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The past week has brought us two similar ideas of masculinity, separated by 4,000 years. When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the initiation of testosterone screening in all U.S. servicemembers 30 and older under the title “The High T Department of War,” his vision was as clear as an IMAX projection of Odysseus: a warrior in his physical prime, lethal in battle, unquestionably ascendant in the home, anointed by god.
Both of these men, the classical hero and the optimized modern soldier, are fantasies. But I’m worried Hegseth’s vision is a tragedy in the making
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