The Dream Hoarding Is Taking a Left Wing Hue

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Not forty years ago, if you knew that somebody was at the bottom of the income distributin baslo, told you they most likely voted for a left wing party. And now, when you know that somebody is a professional with a high education, that tells you were very likely to vote for the left. So why is it that this cultural background music to the dream hoarding is taking a left wing hue rather than a right wing one? Ye wi think it's a couple of things. One is that the dream hoarders do have for your college degrees, and typically ar married to somebody else, or with someone lse who has for your college Degrees. That's become increasingly associated

Richard Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Dream Hoarders and, most recently, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Richard Reeves discuss how the upper middle-class has cornered the market on economic opportunity; why helping men does not mean undoing progress for women; and whether the problems facing men and boys are more structural than we often think.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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