Podcast appearances and mentions of Nicholas Eberstadt

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A special episode while the show is away today, but this is all new content! Peachy Keenan, author of Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War joins Stigall to discuss the secret life of women leading traditional lives as worshipers, mothers, and wives as their priority while the world of secular women turns increasingly hostile to it. What's going on? Then, while young men are trending more conservative - many able-bodied men ages 20-40 are sitting out of the work force, working part time - if at all and collecting welfare checks. What's happened to the dignity of work with men? Nicholas Eberstadt, author of "Men Without Work" explains what's happening. A the brilliant historian Anton Chaitkin walks us through some history of our nation in his new book "Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress." Hope you have a blessed day and remember those great Americans who gave their lives to protect podcasts and speech like this. -For more info visit the official website: https://chrisstigall.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisstigallshow/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisStigallFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.stigall/Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/StigallPodListen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/StigallShow-Help protect your wealth with real, physical gold and silver. Texas Bullion Exchange helps everyday Americans diversify with tailored portfolios, IRA rollovers, and expert support every step of the way.

For the first time in modern British history, young men are now more likely than young women to be out of education, employment or training. It's a trend mirrored across the Atlantic — and it raises a stark question: are boys and men being left behind? In this special edition, we bring you a timely conversation exploring the data, the causes, and the political consequences of male economic decline.Richard Reeves, President of the American Institute for Boys and Men and author of ‘Of Boys and Men', joins leading demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, author of ‘Men Without Work', in a conversation chaired by The Times columnist Fraser Nelson — recorded live with the Centre for Policy Studies in London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nicholas Eberstadt will describe the current collapse in the global birth rate and what the implications are for business, housing, and warfare. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Over the past century, the world's population has exploded—surging from around one and a half billion people in 1900 to roughly eight billion today. But according to the political economist Nicholas Eberstadt, that chapter of human history is over, and a new era, which he calls the age of depopulation, has begun.  Eberstadt is the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and has written extensively on demographics, economic development, and international security. In a recent essay for Foreign Affairs, Eberstadt argued that plummeting fertility rates everywhere from the United States and Europe to India and China point to a new demographic order—one that will transform societies, economies, and geopolitics. Eberstadt spoke with senior editor Kanishk Tharoor about what is driving today's population decline, why policy cannot reverse it, and how governments can reckon with a shrinking world. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview.

This week at Lean Out, we continue our podcast series on the challenges facing modern men, from declining educational achievement to rising suicides and overdoses. We're happy to bring you an encore presentation of an interview from 2022, with a political economist who says prime, working age men in America are facing Great Depression-era levels of joblessness. The collapse of work — today on Lean Out.Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He's also the author of Men Without Work.This podcast series is dedicated to Marc Antione Jubinville. May he rest in peace.You can find Tara Henley on Twitter at @TaraRHenley, and on Substack at tarahenley.substack.com

For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the world is heading towards an era of depopulation. And for the first time in human history, this era of depopulation will be by choice. All over the world, women are choosing to have fewer and fewer children even as medical advances continue to […]

For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the world is heading towards an era of depopulation. And for the first time in human history, this era of depopulation will be by choice. All over the world, women are choosing to have fewer and fewer children even as medical advances continue to prolong life. The result will be that people born today will live in graying societies in which the elderly and retired vastly outnumber the young and employed who are critical in supporting older generations. Why are people around the world choosing to have fewer children? And what do graying societies mean for the global economy? Nicholas Eberstadt is the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute where he researched demographics, economic development, and international security in the Korean peninsula and Asia. He is also a senior advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research, a founding board member of the US Committee on Human Rights in North Korea, and has served as a consultant or adviser to the US Government and international organizations. His most recent book is the Post-Pandemic Edition of Men Without Work (Templeton, 2022).Read the transcript here. Read Eberstadt's Foreign Affairs article here. Subscribe to our substack here.

