What Did Men Do to Deserve This?

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'In recent years, Galloway has also become a leading evangelist for a notion that rapidly solidified into conventional wisdom: America’s young men are in crisis. “Seldom in recent memory has there been a cohort that’s fallen farther, faster,” he writes in his new book, “Notes on Being a Man.” To make his case, Galloway pulls from a heavily circulated set of statistics. At colleges and universities nationwide, female students outnumber males by about three to two. Among young adults, men are more likely than women to live with their parents; by their mid-thirties, more than fifteen per cent of men still live with their folks, compared to less than nine per cent of women. Men die by suicide at about three and a half times the rate that women do. Men’s real wages are lower for the tenth and fiftieth percentiles of earners than they were in 1979. Currently, the unemployment rate among young men with bachelor’s degrees between the ages of twenty-three and thirty is close to double that of their female peers.

These numbers have roused bipartisan concern. In March, Governor Gavin Newsom, of California, on the début episode of his new podcast, welcomed the conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who lamented Gen Z as the “most alcohol-addicted, most drug-addicted, most suicidal, most depressed, most medicated generation in history.” And these under-thirties, Kirk said, were receiving a pernicious message: “You’re not going to have the same American Dream that your parents would have.” He and his fellow conservative organizers “saw this as an opportunity,” he added, “especially with young men.” Donald Trump won men under age thirty by fifty-six per cent in the 2024 election, up fifteen points from 2020. For these gains, Kirk credited the coalescing electoral power of the right-leaning constellation of podcasters and streamers known as the manosphere, which encompasses libertarian bros, evangelical Christians, and white nationalists.'