You Have to See It to Make It Work

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When i a wanted to be a bike racer in the early eighties, 19 79, 19 80, i just met a couple of the local like prose in orange county,. and i just hung out with him. I wonder how he does this? So i got to know, i just best, how do you do this? Well, you have an agen and i'll introduce you to the agent, cause he liked me. And then you're off and roll in, and it'sl i see. Ok. Cras, i wasn't thinking about n what roll model this is for me. But that line you used, you have to see it to make it an what was

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.