This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc.

Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day.

The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology,

and apologetics. Expert guests? Expansive topics. Always extolling Christ. Issues, etc. We have discussed it many times, a crisis of masculinity or maleness or the role of males that has been in the works for the better part of now

60 years since the 1960s and the rise of feminism. So what have we come to? How do we have these

young men in particular who basically think there's nothing for them to do in life?

They can't find a woman. And the young women say they can't find a man that they would

spend time with much less merry. How did we get to this point? And how do we teach boys to become men?

Welcome back to issues, et cetera, joining us to discuss this topic. Tim Gagline,

he's vice president of government and external relations that focus on the family in Washington, D.C.

Formerly served as deputy director of White House Office of Public Liaison for President George

W. Bush and he's author of several books, including Stumbling Toward Utopia and

How We Can Revive the American Dream, and a recent column titled Our Suns Certain Crisis,

We Are All Paying the Price.

Tim, welcome back.

Thank you, Todd. It's always great to be with you.

Why was Charlie Kirk's message to young people and young men in particular so necessary?

Charlie Kirk's tragic death was a confirmation, Todd, of a legacy that will far outlive him

and will be just as important a hundred years from now as it is today, which is that Charlie Kirk

made it a point of saying that we have got to teach our boys how to be men. And the question

of how boys become men, what is that process within the family, within culture, within society, within the broader

community? Charlie Kirk made this a foundational part of his narrative and message wherever he went.

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