Are We Getting More Women in Our Fighter Jets?

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i want as many women flying fighter jets as are best at flying fighter jets. But what message all we send to our kids if there are literally no men in those prek class rooms about the role of men? So i think there's another reason why the left should be much more concerned about this issue than they are. Purely from a moral perspective, wer we want a society wherevery one can flourish. I don't know a single parent that doesn't want their son to flourish in the same way as their daughter,. and vice verse. And so i do think in the end, this does come back to you t some of your themes, yasha. A lot of men

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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