Are Men Finished and Should We Help Them?

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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By several measures, men are in trouble. Women outnumber them in college enrollment. And even once there, men are not as likely to graduate. Men also face higher levels of substance abuse, higher numbers of overdoses, higher incarceration rates, lower life expectancies, and suicide levels that are nearly four times more likely than women. In this context we debate the question: Are Men Finished and Should We Help Them? Arguing Yes: Richard Reeves, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Arguing No: Hanna Rosin, Award-Winning Journalist and Podcast host Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, I'm John Don Van.
0:03.8	Welcome to Open to Debate.
0:06.9	And nope, you were maybe expecting me to say welcome to Intelligent Squared, but after
0:10.5	more than 220 debates, we are changing our name and we're doing it for a very, very
0:15.3	specific reason.
0:16.3	And I wanted to bring in our CEO, the CEO of Open to Debate, Clay Acona to talk a little
0:21.3	bit more about this evolution.
0:23.5	Hi, Clay.
0:24.5	Hi, John.
0:26.8	I know Clay, this evolution comes from our thinking things through and feeling there's
0:31.5	an issue out there in the culture and that we may be in a position to help address it.
0:36.9	That's right.
0:37.9	It was really prompted by a couple of alarming trends.
0:41.7	One is historic levels of polarization.
0:44.1	I think we all feel that.
0:45.4	It's in our communities.
0:46.4	It's in our government.
0:47.6	It's kind of everywhere we turn.
0:48.8	In families.
0:49.8	And families.
0:50.8	So there's that coupled with coming out of the pandemic, a historic erosion of trust
0:56.3	in institutions.
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