For years, we worried about overpopulation, but the reality is now there aren't enough babies being born to replace a greying population across the globe. Nicholas Eberstadt is Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss depopulation occurring on five continents, why pro-natal programs cost a lot but aren't seeing results, and what this means for how we measure economic growth in the future. His article “The Age of Depopulation” was published in Foreign Affairs.  

Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, joins the show to discuss the North Korean regime and the geopolitical impact of its decision to send troops to support Russia in Ukraine. ▪️ Times      •      01:36 Introduction      •      01:49 Finding North Korea     •      04:00 The Sung dynasty     •     09:24 Beijing and Moscow     •      14:43 Kim Jong Il     •      22:14 Mackinder's World-Island     •      26:29 Interconnected      •      33:18 Why commit to Russia?      •      36:55 Limited imaginations       •      39:03 New differences Follow along  on Instagram Find a transcript of today's episode on our School of War Substack

Watch here: https://youtu.be/C45cbnu3Q1k  All our links: https://linktr.ee/centreforindependentstudies In this eye-opening interview, Robert Forsyth sits down with Nicholas Eberstadt, a leading expert on North Korea and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to dissect the origins and implications of North Korea's unique family dictatorship. The conversation delves into how the Kim dynasty has maintained an iron grip on the country through a blend of political strategy and cult of personality. What are the roots of North Korea's dynastic rule? How has the regime's approach influenced its domestic and international policies? Robert and Nicholas explore these questions and provide an in-depth analysis of how the Kim family's authoritarian control has shaped North Korean society and its interactions with the world. #northkorea #libertarian #democracy #history

Preview: Comment by author Nicholas Eberstadt, Men Without Work, that men without high school degrees do not explain the missing -- that foreign-born without degrees have solid participation. Another filter less than revelatory. 1909 Chicago

Preview: YELLOW LIGHT: Comment by author Nicholas Eberstadt, Men Without Work, that the low labor participation rate may reflect new groups moving out of jobs, such as the Boomers and a "yellow light" on women of working age withdrawing. 1941 Jobless

Preview: Comment by author Nicholas Eberstadt, Men Without Work, that official job statistics are based on assumptions many (8) decades out of date. More later in the next days. 1829 Five Points

Preview: Comment by author Nicholas Eberstadt, Men Without Work, that the misery deepens for the jobless males, and this was before the mental health inadequacy that drives, we are told, the surging homelessness in big cities without adequate mental health services. Even before the migrants. 188 Five Points, NYC

Hour 3 for 8/19/24 Nicholas Eberstadt of AEI joined Drew to discuss VP Harris' economic proposals and demographics (6:55). Callers including a reformed felon (22:17) and a former econ professor (24:17) shared their thoughts. Then, Ed Morrissey of Hotair.com gave us a preview of the DNC (31:37) and if we should believe Harris' rise in the polls (42:23). 

Originally Recorded May 30th, 2024 About Nicholas Eberstadt: https://www.aei.org/profile/nicholas-eberstadt/ Check out Nicholas's article in National Affairs, titled The Future of Global Population: https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-future-of-global-population This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit musicallyspeaking.substack.com

While the official unemployment rate remains at a low 3.9%, there is an epidemic in the US and other Western countries of men -- and now increasingly women -- without work. These are millions of otherwise able-bodied working age adults who have given up on finding work, often driven to do so out of frustration and despair. It's gotten to the point where 1 in 6 prime working age men has no paid work at all. What is causing this? And what can be done about it? Because when an increasing percentage of your prime working age population stops contributing to economic productivity, not only do they suffer the consequences of diminished prosperity -- we all do. For a deep dive into this pressing crisis, we're fortunate to speak today with Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the book Men Without Work. Get Nicholas' book here: https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Americas-Invisible/dp/1599474697 Follow Nicholas at https://aei.org/ WORRIED ABOUT THE MARKET? SCHEDULE YOUR FREE PORTFOLIO REVIEW with Thoughtful Money's endorsed financial advisors at https://www.thoughtfulmoney.com #unemployment #jobs #depression

UNSOLVED MISSING MEN: 1/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.” 1936 NYC

UNSOLVED MISSING MEN: 1/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.” 1936 NYC

UNSOLVED MISSING MEN: 3/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.” 1915 Breadline NYC

UNSOLVED MISSING MEN: 4/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.” 1936 Garment District

PREVIEW:: #Post-Pandemic:  Excerpt from a conversation with author Nicholas Eberstadt re his work, MEN WITHOUT WORK, seeking the explanation for why "six million American men in prime working age are neither working nor looking for work."  More detais later tonight. 1923 Detroit Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).

