Or at least as much sense as can be made of Carlson’s palpitating anxiety about the demise of masculinity – “the total collapse of testosterone levels in American men” is “one of the biggest stories of our lifetimes,” he says in one teaser – and his guest’s quack recommendation that men beam red light on their naked crotches to turbo boost their testosterone production. If you’ve seen the now-viral teasers for Tucker Carlson’s Fox News special The End of Men, featuring shirtless hunks wrestling each other and chopping wood while the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey thunders in the background, that phrase will make some sense. Rachel Giese is a deputy national editor at The Globe and Mail. If you’re reading this on the web or someone forwarded this e-mail newsletter to you, you can sign up for Amplify and all Globe newsletters here. This is the weekly Amplify newsletter, where you can be inspired and challenged by the voices, opinions and insights of women at The Globe and Mail.
