Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ. The Bull Works Weekly Roundtable

discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charents, indicated columnist and policy editor of the Bulwark.

I am joined by our regulars.

Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal,

Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center, and Damon Linker, who writes the sub-stack newsletter,

Eyes on the Right.

Our special guest this week is Brookings

Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves. We have a lot to get to this week with

news about China, news about anti-Semitism,

Kanyay, Trump, etc.

But I'd like to begin with a discussion of Richard's new book.

It is called of Boys and Men. of neglected. It's something that I address somewhat in my 2018 book, Sex Matters.

He has some innovative ideas, so thank you, Richard, for being here.

First, let's begin with laying out the problem. You talk about the fact that when Title IX was first

passed, it was explicitly to close a gender gap in higher education that favored males. But a lot has changed since then, right?

Yeah, in fact, it's gone the other way. So in 1972, when Title IX was passed, there was about a 13 percentage point advantage for men over women,

getting a four-year college degree. Today it's about 15 percentage points, the other way around, advantages for women over men.

And so on that measure and on most other measures in terms of higher education, there's a bigger

gender gap today than there was when Title IX was passed. It's just the other way around.

And I think it's worth noting that nobody really predicted that.

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