March 6, 2024 - Join us for this conversation about prospects for Korean Unification with Jeongmin Kim, Lead Correspondent at NK News / Editorial Director at Korea Pro, Dr. Lee Sang-shin, director of the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy at Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU), and Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), in conversation with Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado. This panel will explore recent policy shifts towards unification in South Korea under the Yoon Suk Yeol administration and in North Korea announced by Chairman Kim Jong Un at the ninth plenary meeting of the eighth central committee of the ruling Workers' Party. What are the consequences of Kim's announcement that North Korea's long standing policy goal of unification (one nation, two systems) will be dropped? The expert panel will also discuss changing public opinion in South Korea, including demographic and ideological splits in policy preferences for the future of the Korean Peninsula. Plus, in addition to discussing the well-understood challenges and obstacles to practically embarking on a process of unification, the panel will cover some of the potential benefits of Unification, including demographic, sociocultural, geopolitical, and economic factors. The promotional partner for this program is Columbia University's APEC Study Center. For more information, please visit the link below: https://koreasociety.org/policy-and-corporate-programs/item/1780-korean-unification-a-fading-prospect

Jamie is joined by Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist at the American Enterprise Institute, to explain the recent fear that North Korea is preparing for war. The Agenda: —The ideological shift in North Korea —Shifting American policy —China's power over North Korea —Giving Kim Jong-un credit —North Korea's prognosis —Where will we be in 25 years? Show Notes: —38 North: Is Kim Jong Un Preparing for War? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America has been a notably hard-working society for most of its history—but has become much less so in recent decades. Labor-force participation, especially among men of prime working age, has fallen to levels not seen since the Great Depression and is particularly low in certain regions of the Middle West and South. The decline of work has coincided with declining health status and longevity and high levels of drug addiction.Policy analysts and political leaders have offered widely differing explanations for these discouraging trends, from trade policies and globalization to welfare policies, cultural upheavals, and regulatory suppression of economic opportunities. Their ideas for reversing course have important implications not only for national social and economic welfare, but also for partisan politics, as working-class Americans have been shifting significantly from their traditional home in the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.Join us to learn more about this critical topic as Heritage's Christopher DeMuth moderates a conversation with Oren Cass (author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America), Nicholas Eberstadt (author of Men Without Work), Iain Murray (author of The Socialist Temptation), and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (author of Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dennis Prager Discusses the Article by Bret Stephens: The case for Trump … by someone who wants him to lose Dennis Prager Podcasts MLK Day  Jan 15 2024   Other Episodes Martin Luther King deserves his own special holiday. But so do George Washington and Abraham Lincoln… Bret Stephens, a full-on Trump despiser, makes (to his great credit) an excellent case as to why so many Americans find the former president to be such an attractive candidate… The world of the left is the world of lies. Dennis continues with his deconstruction of Brett Stephens' brave NY Times column explaining Trump's appeal to at least half of America. Dennis talks to Jeff Barke, MD. Internal Medicine doctor in Newport Beach, CA. His new book is Morning Message - Dispelling the Myths You've Been Told about Optimal Health.  Thanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager Podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show as a podcast, commercial-free every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You'll also get access to 15 years' worth of archives, as well as daily show prep. Subscribe today at Pragertopia dot com.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------   Article mentioned- Bret Stephens: The case for Trump … by someone who wants him to lose By Bret Stephens The New York Times. Jan 14, 2024   Barring a political miracle or an act of God, it is overwhelmingly likely that Donald Trump will again be the Republican Party's nominee for president. Assuming the Democratic nominee in the fall is Joe Biden, polls show Trump with a better-than-even chance of returning to the White House next year. Lord help us. What should those of us who have consistently opposed him do? You can't defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable. Too many people, especially progressives, fail to think deeply about the enduring sources of his appeal — and to do so without calling him names, or disparaging his supporters, or attributing his resurgence to nefarious foreign actors or the unfairness of the Electoral College. Since I will spend the coming year strenuously opposing his candidacy, let me here make the best case for Trump