Marshall here. Welcome back to The Realignment.

Today's episode is a follow-up to one I recorded last year with Richard Reeves, author of

Boys and Men, why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it.

Today, speaking of John Lovell, author of The Warrior Poet Way, a guide to living free and dying well.

John's the founder of The Warrior Poet Society, a former army ranger, and a YouTuber.

Given his background and different ideological perspective from Richard, it was cool to approach the

man-slash masculinity crisis from a different perspective. This is obviously a polarizing topic,

but I suggest you get started by reading Christine Emba's recent piece in The Washington Post,

Men are lost, a map out of the wilderness, which I've linked in these show notes. Given that

Richard's launching an organization, the American Institute for Boys and Men, and senators on

the right, like Josh Holley of Missouri and Chris Murphy of Connecticut, are explicitly engaging

on the man crisis issue. It's clear that this is no longer 2017, and this is just space

solely staked out for good or for ill by Jordan Peterson. Hope you all are having a great start to

your August, and of course, a huge thank you to the foundation for American innovation for supporting

the work of this podcast. John Lovell, welcome to The Realignment. Thanks for having me on

Marshall. Yeah, it's great to chat with you. I think your book came out at a really interesting

time. There's been this evolving conversation about the state of men and masculinity in America,

right now. In a few years ago, you've written about this in your book. This was sort of

constrained to the Jordan Peterson kind of YouTube side of the world, but recently outlets from

like the Atlantic to the Washington Post started picking this up. So I want to just kind of read

a couple interesting factoids off and get your reaction to. And you could obviously fit that

into the story you're telling in the book. So now for every 100 bachelor degrees received by women

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