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The Man They Wanted Me to Be Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making

Jared Yates Sexton

This provocative, “critically important” memoir of working-class boyhood in rural Indiana offers a searing cultural analysis of toxic masculinity in American culture (NPR). As progressivism changes American society, and globalism shifts labor away from traditional manufacturing, the roles that have...

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

Saagar mentioned Richard Reeves' work on the topic of how boys and men are in crisis across America and the broader west, in the context of discussing Liver King and the reasons for his popularity.

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In my opinion, we should look at the Liver King story as a very cautionary tale, [...], as Richard Reeves laid out so eloquently on our show before, boys and men are in crisis across America and in th...

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Saagar mentioned Richard Reeves' work on the topic of how boys and men are in crisis across America and the broader west, in the context of discussing Liver King and the reasons for his popularity.

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In my opinion, we should look at the Liver King story as a very cautionary tale, [...], as Richard Reeves laid out so eloquently on our show before, boys and men are in crisis across America and in the broader west, their attraction to people like Liver King is a cry for help that we must and need to fill, otherwise there will just be another person to take his place.

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