that I can. Begin with fundamentals. Trump got three big things right — or at least more right than wrong. Arguably the single most important geopolitical fact of the century is the mass migration of people from south to north and east to west, causing tectonic demographic, cultural, economic and ultimately political shifts. Trump understood this from the start of his presidential candidacy in 2015, the same year Europe was overwhelmed by a largely uncontrolled migration from the Middle East and Africa. As he said the following year, “A nation without borders is not a nation at all. We must have a wall. The rule of law matters!” Many of Trump's opponents refuse to see virtually unchecked migration as a problem for the West at all. Some of them see it as an opportunity to demonstrate their humanitarianism. Others look at it as an inexhaustible source of cheap labor. They also have the habit of denouncing those who disagree with them as racists. But enforcing control at the border — whether through a wall, a fence or some other mechanism — isn't racism. It's a basic requirement of statehood and peoplehood, which any nation has an obligation to protect and cherish. Only now, as the consequences of Biden's lackadaisical approach to mass migration have become depressingly obvious on the sidewalks and in the shelters and public schools of liberal cities like New York and Chicago, are Trump's opponents on this issue beginning to see the point. Public services paid by taxes exist for people who live here, not just anyone who makes his way into the country by violating its laws. A job market is structured by rules and regulations, not just an endless supply of desperate laborers prepared to work longer for less. A national culture is sustained by common memories, ideals, laws and a language — which newcomers should honor, adopt and learn as a requirement of entry. It isn't just a giant arrival gate for anyone and everyone who wants to take advantage of America's abundance and generosity. It said something about the self-deluded state of Western politics when Trump came on the scene that his assertion of the obvious was treated as a moral scandal, at least by the stratum of society that had the least to lose from mass migration. To millions of other Americans, his message, however crudely he may have expressed it, sounded like plain common sense. The second big thing Trump got right was about the broad direction of the country. Trump rode a wave of pessimism to the White House — pessimism his detractors did not share because he was speaking about, and to, an America they either didn't see or understood only as a caricature. But just as with this year, when liberal elites insist that things are going well while overwhelming majorities of Americans say they are not, Trump's unflattering view captured the mood of the country. In 2017, demographer Nicholas Eberstadt joined this pessimistic perception with comprehensive data in an influential essay for Commentary. He noted persistently sluggish economic growth and a plunging labor force participation rate that had never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis. There was a rising death rate among middle-aged white people and declining life expectancy at birth, in part because of sharply rising deaths from suicide, alcoholism or drug addiction. More than 12% of all adult males had a felony conviction on their record, leaving them in the shadowlands of American life. And there was a palpable sense of economic decline, with fewer and fewer younger Americans having any hope of matching their parents' incomes at the same stages of life. Far too little has changed since then. Labor force participation remains essentially where it was in the last days of the Obama administration. Deaths of despair keep rising. The cost of living has risen sharply, and while the price of ordinary goods may finally be coming down, rents haven't. Only 36% of voters think the American dream still holds true, according to a recent survey, down from 48% in 2016. If anything, Trump's thesis may be truer today than it was the first time he ran on it. Finally, there's the question of institutions that are supposed to represent impartial expertise, from elite universities and media to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI. Trump's detractors, including me, often argued that his demagoguery and mendacity did a lot to needlessly diminish trust in these vital institutions. But we should be more honest with ourselves and admit that those institutions did their own work in squandering, through partisanship or incompetence, the esteem in which they had once been widely held. How so? Much of the elite media, mostly liberal, became openly partisan in the 2016 election — and, in doing so, not only failed to understand why Trump won but also probably unwittingly contributed to his victory. Academia, also mostly liberal, became increasingly illiberal, inhospitable not just to conservatives but to anyone pushing back even modestly against progressive orthodoxy. The FBI abused its authority with dubious investigations and salacious leaks that led to sensational headlines but not criminal prosecutions, much less convictions. The CDC and other public health bureaucracies flubbed the pandemic reaction, with (mostly) good intentions but frequently devastating consequences: “If you're a public health person and you're trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that is something that will save a life,” former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins