Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Man Park, cooed the Saturday Night Live narrator.

It's like a dog park for guys so they can make friends and have an outlet besides their girlfriend and wives.

Well, that sketch was from about a year ago, but it points to an

unfortunate reality that men really are in this culture in crisis, struggling with a loss of purpose,

a loss of relationship, and a loss of a sense of usefulness. A January 2021 report from the Institute

for Family Studies noted that, quote, girls are outperforming boys at every level from elementary school

through graduate school. Now, that's not primarily because girls are somehow succeeding or

overachieving. It's because, as Andrew Yang with the Washington Post wrote, quote, boys and men

across all regions and ethnic groups have been failing, both absolutely and relatively, for years.

Since the 1990s, fatherlessness has soared. Median earnings for men have declined.

Boys now represent 70% of all the Ds and Fs that are given at at school.

They're about twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.

They spend time in juvenile detention at a rate of over five times that of girls.

And there will be, on average, two women who graduate from college for every one man over

the next five years.

NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway recently noted on Bill Maher's show real-time, quote,

the most unstable nations in the world have one thing in common, too many lonely broken men.

And yet, that's exactly the type of male that modern culture tends to produce.

And this corresponds with a dramatic crisis in terms of sociability.

As Andrew Yang noted, quote, roughly one-third of men are either unemployed or

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