George Hahn

We've kept China at bay with a mix of globalization, strong coalitions, and military deterrence.

The bulwark of allies defending our most critical technological chokepoint took decades to build, but only a year to disassemble with incoherent isolationist economic policies, insults, and now a war that exposes the gaps in our armor.

The Strait of Hormuz

one-man satellite network, an autocracy cosplaying as a government, three cloud providers, one island.

We didn't stumble into these choke points.

We built them.

The invisible bipartisan hand of the market has been wrapping itself around our throat this whole time.

We mistook shareholder value and purity tests for resilience, finding welcome distractions in big tech earnings calls and arguments over pronouns.

The Manosphere and Robert Mueller, as read by George Hahn.

I think about masculinity a lot.

I have two sons, and the market for good, public male role models is experiencing a supply shock.

In his new Netflix documentary, Inside the Manosphere, filmmaker Louis Theroux chronicles influencers who cosplay as alpha males, displaying their fitness and wealth while vomiting misogynistic garbage regarding men dominating women.

Spoiler alert, these guys will die alone and forgotten.

They're also painfully boring.

After watching the film, Jessica Gross wrote, These influencers aren't providing a template for a virtuous life.

They are shills for an attention economy grift.

Tragically, there's never been anyone so adept at grifting the manosphere than Donald Trump.

He claims to be concerned with the plight of young men, an admirable aim of the manosphere, but peddles a loud, crass, and ultimately bogus version of masculinity in service of his own enrichment, at the expense of his marks.

In my book Notes on Being a Man, I offer a vision of masculinity that emphasizes the roles men can play as providers, protectors, and procreators.

Some people have pushed back, arguing that my framing overlooks men who don't fit easily into those categories.