About Dead Reckoning
Dead Reckoning is a space for essays and conversations that challenge the American blueprint for manhood—a script built on the paradox that to be a “real man” means to silence our own heart's needs for connection, freedom, and vulnerability. But this old script is failing us and needs to be reimagined. Dead Reckoning exists to craft a new set of stories for men—stories that hold space for both the wounds we carry and the wounds we’ve inflicted. It is a place for honesty, reckoning, and the pursuit of a deeper, more humane masculinity—one that embraces complexity, confronts pain, and refuses to settle for isolation.