Democrats and Republicans Are Living in Different Worlds

Competing partisan views on how we see men and masculinity are emerging as key factors in the run-up to the 2024 election.

Two books published last year, very different in tone — Senator Josh Hawley’s “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs” and Richard Reeves’s “Of Boys and Men” — have focused public attention on this debate.

Hawley approached the subject from a decidedly conservative point of view.

“No menace to this nation is greater than the collapse of American manhood,” he declared, placing full blame “on the American left. In fact they have helped drive it. In power centers they control, places like the press, the academy and politics, they blame masculinity for America’s woes.”