acknowledged last month. “You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people's lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way they never quite recovered.” Trump and his supporters called all this out. For this, they were called idiots, liars and bigots by people who think of themselves as enlightened and empathetic and hold the commanding heights in the national culture. The scorn only served to harden the sense among millions of Americans that liberal elites are self-infatuated, imperious, hysterical and hopelessly out of touch — or, to use one of Trump's favorite words, “disgusting.” A few readers might nod their heads in (partial) agreement. Then they'll ask: What about the election denialism? What about Jan. 6? What about the threat Trump poses to the very foundations of our democracy? All disqualifying — in my view. But it's also important to stretch one's mind a little and try to understand why so many voters are unimpressed about the “end of democracy” argument. For one thing, haven't they heard it before — and with the same apocalyptic intensity? In 2016, Trump was frequently compared to Benito Mussolini and other dictators (including by me). The comparison might have proved more persuasive if Trump's presidency had been replete with jailed and assassinated political opponents, rigged or canceled elections, a muzzled or captured press — and Trump still holding office today, rather than running to get his old job back. The election denialism is surely ugly, but it isn't quite unique: Prominent Democrats also denied the legitimacy of George W. Bush's two elections — the second one no less than the first. Many rank-and-file Republicans regard the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol as a disgrace and the lowest point of Trump's presidency. But they also believe that it wasn't so much an insurrection as it was an ugly temper tantrum by Trump and his most rabid supporters that never had a chance of succeeding. One reason for that is that the judges Trump appointed to the federal bench and the Supreme Court rebuffed his legal efforts — and he had no choice but to accept the rulings. An American version of Vladimir Putin he simply is not. That's why warnings from Biden and others about the risk Trump poses to democracy are likely to fall flat even with many moderate voters. If there's any serious threat to democracy, doesn't it also come from Democratic judges and state officials who are using never-before-used legal theories — which even liberal law professors like Harvard's Lawrence Lessig regard as dangerous and absurd — to try to kick Trump's name off ballots in Maine and Colorado? When liberal partisans try to suppress democracy in the name of saving democracy, they aren't helping their cause politically or legally. They are merely confirming the worst stereotypes about their own hypocrisy. As it is, the 2024 election will not hinge on questions of democracy but of delivery: Which candidate will do more for voters? That will turn on perceptions of which candidate did more for voters when they were in office. Biden's supporters are convinced that the president has a good story to tell. But they also think that Trump has no story at all — only a pack of self-aggrandizing lies. That's liberal self-delusion. Excluding the pandemic, a once-in-a-century event that would have knocked almost any sitting president sideways, Americans have reasons to remember the Trump years as good ones — and good in a way that completely defied expert predictions of doom. Wages outpaced inflation, something they have just begun to do under Biden, according to an analysis by Bankrate. Unemployment fell to 50-year lows (as it has been under Biden); stocks boomed; inflation and interest rates were low. He appealed to Americans who operated in the economy of things — builders, manufacturers, energy producers, food services and the like — rather than in the economy of words — lawyers, academics, journalists, civil servants. And he shared the law-and-order instincts of normal Americans, including respect for the police, something the left seemed to care about on Jan. 6 but was notably less concerned about during the months of rioting, violence and semi-anarchy that followed George Floyd's murder. As for foreign policy, it's worth asking: Does the world feel safer under Biden — with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Hamas' and Hezbollah's assault on Israel, Houthi attacks on shipping in international waters, the Chinese open threat to invade Taiwan — than it did under Trump? Trump may have generated a lot of noise, but his crazy talk and air of unpredictability seemed to keep America's adversaries on their guard and off balance in a way that Biden's instinctive caution and feeble manner simply does not. Ordinary voters care typically about results. What many care less about is Trump's purported offensiveness. It's at least worth asking whether his occasional Archie Bunkerisms are any more obnoxious than the incessant offense-taking, finger-wagging and fake prudishness of his opponents. Many of the same people who seemed to have suffered fainting spells when the notorious “Hollywood Access” tape came to light had, only a few years before, been utterly indifferent to much more serious allegations of sexual assault by Bill Clinton as Arkansas attorney general, governor and later president. You can fault Trump for coarseness, but you can't pretend we don't live in a coarse age. What about the other Republicans in the field? Why aren't they at least preferable