When we think of the fight for gender equality, more often than not it’s framed in terms of the unequal, often violent, treatment suffered by women and girls.
In many, many places, that is very much still the case – but in the West the ‘battle of the sexes’ is not as clear cut as it once was. Though there are certainly a host of challenges facing women and girls, it’s also the case that – in the US in particular – the social and economic life of men has been turned upside down. Men are losing ground in the labour market, falling behind in education and increasingly missing out on family life – for Black men in particular, these problems are even more acute.
In his new book ‘Of Boys and Men’, the writer and policy expert Richard Reeves takes on these issues head-on and suggests some perhaps surprising solutions.
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One doesn’t like to be a disappointment to one’s parents. But in (at least) one crucial regard, I’ve let my dad down. He is a steam train enthusiast, and I’ve never shown a blind bit of interest. So it was more with filial duty than pleasure that I took the old man to the Didcot […]
How do you know this wasn’t written by an AI? If you’re reading CapX, you are presumably interested in free speech, critical thinking and originality. So you should care that what you’re reading was written by a person with a mind. But public life is becoming colonised with ‘copy’ generated by AI. It’s become so […]
Last week, the Community Security Trust’s (CST) report covering incidents between January and June 2026 showed alarming results. The unprecedented wave of antisemitism that started on October 7, 2023, when Hamas massacred and kidnapped over 1,200 people in Israel, shows no sign of easing. On the contrary. The 1,926 incidents recorded represent a 21% rise […]
