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Michael Walsh worries the West has lost cultural confidence that was its hallmark for 2500 years. In his tour de force Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost he looks at why men over the ages have been willing to fight against overwhelming and often, against impossible odds, facing certain death. He views it as a sign of civilizational vigor.
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1 de dez. de 2020 · Award-winning author Michael Walsh celebrates the masculine attributes of heroism that forged American civilization and Western culture by exploring historical battles in which soldiers chose death over dishonor in Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost. In our contemporary era, men are increasingly denied their heritage as warriors.
Something I enjoyed about Why Men Fight is it offers more solutions than criticisms. Unfortunately those solutions tend to be unfounded conjecture, which history has proven to be false. It is also interesting how Russell finds the root of war in personal and social issues such as education, family structure, and personal liberty, rather than in things like international relations and weaponry.
The Science of Ending Conflict War has long been the subject of history, philosophy, and poetry. Now, science may be revealing the hard truth about why men fight—and what could make them stop.
2 de mar. de 2018 · Distorted thinking. In a 2015 University of North Dakota survey of 86 men, 31.7 per cent said they would act on "intentions to force a woman to sexual intercourse" if they could get away with it ...
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15 de mar. de 2016 · It’s easy to see why men fight over precious and necessary things such as food, wealth, or the love of a woman. But duelists so often killed, and were killed, over trifles—loose words, rumors, impertinent looks.