to GOP primary voters than Trump, with all of his baggage and bombast? It's a good question. My pet theory is that if Republican voters think the central problem in America today is obnoxious progressives, then how better to spite them than by shoving Trump down their throats for another four years? If somehow Nikki Haley were to win the nomination and then the general election, her victory would be a matter of disappointment for Democrats but not the wailing and gnashing of teeth that went with Trump's victory in 2016. For many Republicans, the visceral satisfaction of liberal anguish at a Trump restoration more than makes up for his flaws. But there's a deeper reason, too — one Trump's opponents ought to consider in thinking about how to beat him. As writers like Tablet's Alana Newhouse have noted, brokenness has become the defining feature of much of American life: broken families, broken public schools, broken small towns and inner cities, broken universities, broken health care, broken media, broken churches, broken borders, broken government. At best, they have become shells of their former selves. And there's a palpable sense that the autopilot that America's institutions and their leaders are on — brain-dead and smug — can't continue. It shouldn't seem strange to Trump's opponents that a man whom we regard as an agent of chaos should be seen by his supporters as precisely the man who can sweep the decks clean. I happen to think that's exactly wrong; you don't mend damaged systems by breaking them even further. Repair and restoration is almost always better than reaction or revolution. But I don't see Trump's opponents making headway against him until they at least acknowledge the legitimacy and power of the fundamental complaint. If you're saying it's “Morning in America” when 77% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track, you're preaching to the wrong choir — and the wrong country. Trump's opponents say this is the most important election of our lifetime. Isn't it time, then, to take our heads out of the sand?   --------------------------------------------------------------------  Visit Pragertopia  https://pragertopia.com/member/signup.php  The first month is 99 cents. 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For Students: http://l.prageru.com/2aozfkP JOIN our Educators Network! http://l.prageru.com/2aoz2y9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Rational Bible: Exodus by Dennis Prager   NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Dennis Prager has put together one of the most stunning commentaries in modern times on the most profound document in human history. It's a must-read that every person, religious and non-religious, should buy and peruse every night before bed. It'll make you think harder, pray more ardently, and understand your civilization better." — Ben Shapiro, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" "Dennis Prager's commentary on Exodus will rank among the greatest modern Torah commentaries. That is how important I think it is. And I am clearly not alone... It might well be on its way to becoming the most widely read Torah commentary of our time—and by non-Jews as well as by Jews." — Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, bestselling author of Jewish Literacy Why do so many people think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated? Why do our friends and neighbors – and sometimes we ourselves – dismiss the Bible as irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible, will demonstrate that the Bible is not only powerfully relevant to today's issues, but completely consistent with rational thought. Do you think the Bible permitted the trans-Atlantic slave trade? You won't after reading this book. Do you struggle to love your parents? If you do, you need this book. Do you doubt the existence of God because belief in God is “irrational?” This book will give you reason after reason to rethink your doubts. The title of this commentary is, “The Rational Bible” because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. As Prager says, “If something I write does not make rational sense, I have not done my job.” The Rational Bible is the fruit of Dennis Prager's forty years of teaching the Bible to people of every faith, and no faith. On virtually every page, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world and to your life. His goal: to change your mind – and then change your life.   Highly Recommended by ACU. Purchase his book at- https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Bible-Exodus-Dennis-Prager/dp/1621577724   The Rational Bible: Genesis by Dennis Prager  USA Today bestseller Publishers Weekly bestseller Wall Street Journal bestseller Many people today think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is not only outdated but irrelevant, irrational, and even immoral. 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This book will cause you to reexamine your doubts. The title of this commentary is The Rational Bible because its approach is entirely reason-based. The listener is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. In Dennis Prager's words, “If something I write is not rational, I have not done my job.” The Rational Bible is the fruit of Prager's forty years of teaching to people of every faith and no faith at all. In virtually every section, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world in general and to you on a personal level. His goal: to change your mind - and, as a result, to change your life.

Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in political economy at the American Enterprise Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how demographic trends in China, Russia, and the United States will shape and constrain global geopolitical competition.   Mentioned on the Podcast   Nicholas Eberstadt, “America Hasn't Lost Its Demographic Advantage,” Foreign Affairs   Nicholas Eberstadt, “Can America Cope with Demographic Decline?,” National Review   Nicholas Eberstadt, “China's Collapsing Birth and Marriage Rates Reflect a People's Deep Pessimism,” Washington Post   Nicholas Eberstadt, Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications   Nicholas Eberstadt, “Russian Power in Decline,” Milken Institute Review   Nicholas Eberstadt, “The China Challenge: A Demographic Predicament Will Plague the Mainland for Decades,” Discourse   Nicholas Eberstadt, “With Great Demographics Comes Great Power,” Foreign Affairs   Nicholas Eberstadt and Ashton Verdery, “A Revolution Is Coming for China's Families,” The Wall Street Journal   Nicholas Eberstadt and Ashton Verdery, “China's Shrinking Families,” Foreign Affairs   For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President's Inbox at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/demography-and-world-power-nicholas-eberstadt 

A prominent narrative claims that global inequality is increasing as improvements in the standard of living accrue mainly to a small elite, leaving much of the world's population behind and even worse off than before. But is this true? Chelsea Follett and Vincent Geloso will discuss their work on a new, more comprehensive way of measuring global inequality, the Inequality of Human Progress Index, and their recent findings showing that global inequality is in fact shrinking. They will argue that the evidence demonstrates that the world is not only better off than many people appreciate but that it is also far more equal. Nicholas Eberstadt will provide comments on how to best assess the true state of global inequality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 3/4: More than 100 million Americans not working or looking for work: 3/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.”

