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Good morning again, everyone. 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 Okay? 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 cede 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 of the nation raises some

of the questions surrounding American men today. Why is there now a much lower rate of going to

college or entering the workforce among men than among women? Why have women changed so much

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