It’s famously been said that every individual is the average of the five people he interacts with most. Life experience certainly bears out the validity of this truism. A teenager falls into a friend group that practically undoes the influence of a previous decade and a half of parenting. A soldier goes into a deployment […]| The Art of Manliness
In letters men exchanged in the 18th and 19th centuries, they referred to one another as “bosom friends,” exulted in their “eternal” and “ardent” attachment, and affirmed that even when apart, “my heart is knit with thine.” In photographs from the same era, men hold hands, sit on each other’s laps, and wrap their arms […]| The Art of Manliness