Jack Donovan
Virtue, philosophy, aesthetics, and culture. Solar Idealism.
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Magnanimity
A Reworked Translation of Aristotle’s Crowning Excellence
One of the main arguments in my new book on virtue is that translation has created a lot of confusion about the word virtue and over-expanded its definition. Virtue (virtus) is Lati...
Gen X, Please Stop Embarrassing Us
Jack Donovan. 2026.
To a young man, there is no more eternally tedious conversation than one that starts with some version of, “well, you know, back in my day…”
It’s a strange feeling, watching people your own age start to act like OLD PE...
The Book as Total Artwork
People do judge books by their covers, and they should.
Ten or so years ago, men would spend months or years writing books. Then they’d slap half-assed covers on them, and wonder why they were treated as hacks. Their afterthought covers ma...
Practicing Unhappiness
Relief with Menander and New Comedy Masks - (Wikimedia Commons)
As part of my research for a book project, I’ve been reading about positive psychology.
One of the big problems with the majority of psychology and medicine alike is that the...
The Bro Diet is Initiatory
Photo by Jack Donovan of his actual lunch today.
I’ve been busy working on a book, but The Bro Diet diet came up in conversation the other day. So here’s something fun and light while I torture myself doing moral philosophy.
Decades ago,...
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Essays on virtue, masculinity, culture, and aesthetics. Solar Idealist. Author of The Way of Men and Fire in the Dark. Founder of The Order of Fire. Fitness photography and videography.
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