In his urgently needed new book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (Brookings Institution Press; September 27, 2022), Brookings Institution scholar and father of three sons Richard V. Reeves examines this crisis and argues that helping our boys and men does not mean abandoning the ideal of gender equality. “We can hold two thoughts in our head at once. We can be passionate about women’s rights and compassionate toward vulnerable boys and men,” Reeves contends.
Join Richard Reeves, Prof. Harvey Mansfield, and Ian Corbin for a panel discussion of masculinity, manliness, and what we can do to help boys and men better flourish today.
Friday, October 28th 4:00 PM
Harvard College, CGIS South Tsai Auditorium
Panelists:
Richard V. Reeves
Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Future of the Middle Class Initiative and co-directs the Center on Children and Families. His Brookings research focuses on the middle class, inequality and social mobility.
Richard writes for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, Guardian, National Affairs, The Atlantic, Democracy Journal, and Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Dream Hoarders (Brookings Institution Press, 2017), and John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic Books, 2007), an intellectual biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician.
Prof. Harvey Mansfield
Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, studies and teaches political philosophy. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism, in favor of a Constitutional American political science, and manliness ranging from vulgar aggression, to assertive manliness, to manliness as virtue, and to philosophical manliness. He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and has translated three books of Machiavelli’s and (with the aid of his wife) Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
Ian Marcus Corbin
Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher, research fellow in neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, and a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita. He is a research affiliate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He has studied politics, religion and philosophy at Gordon College, Oxford University, Yale University and Boston College, with an eye to the ways that deep human values function in the formation and evolution of human communities. At HMS he studies intersubjectivity, cognition and human flourishing. He is writing a book on belonging and world-making for Yale University Press.
Moderator:
Erika Bachiochi, JD
Erika Bachiochi is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. A graduate of Middlebury College, Erika was a Bradley Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Politics at Boston College, received her law degree from Boston University School of Law, and spent a year as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. Her latest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision is now out Notre Dame University Press. She is the Director of the Wollstonecraft Project at AAI.
