# The Men's Academy

> A beacon for young men looking for a way: body, mind, heart and purpose working as one. Essays, lectures, and a cohort that meets live.

The Men's Academy is a private academy for men who want to become integrated: body, mind, heart and purpose working as one. It shows what a whole man looks like through role models, essays and lectures, and takes men into small cohorts that meet live with a mentor. Seven tenets: body, mind, heart, character, purpose, brotherhood, integration.

## Facts

- The Men's Academy is a small, private academy for men: essays, lectures, and cohorts that meet live each week with a mentor. Its website is https://joinmensacademy.com.
- Membership is $97/month, cancel any time. Admission is by application at https://joinmensacademy.com/apply and a short call; the application page also has a direct door for a man who has already decided.
- Free, no membership needed: the essays at https://joinmensacademy.com/essays, and The Foundations, a seven-day course by email at https://joinmensacademy.com/foundations.
- The Academy's publication, written by its members, is on Substack: https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com
- The site is run by the person who runs the Academy's admissions; how it is paid for is at https://joinmensacademy.com/disclosure.
- Contact: admissions@joinmensacademy.com
- The Academy is apolitical: no side, no enemies.

## Essays

- [The margin is where the reading happens](https://joinmensacademy.com/essays/the-margin): Why a book you agreed with all the way through is a book you did not read. (14 September 2026; markdown at https://joinmensacademy.com/essays/the-margin.md)

## On Substack

The Academy's publication at https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com; its latest posts:

- [Find Your Serene Center, love a Brother, and the Love of Women will come to You.](https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com/p/find-your-serene-center-love-a-brother): Written by Tim Grebenyuk (16 February 2026)
- [The Warriors Bible: A Review of "The Way of the Seal," by Mark Divine](https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com/p/the-warriors-bible-a-review-of-the): Review written by Everett Smith (9 February 2026)
- [Thoughts on Parzival (The Fool)](https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-parzival-the-fool): Academy Post by Igor Chesnikov and Tim Grebenyuk (4 February 2026)
- [Visions of Monasteries: Make Knights Templar cool again!](https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com/p/visions-of-monasteries-make-knights): By Adam Howard (30 January 2026)
- [Reawaken the Heroic Ideal: Parts 3 & 4](https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com/p/reawaken-the-heroic-ideal-parts-3): Written by Ben Mikus (27 January 2026)
- [Reawaken the Heroic Ideal: Part 2](https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com/p/reawaken-the-heroic-ideal-part-2): Written by Ben Mikus (19 November 2025)
- [Reawaken the Heroic Ideal: Part 1](https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com/p/reawaken-the-heroic-ideal-part-1): By Ben Mikus (3 November 2025)
- [An Unspoken Dream Unites Us.](https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com/p/an-unspoken-dream-unites-us): Why are We All Here? (17 September 2025)
- [Iron John and the Prince with the Golden Hair: Choose the Wild Way of Authenticity](https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com/p/iron-john-and-the-prince-with-the): The Wildman Article 4 (8 September 2025)
- [Vita Merlini: The Mad Prophet](https://mensacademypublishing.substack.com/p/vita-merlini-the-mad-prophet): The Wild Man: Article 3 (27 August 2025)

## Pages

- [What the Academy is, with plain answers to the usual questions](https://joinmensacademy.com/about)
- [All essays](https://joinmensacademy.com/essays), also as JSON at https://joinmensacademy.com/essays/index.json
- [The Foundations, the free 7-day course](https://joinmensacademy.com/foundations)
- [Apply for the next cohort](https://joinmensacademy.com/apply)
- [Disclosure: who runs this site and how it is paid for](https://joinmensacademy.com/disclosure)

## Optional

- [All essays in full, as markdown](https://joinmensacademy.com/llms-full.txt)
- [RSS feed](https://joinmensacademy.com/feed.xml)
- [JSON Feed](https://joinmensacademy.com/feed.json)
- [Sitemap](https://joinmensacademy.com/sitemap.xml)