Mastodawn

"I watched a small son get pummelled. 'That was fun,' he said flatly when it was over. Heading back to the gym, one notably silent son told me that his father had made him come." —Charles Bethea for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/06/the-camps-promising-to-turn-you-or-your-son-into-an-alpha-male?src=longreads #alphamale #masculinity #fatherhood #longreads

The Camps Promising to Turn You—or Your Son—Into an Alpha Male

At the Men of War Crucible, you bear-crawl through rivers. At Warrior Week, you dig your own grave. At the Squire Program, your teen-ager can take part, too. Charles Bethea reports.

The New Yorker