Modern Wisdom · 2026-04-20 · 125 min · 26,564 words

A Shocking Turn in the War on Men - Richard Reeves - #1087

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What has changed or how has the debate about boys and men adapted since we last spoke? What's new? I think when we last spoke, I was still frustrated that there was no sort of political space for this. I think people have become aware. Things aren't great with boys and men.

There was raised awareness of it, but I still felt, maybe particularly on the center left, that it was difficult to actually do anything about it. And that's changed. I used to say one of my talking points used to be that it was very hard to get people, especially on the political left, to actually do anything about this problem. First of all, we have to get them to talk about it. A, it's a problem.

B, we can talk about it. And then C, we can do something about it. And I can't say that anymore. We've got governors, Governor Newsome, Governor Whitmer, Governor Wesmore in Maryland, also Governor Spencer Cox in Utah, all of whom have got pretty serious initiatives now to try and promote boys and men. We've got

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