299. Richard Reeves Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

Published: Sept. 29, 2022, 7 a.m.

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Shermer and Reeves discuss: \\u2022 comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries \\u2022 education \\u2022 work/labor market \\u2022 family \\u2022 marriage \\u2022 Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support \\u2022 intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men \\u2022 intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men \\u2022 What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) \\u2022 what the political left gets wrong about boys and men \\u2022 what the political right gets wrong about boys and men \\u2022 solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL \\u2022 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.

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