Tag: identity

• September 20, 2025

  Where have all the Sad and Angry songs gone?

  How mainstream music no longer reflects the temper of our time I heard a French song on the radio the other day. It sounded like one of those lovely ballads from around the time of the Second World War, and it had a melody and lyrics that were sung with just enough melancholy to somehow…
• August 18, 2025

  “The Snowflake Effect: How the Self-Esteem Movement Ruined a Generation”

  Just reading the contents page, I had the feeling this could be a good read and I wasn’t disappointed. In this punchy little book, Trey Willis makes logical, well-researched and largely convincing arguments for why his own Generation Y is essentially selfish, especially when compared to previous generations of North Americans. He looks at popular…
• July 9, 2025

  Oh, father! Where art thou?

  An excerpt from my first book (“The Remade Parent”) published at The Good Men Project “The American author and father Paul Theroux once said that the expression “Be a man!” strikes him as insulting and abusive. That it actually means: “Be stupid, be unfeeling, obedient and soldierly, and stop thinking. Manliness…is a hideous and crippling…
• May 9, 2025

  “Why We Are Girls” (Rose Hunter’s poem in Catalan and English)

  The fine Australian poet and writer Rose Hunter first had this poem published in Event magazine then here at VerseDaily. It was translated by Antoni Cardona and I in April-May 2025. Why We Are Girls —(Or ladies, sometimes, but everyone knows that’s a bit funny) A girl is a wisp, a potato chip barely there,…