Young men think the world is fucked but they’ll somehow be fine

Are young men secretly optimistic about the American Dream while believing everything is falling apart? In this election special, I sit down with returning guest Charlie Sabgir from the Young Men Research Project to unpack a massive new survey of 1,000 young men (ages 18–29) and 500 young women — and the findings are all over the place.

There’s nostalgia for a past that probably never existed, a hardening of traditional gender roles, a grift economy that’s absolutely eating young men alive, and a genuinely surprising streak of “I’ll be fine though” individual optimism. Plus: what the Cornell Seven case reveals about the staying power of Me Too (or lack thereof), and a brand-new survey of Gen Alpha boys (12–17) that is honestly pretty eye-opening. Wondering what all of this means for the coalition about to show up at the polls? Tune in to find out.

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