​ At the risk of beginning by placing my credibility in peril, I’ll just say it. For a while now I’ve found the concept of the man cave both irritating and puzzling without ever having articulated why. It’s not, however, difficult to understand the what. Allow me to quote at length from The Man Cave Book, a how-to guide to creating a man cave of one’s own: The man cave is an opportunity—maybe our best and last opportunity—for freedom. Freedom from responsibility, freedom from