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Episode 67: Richard Reeves - The Quiet Despair Of Modern Men

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Are We Going to Start Boys a Year After Girls in Kindergarten or First Grade?

I think it's important for people like me to be engaging in this debate with sort of policy one Korean facts and solutions that you'd expect from a Brookings Institution scholar because it sort of mainstreams it somewhat. Matthew Iglesias had a long review of the book over on his sub-stacks slow boring which is excellent and he said that the book was earnest bordering on banal and it was the highest praise imaginable. I'm proud to have played even a small part in helping to bring that about then I get into some solutions. We need a massive recruitment drive of male teachers we do need much bigger investment in vocational training including technical high schools and apprenticeships which disproportionately help boys and men

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