Inside the training camps for “alpha males”
The Trump era has brought a resurgence of the “alpha male.” ‘New Yorker’ writer Charles Bethea reports on camps where men crawl through mud and sit in ice baths, in an effort to reclaim masculinity. Bethea says what he found underneath all the warrior posturing surprised him: men in genuine pain who felt lonely and desperate for connection. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about his reporting.
Also, book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel by Tana French, ‘The Keeper.’
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2026-03-31
45 min
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