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

Nov 4, 2022

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Is It Harder to Maintain a Strong Relationship After Divorce?

02:55

Is Marriage More Important to Men?

03:40

Is There a Difference Between Big Stats and Small Stats?

03:38

Introduction

2min

Is There Something Wrong With Boys and Men?

3min

What's the State of Men and Boys in Higher Education?

4min

Is the Education System Female Friendly?

4min

Is It About Time That Women Take Over the House?

5min

The Suffering of Young Men

3min

Are Men Opting Out of the System?

5min

I Think It's an Interesting Counterfactual Thought Experiment

2min

Is There a Difference Between Big Stats and Small Stats?

4min

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Are You a Scholar in This Area of Research?

2min

11.

You See Him Somewhere. Sit Up Straight

5min

12.

What's Your Perspective on Jordan Peterson?

5min

13.

I Got You, This Is What to Do, This Is How to Be

3min

14.

Andrew Tate's TikTok Videos Have Been Viewed 12 Billion Times

4min

15.

Andrew Tate, I Think He Knows What He's Doing Like Trump

2min

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The Peterson and Tate Comparison

5min

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Men in Divorce

3min

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Is Marriage More Important to Men?

4min

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What Are the Primary Theories as to Why Men Are Here?

4min

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What Do We Know About Black Families?

6min

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Is It Harder to Maintain a Strong Relationship After Divorce?

3min

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

7min

Richard Reeves is a writer, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of "Of Boys and Men." During our conversation Richard presents data detailing how boys and men are falling behind in education and employment, that men represent three out every four "deaths of despair," and the confusion over what is good about being a man and what it means to be a man as gender roles have significantly changed.

Richard also talks about the phenomenon of both Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate, why Peterson and Tate have gained such an audience, his primary concern of "checked-out" rather than "acting-out" men, the influence of video games and pornography, the effect of divorce on men, the evolutionary point and purpose of the male sex, and what can be done to help problems of modern men.

I think Richard's book will be a seminal work of our era. It puts the data to what is already known by millions of men: the isolation, the detachment, the loneliness, the disconnection, the feeling of being unnecessary, the silent despair. A healthy civilization encourages, designs, and incentivizes all of its citizens to flourish, and Richard's book should help raise our consciousness to the reality of the lives of so many men.

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(00:00) Intro

(02:24) How Richard realized men are falling behind