It makes sense that our culture is embracing the mojo-free man right now. As America comes to terms with our diminished omnipotence in the wake of 9/11, the Iraq War and President Bush's international unpopularity, we're growing weary of Teflon-coated John Wayne stereotypes of masculinity. Donald Rumsfeld, Ken Lay, Mel Gibson, Don Imus-all chest-beating, leader-of-the-pack men, and look what happened to them. The alpha dog doesn't hunt anymore. The new role model is a beta male.

My great uncle was an senior editor at Newsweek for 30+ years. He was a WWII vet , 101 airborne, stormed the beaches on D-Day. He would in his last years, for the first time openly talk about the horrors he saw in the war, but absolutely refused to talk about his career at Newsweek, even though myself, and his grandson were both trying to enter the journalism/photography field.

The magazine is obviously utterly gutted and totally trashed, and has no future.