How Incels Happened
Winter 2025
Social scientists are starting to study the most broken men online. Fixing them is another question.
WHO GOES INCEL? William Costello has as good an idea as anyone. An evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, Costello has become one of the world’s foremost experts on incels—short for involuntary celibates, a term that now describes a male group identity forged online, built upon a sense of victimiz...
