Rediscovering Chivalry
Honorable Behavior in a Lax Age
By Stephen McGarvey
January 4, 2006

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"Chivalry has not been a widely used term in the last century. Its usage today is likely to conjure up the mental picture of a stuffy Victorian or an armor-clad knight astride his noble steed. Both caricatures contrast with the average man of popular culture. As mentioned in a recent “BreakPoint” commentary, media constantly portray contemporary men as perpetual adolescents, preoccupied with nothing more than sports, booze, and sex—“mooks,” one New York University professor describes them."

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