by Grant Bailey (@grantjbailey) and Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS)
American men are in trouble. From Richard Reeves’ Of Boys and Men to Nicholas Eberstadt’s Men Without Work, we have learned that men are opting out of our most important institutions—work, education and family—in record numbers. But what or who is to blame for this male malaise?
Uncle Sam.
This was Allysia Finley’s thesis, writing about men’s growing disconnect from work in a recent Wall Street Journal article: “Blame government, which showers benefits on able-bodied people who don’t work,” Finley wrote.
