Quotes from Stephen Marche

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

Money can turn into everything but we can only turn into ourselves.

If we could scrape away what time does to men, we would love every boy.

When you are fighting for freedom and your soul, what won't you do?

You might say that the North won the war and the South won the peace. But that's not entirely accurate. The North won progress. The South won heritage. The North won the future. The South won the past. And it is not clear at all which is more powerful. The reconciliation is "how we chose to lie to each other for a hundred and fifty years,

The federal system no longer represents the will of the American people.

At a Trump rally after the election, a reporter spotted a pair of Republicans wearing shirts that read, I'D RATHER BE A RUSSIAN THAN A DEMOCRAT. Centuries before, George Washington, riding out of thriving Philadelphia toward the lush hills of Mount Vernon, recognized what the failure of American democracy would look like. It looks like them.

The fruit of hyper-partisanship and a toxic informational environment is paralysis—paralysis at a moment of peril.

The norm of bipartisan agreement has been shattered forever and, once shattered, it cannot be put back together.

Perhaps it was a failure right from the start: slave owners preaching freedom and equality. But it would be a lie, an evil lie, to say that the American experiment did not give the world a glorious and transcendent vision of human beings: worth affirming in their differences, vital in their contradiction. That is still a vision of human existence worth fighting for.

The main reason Americans buy guns is to tell themselves the story of the failure of government.

Jefferson himself believed it was the "solemn opportunity" of every generation to update the constitution "every nineteen or twenty years.

The technical definition of a civil war, according to the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, is a thousand combatant deaths within a year. The definition of civil strife starts at twenty-five deaths within a year. In the United States in 2019, domestic anti-government extremists killed forty-two people; in 2018 they killed fifty-three people; in 2017, thirty-seven; in 2016, seventy-two; and in 2015, seventy.

Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.

Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.

The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."

You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.

Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job.

Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.

Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.