Richard V Reeves

"On this week's On the Media, what the data says about how boys and men are struggling today. Plus, the history behind Ticketmaster's dominance in the live music industry, and how Hollywood trust-busting in the 1930s and 1940s unleashed an era of indie films. 1. Richard Reeves [], a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and author of the book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, on the research that shows gender disparities growing in a surprising direction. Listen. "

On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Host Brooke Gladstone examines threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week's big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in ever...

Me, on Dr Phil:

✂️ "A positive script for masculinity that is not anti-women" 29 seconds · Clipped by Richard Reeves · Original video "Dr. Phil The Demise of Guys | Andrew Tate | January 27, 2023 (Full Episode) 1080p" by House Of Enter...

This marks the start of my campaign to get more men into K-12 teaching, currently just 24% male down from 33% in the 1980s. (For supporting policy proposals, see Of Boys and Men https://buff.ly/3C6Pv7e )

"Whether or not these are the right answers, he’s asking the right questions. Progressives need to talk about the trouble with men, or the solutions that bubble to the surface may be anything but benign." Thoughtful review from

If I mention the ‘modern male struggle’, do you roll your eyes? It’s time to stop looking away | Gaby Hinsliff Progressives should take these problems seriously, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

A snippet from the book. https://t.co/AIma3Zrn8W

The framers were not intent on founding a Christian nation, says Tracy McKenzie - and Christians should give up the futile historical task of trying to prove otherwise. Franklin couldn't even get them to say a prayer together! Learn more in his book, & on the pod:
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"The main reason we find it difficult to think critically about democracy is that it requires us to think critically about ourselves." That's the view of my guest today, Robert Tracy McKenzie, a historian at Wheaton College. In his recent book We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy , he argues that Americans - and American Christians in particular have forgotten what the framers always knew: that human beings are flawed, broken, inclined towards sin - in other words, fallen. He contrasts this view of fallen humanity with what he calls the "democratic gospel", based on the "comforting fiction that we are naturally good". In this conversation we discuss the development of the idea that "America is great because America is good" (which Tocqueville never actually said); argue about the extent to which democracy is intrinsically good, or mostly good as means to other ends; discuss the balance between two different Christian anthropologies, one positive one negative; the use and misuse of history by political partisans; and the need for religious people, in particular, to take history more seriously. He's an interesting thinker, a terrific writer and this was a fun conversation.
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‎Dialogues with Richard Reeves: Robert Tracy McKenzie on democracy for sinners on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Dialogues with Richard Reeves, Ep Robert Tracy McKenzie on democracy for sinners - May 30, 2022

There's a lot of bad news around, so wanted to share some good: "Global benevolence, as measured by the average of the three measures of prosocial behaviour, has increased remarkably in 2021, up by almost 25% of its pre-pandemic level" https://buff.ly/3uGwmnG

For your weekend podcasting pleasure, I humbly recommend my dialogue with Yascha Mounk on the unique challenge & promise of diverse democracies.
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Yascha Mounk on race, democracy and liberal patriotism Listen to this episode from Dialogues with Richard Reeves on Spotify. Diverse democracies are new, wonderful, but potentially fragile: that's the claim, the promise and the warning from my guest today, Yascha Mounk. Yascha wears many hats. He is a Professor at Johns Hopkins, the Founder of Persuasio...

The overemphasis on race and personal identity - from both the political left and right - is a clear and present danger to diverse democracies, says . Listen to our dialogue:

Why is Federalist 10 so important to the success of diverse democracies? The best person to answer that question is.... . Listen to our podcast dialogue:
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Yascha Mounk on race, democracy and liberal patriotism Listen to this episode from Dialogues with Richard Reeves on Spotify. Diverse democracies are new, wonderful, but potentially fragile: that's the claim, the promise and the warning from my guest today, Yascha Mounk. Yascha wears many hats. He is a Professor at Johns Hopkins, the Founder of Persuasio...

Diverse democracies are new, wonderful, but potentially fragile: that's the claim, the promise and the warning from my latest podcast guest, Yascha Mounk. Yascha wears many hats. He is a Professor at Johns Hopkins, the Founder of Persuasion, a publication and community devoted to the maintenance of a liberal society, and host an excellent podcast, The Good Fight. Also a political scientist and historian with four books to his name, most recently The Great Experiment - Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, which is the main topic of our conversation today.

We talk about the dangers of tribalism and majority domination in diverse democracies; the difference between a liberal society and a democratic society (and which is more important), the intrinsic "groupiness" of human beings and how that means liberals need to be in the business of drawing lines between groups (whether they like it or not), what the communitarian critics of liberalism get wrong, the wonderful messiness of liberal societies, Federalist 10, and the risks of an overemphasis on racial or ethnic identity, or "racecraft", which is an increasingly dominant trend on both the political right and the political left.

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Yascha Mounk on race, democracy and liberal patriotism Listen to this episode from Dialogues with Richard Reeves on Spotify. Diverse democracies are new, wonderful, but potentially fragile: that's the claim, the promise and the warning from my guest today, Yascha Mounk. Yascha wears many hats. He is a Professor at Johns Hopkins, the Founder of Persuasio...