Of Boys and Men

“Yeah, he wrote a book called Boys and Men.”

“Do you know Richard Reeves? He does the American Institute for Boys and Men policy. I have heard of it. I don't Yeah, he wrote of boys and men.”

“I had a conversation with Richard rebs sat here um Richard oh my gosh yes of boys and men yeah so he's great American Institute of boys and men”

“another lesson one of my favorite ones this was from Richard Reeves great author wrote the book of boys and men and came back on the show for the second time this year”

“yeah one of the interesting stats I learned from Richard Reeves last year with his book of boys and men was that seven times more males than females dropped out of college during covet and you know you've got this massive Retreat this huge imbalance”

“so first one um Richard Reeves book of boys and men were you familiar with that did you get to read that last year I don't think I I've read that you would it's very short super short read only about 150 200 pages”

“Richard Reeves who wrote a book called of boys and men he's a policy wonk type guy from Washington DC but wrote a phenomenal book it's very short you you'd really enjoy it it's called of boys and men”

“did you read Richard Reeves of boys and men which came out last year I've heard of it but I have not read it short book easy read highly recommended”

“this is in Richard Reeves book of boys and men which came out this year which it sounds like you're familiar with”

“I know that you spoke to Richard Reeves a little while ago yeah and uh Richard was recently on the show and I absolutely adored his approach structural problems for of boys and men”

“so I had Richard Reeves on the show recently of boys and men brand new book which is out and it's really interesting”

“disaffected only men that feel like um Society kind of doesn't want to talk to them anymore because they're toxic or they're horrible or they're abusers or they're rapists or you know it's an interesting blend of cultural and structural problems of this guy in the show called Richard Reeves he's written a book called of boys and men and”

“Uh I thought some parenting books generally that I thought people would love if you were struck by The Road as a kind of a a parenting book, Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves about the sort of male uh crisis...”

“i really liked uh my guest today's amazing book of boys and men uh why the modern male is struggling why it matters and what to do about it by richard reeves he also wrote a great book called dream hoarders”

“uh so i'll leave you this wonderful episode and check out of boys and why the modern male is struggling and why it matters and what you can do about it at the painted porch or anywhere books are sold”

“there's a great book um last name is Reeves re VES and it's called of boys and men and it's probably the most important read of the last year for me”

“I know Richard Reeves ­talks about this quite a bit phenomenal book of boys and men where you can see ­just the levels of unemployment”

“last year I interviewed Richard Reeves about his book of boys and men about what has happened to men in America why they've fallen so far behind and what we should think about it what we can do about it”

“and this is a point you make in the book which I think is a little counterintuitive because there's a way of coding this conversation as an almost backlashing conversation”

“that's the argument of Richard Reeves new book of boys and men”

“so I want to have reads on the show to take a closer look at these numbers”

“and something your book gets at very clearly is that this is very much an intersectional argument”

“I just actually wrote a piece on Richard Reeves, you know, has written this great book actually of of boys and men here. And the one I think big problem I had with the book is he kind of argues at the end that we've got to figure out a new way to do fatherhood apart from marriage.”

“I just actually wrote a piece on Richard Reeves, you know, has written this great book actually of of boys and men here.”

“That is as Richard Reeves has shown, he wrote the book of Boys and Men.”

“Well, so the boy's story is different from the girl story and it's a story of checking out of the real world and I draw from this in part on Richard Reeves who's a wonderful book of boys and men. He points out that you know boys and men used to dominate the economy and society in many ways.”

“and I've heard in your work the work that was in your book I think on page 45 you say that there is a male friendship recession”

“and I tell you that you've got to solve the issues you talk about in this book of boys and men why the modern male is struggling why it matters and what to do about it”

“so let's start with Ursula Le Guin the dispossessed the other books will be Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels and Richard V Reeves of boys and men”

“our final book Richard V Reeves of boys and men you should do you should do an overview of what this book is about”

“This is in Richard Reeves book of boys and men which came out this year which it sounds like you're familiar with”

“Wrote the book of Boys and Men.”

“I think I think that that's a subtitle of boys and men boys and men”

“so your book of boys and men was chosen by President Obama to be on his summer reading list always was that Lake well the honest answer is I was thought where were you last last year President Obama um because the book came out in 2022 but it made it to his list in 2024”

“so I'm paring Richard Reeves great work of boys to men there's a lot of reasons”

“like listen to Richard Reeves now who has written I think a very good book on the problems men are facing and and he's saying you know we need to get more male nurses we need to get more male teachers”

“did you read Richard Reeves of boys and men which came out last year I've heard of it but I have not read it short book easy read highly recommended very pertinent to what you do”