Richard Reeves on Why Men are Struggling

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Richard Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Dream Hoarders and, most recently, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Richard Reeves discuss how the upper middle-class has cornered the market on economic opportunity; why helping men does not mean undoing progress for women; and whether the problems facing men and boys are more structural than we often think. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:20.0	Hi there, I'm Luke Hallam, an associate editor of Persuasion, and I just published a piece called,
0:22.0	Britain needs a real constitution.
0:24.8	So the US has a codify constitution, which means its constitution is in one authoritative document
0:29.5	that everyone knows.
0:30.8	The UK doesn't have that.
0:32.0	Its constitution is essentially made up of various
0:34.3	conventions that have been passed down through the mists of time over hundreds of years.
0:37.9	This has a number of drawbacks which is why I think it's time to codify the UK's
0:41.8	constitution. First of all it's important
0:44.4	for just basic principles of transparency and rationality. So Queen Elizabeth II just
0:49.6	passed away and Charles the Third just became King of the United Kingdom.
0:54.0	All the various conventions governing when he becomes king, what ceremonies are appropriate,
0:59.0	how executive power is passed down, things like that, especially if the monarchy is to retain democratic legitimacy, need to be codified within a single document.
1:07.0	The second reason I think for codifying constitution is to patch over various holes which were exposed by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
1:16.0	So over the years he has tried to shut down parliament illegally.
1:20.0	The Supreme Court thankfully reversed that.
1:22.0	That was in 2019. This year he threatened to call an early general
1:25.7	election in order to save his own skin. Thankfully he didn't do that as well. But he really exposed
1:30.9	the sort of creaky underpinnings of our Constitution.
1:34.0	So for these reasons, and to help bring Britain together in a sort of positive act of
1:38.0	self-creation where we finally have a document fit for the 21st century. I think the United Kingdom needs to
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