American boys and men are facing growing challenges in school, in the labor force, and in our culture. Richard Reeves, author of Of Boys and Men, documents those challenges and the steps it will take to solve them — which include a new cultural script for masculinity.
Many of our cultural spaces are suspicious of masculinity itself; others celebrate only that masculinity which conforms to the traditional model of strength and dominance. This episode proposes that a powerful new script would be one that celebrates the desire for strength as it is used in service to others.
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