Are You a Liberal?

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i think that what happened in the women's movement, and you saw some prominent examples of this in warren farrel is probably a sort of personal example. Iike, these are not my people. They seem to hate women. It's almost a conspiracy theory, like they're out to get men. Andtt, as i said, there's a war on boys, or war on men. No one sensible feels that. But what they do feel is er,. there's a lot of issues for boys and men. Now maybe, hey, maybe we should tackle those without meaning we have to turn on women. These false choices and false bineries have been a huge problem, i

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.