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The Michael Shermer Show

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

The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

Science, Natural Sciences

4.31K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0

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1:00.9

while you uncover the remarkable ways in which the medieval world still influences

1:05.1

our thinking, our collective consciousness and our ways of life.

1:08.9

Indeed, really the Dark Ages?

1:12.1

No one at the time thought they were living in the dark ages right I mean be like somebody 500 years from now saying oh those people in the 21st century they were living in the dark ages of course we don't have any idea what they're going to think about us, but as you can tell we don't think we're living in the dark ages.

1:26.2

Okay, so here's a few of the lectures on this one. This is by the way 36, 30 minute lectures.

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Of course the Black Death is featured prominently in there, the

1:34.7

medieval invention of race, question mark, interesting, since race is such a huge issue for

1:40.2

us. Medievalism and modern racism.

1:43.0

Ah, that's probably what's actually going on here.

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