Over the past couple years the simple, ubiquitous hormone testosterone has become a major front of the culture war, thus hopelessly miring information on the subject in endless distortions online. Now, with the average male clocking in at dramatically lower T levels than his father or grandfather at the same age — an ongoing disaster with all manner of biological and social consequence — it has never been more difficult to find information pertaining to the possible reason, or reasons, let alone any potential solutions to the problem.

Can humanity persist in a world without men? Or, at least, a world without the hormone that makes men masculine? Jordan Castro guests today with the canonical piece on this most divisive, essential hormone.

-Solana