How To Dad in 2023: A Roundtable With Our Favorite Fathers

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Happy Father's Day! For today's episode, a conversation about fatherhood with three dads who have thought a lot about parenthood, masculinity and being a dad in a world stripped of convention. Richard Reeves is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the author of the book Of Boys and Men about why boys and men are falling behind in so many aspects of American life. Ryan Holiday is a writer, bookstore owner, Daily Stoic and Daily Dad podcast host. Ian Rowe is a Senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute where he works on issues surrounding education and upward mobility, family formation, adoption. He’s also Chairman of the board at the Spence-Chapin adoption organization, author of the book, Agency, and cofounder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of character-based International Baccalaureate high schools in the Bronx. Along with guest host Eli Lake, the four dads talk: fatherhood, marriage and if it matters anymore, what's up with "toxic masculinity," being a role model for boys, adoption, if the rules and traditions of gender are hurting today's dads or if they offer wisdom we need to re-embrace, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	I'm Eli Lake in for Barry Weiss and this is honestly.
0:35.0	Happy Father's Day.
0:38.0	Before we get into today's episode,
0:40.0	I wanted to share a few thoughts on my own recent experience of becoming a
0:44.7	dad and losing my father. Nearly two years ago my queen gave birth to a curious, determined, beautiful, independent little baby, and we named her Nora.
1:00.0	It was a bittersweet summer. As soon as I saw her, I knew I would do anything for this girl.
1:06.0	At the same time, I was filled with sadness.
1:09.0	My father, who was so eager to meet her,
1:12.0	died suddenly only five weeks before she was born.
1:16.7	He collapsed from a brain bleed on my birthday and died the next day in the hospital.
1:26.9	My father was a social genius. He had a superpower to get strangers to like him and say just the right thing that they wanted to hear without coming
1:32.4	off phony.
1:34.0	He could persuade waiters to offer us free dessert
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