Maxxed Out: Young Men, Old Scripts, and New Pressures

About this episode

This episode explores the modern crisis among young men through the lens of fatherhood, literature, and cultural commentary.

Masculinity is being optimized, marketed, and polarized in real time. But what if the real work is slower and more integrated? Corey Alderdice, a national voice in talent and transformation, explores the modern crisis among young men through the lens of fatherhood, literature, and cultural commentary. Drawing on contemporary conversations about male drift and revisiting high school texts like The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms, this episode examines the tension between surface-lev...

People in this episode

Host: Corey Alderdice

Topics covered

• masculinity
• fatherhood
• cultural commentary
• literature
• male drift
• modern crisis

Keywords

• masculinity
• young men
• fatherhood
• literature
• cultural commentary
• male drift

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms

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