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Clarence Page: A crisis of masculinity? More like politics as usual

Perhaps it’s only coincidental but this, the summer of “Barbie,” also is the summer of our discontent in politics — over manhood.

Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, helped to get the ball rolling with a new book, “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs.”

I thought it was rather amusing since my vivid memories of Hawley on Jan. 6 included two newsmaking images: One was a photo of him raising a defiant fist of support toward the crowd of Donald

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