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2 months ago | 
newsletter.oalannoble.com | O. Alan Noble |Chris Arnade
Two recent articles have had me thinking about what a positive vision for masculinity looks like. The first is entitled “All Men Want to Be Heroes” by , an insightful cultural critic and excellent ambulator. The second is entitled “Defining Healthy Masculinity: A Response to Louise Perry” and was written by Luke Simon. Both articles argue that a positive vision for masculinity is possible and necessary and that heroism has something to do with it, particularly the self-sacrificial hero.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Greg Fournier |O. Alan Noble |Jonah Goldberg |Nathan J. Beacom
If I asked you to picture a philosopher, you might recall The Thinker, the bronze statue sculpted by Auguste Rodin that sits outside the Musée Rodin in Paris. The sculpture depicts a naked, muscular man sitting hunched over, his chin resting awkwardly on the back of his hand, apparently deep in thought.
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2 months ago | 
newsletter.oalannoble.com | O. Alan Noble |Ryan Burge
Author’s Note: Whether this particular topic interests you or not, let me encourage you to consider becoming a paid subscriber. Writing two posts a week is a challenge and joy for me, and I hope I’m able to bring some real value to you, my readers. Just to give you some idea, this piece took all of Sunday morning and most of the afternoon to brainstorm and write (we were home sick with the flu, so no church).
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2 months ago | 
bonniekristian.substack.com | Bonnie Kristian |O. Alan Noble |Stephanie Murray |Olga Khazan
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, and here’s this week’s post. I suggested at the end of last week’s post that this week I’d likely write something on the new Trump administration, but, mea culpa, I’m not going to do it.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
ministrywatch.com | O. Alan Noble |Ryan Burge
OPINION—One of the stories of the contemporary world’s unraveling is the story of loss of social trust, particularly in institutions. And one of those institutions is organized religion. According to Ryan Burge, “In the most recent data, about 15% of folks expressed a great deal of confidence in religion, while the share who had hardly any trust has risen from 15% in 1972 to 35% today.”This is not just true among atheists.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
newsletter.oalannoble.com | O. Alan Noble |Ryan Burge
One of the stories of the contemporary world’s unraveling is the story of loss of social trust, particularly in institutions. And one of those institutions is organized religion. According to , “In the most recent data, about 15% of folks expressed a great deal of confidence in religion, while the share who had hardly any trust has risen from 15% in 1972 to 35% today.” This is not just true among atheists.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
open.substack.com | O. Alan Noble |Ryan Burge
One of the stories of the contemporary world’s unraveling is the story of loss of social trust, particularly in institutions. And one of those institutions is organized religion. According to , “In the most recent data, about 15% of folks expressed a great deal of confidence in religion, while the share who had hardly any trust has risen from 15% in 1972 to 35% today.” This is not just true among atheists.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
open.substack.com | O. Alan Noble
Last week Meta announced that they were rolling back a series of measures they’ve had in place since at least the 2016 debacle of an election to prevent the spread of disinformation. As Zuckerberg says in the video announcement, they were well-intentioned measures, but they turned out to be too restrictive and censored perfectly appropriate content. Remembering the 2016 election season, I am quite sympathetic, personally. The disinformation campaigns, especially on Facebook, were horrific.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
newsletter.oalannoble.com | O. Alan Noble
Last week Meta announced that they were rolling back a series of measures they’ve had in place since at least the 2016 debacle of an election to prevent the spread of disinformation. As Zuckerberg says in the video announcement, they were well-intentioned measures, but they turned out to be too restrictive and censored perfectly appropriate content. Remembering the 2016 election season, I am quite sympathetic, personally. The disinformation campaigns, especially on Facebook, were horrific.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
newsletter.oalannoble.com | O. Alan Noble
Under the heading of temperance fall the vice of curiositas and the sub-virtue of studiositas. A few months ago I wrote about the the vice of curiositasin relation to the David Platt documentary and the Steve Lawson scandal. At the time, I wrote that curiositas is “a perverse, restless desire for knowledge that goes beyond what is respectable, reasonable, and appropriate, that goes beyond all limits.
