Back in January, Kate and I launched a new project: Dying Breed, our Substack newsletter.
While AoM and DB share the same spirit, Dying Breed is where we dig deeper. It’s where we explore the bigger, stranger, more philosophical ideas we’ve been chewing on. And while AoM is aimed primarily at men, Dying Breed is written for men and women alike.
Writing articles there and interacting with Dying Breed readers has been the most enjoyable part of the year for us.
If you haven’t become a paying subscriber of Dying Breed yet, I hope you’ll consider doing so.
Now, I know there are tons of other Substacks out there in the world, and tons of other things you can subscribe to as well. And if you’re just not into paying for another newsletter, I get it.
If that’s you, I’d encourage you to look at the subscription differently: as a donation that supports the Art of Manliness, where you get a free newsletter in return.
Each week on the Art of Manliness we publish articles that help men around the world improve every area of their lives — from their character to their health to their relationships to their hobbies. And we release a weekly episode of the AoM podcast that takes the same aim — presenting an interesting, engaging, edifying conversation with great thinkers and writers that offers both perspective-shifting ideas and practical takeaways.
We don’t get political. We don’t get partisan. And we don’t do dumb.
AoM is a pretty unique enterprise — there are very few outlets that present a positive vision for what it means to be a man.
For more than 17 years, we’ve striven to uphold high standards in values and quality and to put good stuff out into a world that’s saturated with an awful lot of dreck.
If you’ve gotten something out of AoM over the years, then consider giving back by making a donation in the form of a $50 annual subscription to Dying Breed. Your subscription will support the work we do here on AoM, and you get an awesome newsletter to read each week.
Two weekly pieces of content. Each week you get a short, reflection-stirring Sunday Fireside, plus a longer-form article. These pieces cover topics like luck, success, craftsmanship, virtue, technology, and meaning — underrated but fascinating subjects that not a lot of other people are talking about.
An ad-free, distraction-free experience. No pop-ups, no sponsored content, no algorithms. Just thoughtful writing from us to you.
Community and conversation. Subscribers can comment and connect directly with Kate and me, and with other Dying Breed readers.
Access to the full archive. Your subscription also unlocks 300 pieces of exclusive Dying Breed content available in the archives. Here’s a sampling of some of the articles we’ve published this year:
Dying Breed Articles
- The Passionless Game: Kierkegaard on Why Sports (and Life) Feel Flat
- A Tour of Our Home Office
- 20 Lessons From 20 Years of Marriage
- Becoming a Cinephile, Fifteen Minutes at a Time
- Why I Love Reading Biographies
- Average Is Over (In Everything)
- The Anti-Relevancy Guide to Staying Relevant
- How I Take Notes in Books
- Dying Breed Dialogues: Kyle Chayka on Escaping Algorithmic Sameness
- And much more!
Sunday Firesides
- Work the Fat Off Your Soul
- The Common Denominator Is You
- Forget Me Not
- Three-O’Clock-In-The-Morning Courage
- Do a Deadlift for the Departed
- Stuffed, But Starving
- Stop Sending Out Your Smaller Man
- You Did It Before and You’ll Do It Again
- And much more!
Why Your Subscription/Donation Matters
The online content marketplace has changed a lot over the years and ads generate about 1/100 of the revenue they once did. While we remain committed to keeping AoM completely free, ads alone no longer cover what it costs to produce all of it and to run a site that gets as much traffic as AoM does.
By subscribing to Dying Breed, you make a donation that helps keep AoM freely available to millions of readers around the world. And you get an awesome newsletter!
I hope you’ll consider becoming a Dying Breed subscriber and backing our mission.
As always, thanks for reading and for the truly appreciated support!
