes drop out like an epidemic, I was curious how to make the program more inclusive.  → Read More

Roman Krznaric is the author of The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live, The First Beautiful Game: Stories of Obsession in Real Tennis and his recently-released How to Find Fulfilling Work (see my review here). He’s a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London and his life’s mission right now is to build the world’s first empathy museum. To the interview:  → Read More