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In 2020, 56% of men under 30 voted for Joe Biden.

In 2024, that same percentage, 56% voted for Donald Trump. That dramatic swing

is cited in the April cover story of the Nation magazine, a story with the title, Are Men OK?

And the answer largely is no. On its face, the article is a profile of the author Richard Reeves. Some of you know of him.

He wrote that book called Of Boys and Men, Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why It Matters, and

What to Do About It. The article also brings in other writers on the topic, Susan Faludi, Jessica

Falarko, Hannah Rosen, others. but most of the article frames the issue of

men and masculinity today through describing Richard Reeves and the pushback to him from both

left and right. The article explains that Reeves sees his project as trying to not seed the

national conversation about the plight and the alienation of men today to the right-wing

manosphere, to not seed the conversation to that. Reeves celebrates feminism as perhaps the

quote, greatest economic liberation in human history. That's a quote cited in the article.

Barack Obama put Reeves' book on his public

summer reading list. It's endorsed by Senator Chris Murphy, among others. Through the profile of

Richard Reeves, the article in the nation raises some of the questions surrounding American

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