{"id":59962,"date":"2016-10-14T14:37:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=59962"},"modified":"2026-10-14T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:40:59","slug":"podcast-243-becoming-barbarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manhood\/podcast-243-becoming-barbarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #243: Becoming a Barbarian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, my guest today published what has become an underground cult classic on masculinity. His name is Jack Donovan<\/span> and that book was The Way of Men<\/i><\/a>. I had him on the podcast a few years ago to discuss it — check it out if you haven\u2019t listened to it<\/a>. In The Way of Men,<\/i> Donovan<\/span> argued that for men to really live what he calls the “tactical virtues” of masculinity, they need to join an all-male honor group, or what he calls a gang or tribe. In his latest book, Becoming a Barbarian<\/i><\/a>, Donovan<\/span> lays out what creating these honor groups would look like.<\/p>\n

On today\u2019s show, Jack and I discuss why masculinity is often tragic, why today\u2019s modern world makes it hard for men to form male honor groups, the difference between a club and a tribe, and what it means to start the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, my guest today published what has become an underground cult classic on masculinity. His name is Jack Donovan and that book was The Way of Men. I had him on the podcast a few years ago to discuss it — check it out if you haven\u2019t listened to it. In The Way of Men, Donovan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,42387,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-manhood","category-podcast"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/243-538x280.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/243-768x432.png","aom":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/243-372x230.png","reactor-320":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/243-320x180.png","reactor-640":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/243-640x360.png"},"yoast_head":"\nPodcast #243: Becoming a Barbarian | The Art of 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