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 4/4: More than 100 million Americans not working or looking for work: 4/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.”

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1/4: More than 100 million Americans not working or looking for work: 1/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.”

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 2/4: More than 100 million Americans not working or looking for work: 2/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.”

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Nicholas Eberstadt is a political economist, demographer, American Enterprise Institute scholar, and an author. More than 7 million prime working age men in America are not looking for work, and each year that number continues to grow. Given that unemployment is at a massive low, why are so many capable men checking out of the workforce and don't intend on coming back? Expect to learn why massive cohorts of men aren't looking for employment, the repercussions of mass joblessness, how these men are able to support themselves, why they spend over 2000 hours a year on screens while smoking weed, the reason you haven't heard about this issue before, what it does to men's mental health, the impact of women being the bread winners and much more... Sponsors: Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get 20% discount on all Keto Brainz products at https://ketobrainz.com/modernwisdom (use code: MW20) and follow them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ketobrainz/ Extra Stuff: Buy Men Without Work - https://amzn.to/3nRIz9k  Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ 

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.”

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 2/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.”

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 3/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.”

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 4/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt's unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.”

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    In a brand new introduction, Eberstadt explains how the government's response to Covid-19 inadvertently exacerbated the flight from work in America. From indiscriminate pandemic shutdowns to almost unconditional “unemployment” benefits, Americans were essentially paid not to work.      Given the devastating economic impact of the Covid calamity and the unforeseen aftershocks yet to come, this reissue of Eberstadt's groundbreaking work is timelier than ever.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 2/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    In a brand new introduction, Eberstadt explains how the government's response to Covid-19 inadvertently exacerbated the flight from work in America. From indiscriminate pandemic shutdowns to almost unconditional “unemployment” benefits, Americans were essentially paid not to work.      Given the devastating economic impact of the Covid calamity and the unforeseen aftershocks yet to come, this reissue of Eberstadt's groundbreaking work is timelier than ever.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1946 @Batchelorshow 3/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    In a brand new introduction, Eberstadt explains how the government's response to Covid-19 inadvertently exacerbated the flight from work in America. From indiscriminate pandemic shutdowns to almost unconditional “unemployment” benefits, Americans were essentially paid not to work.      Given the devastating economic impact of the Covid calamity and the unforeseen aftershocks yet to come, this reissue of Eberstadt's groundbreaking work is timelier than ever.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1929 @Batchelorshow 4/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series)  by  Nicholas Eberstadt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979 Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).    In a brand new introduction, Eberstadt explains how the government's response to Covid-19 inadvertently exacerbated the flight from work in America. From indiscriminate pandemic shutdowns to almost unconditional “unemployment” benefits, Americans were essentially paid not to work.      Given the devastating economic impact of the Covid calamity and the unforeseen aftershocks yet to come, this reissue of Eberstadt's groundbreaking work is timelier than ever.

Doing meaningful work is part of the good life but, in today's post-pandemic world, millions of Americans are neither working nor looking for work. In this episode, economist and author Nicholas Eberstadt examines what happened to the famed American work ethic and why so many people are checked out of the workforce, even as businesses everywhere seek help. YOU WILL LEARN:· Why work is so important.· How a ‘flight from work' affects the economy, culture and society.· What can be done to improve the situation. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: “Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition,” by Nicholas Eberstadt S1E289, The Blessing of Work “The Emigrant Edge,” by Brian Buffini “Miracle,” movie “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy,” by Joseph Schumpeter NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE: “Work is a service to others that helps to complete you. It's part of our connection to our world. It's part of our connection to society, to family.” – Nicholas Eberstadt “Leisure is when you use your free time to restore yourself or to uplift yourself. You can also use leisure in ways that's terribly destructive, that's degrading.” – Nicholas Eberstadt “We need entrepreneurs because we need to have the dynamic churn that provides the creative destruction, that puts all of the pieces and all of the ingredients in our economy to work in a more productive manner.” – Nicholas Eberstadt “The most important thing is persistence. And it's being ready to get back up the 101st time after you've fallen down 100 times. That is the most important habit that successful people all share.” – Nicholas Eberstadt “Part of the good life is good work.” – Brian Buffini Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The workforce participation rate that is.  The number of able-bodied men choosing not to work is a crisis, and Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, can prove it.

Krystal and Saagar discuss nuclear threats, Brazil elections, housing market, Herschel Walker, Iran protests, & men without work! To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl  Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Chicago Tickets: https://www.axs.com/events/449151/breaking-points-live-tickets  Nicholas Eberstadt: https://templetonpress.org/books/men-without-work-2/  Glenn Greenwald: https://greenwald.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Krystal and Saagar discuss nuclear threats, Brazil elections, housing market, Herschel Walker, Iran protests, & men without work!To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/Chicago Tickets: https://www.axs.com/events/449151/breaking-points-live-tickets Nicholas Eberstadt: https://templetonpress.org/books/men-without-work-2/ Glenn Greenwald: https://greenwald.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Krystal and Saagar analyze the Russia-Ukraine war, OPEC oil production cut, Iran protests, Amazon warehouse fires, Taylor Lorenz meltdown, Musk buying Twitter, victims of capitalism, & men dropping from the workforce! To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl  Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Chicago Tickets: https://www.axs.com/events/449151/breaking-points-live-tickets  Nicholas Eberstadt: https://templetonpress.org/books/men-without-work-2/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Krystal and Saagar analyze the Russia-Ukraine war, OPEC oil production cut, Iran protests, Amazon warehouse fires, Taylor Lorenz meltdown, Musk buying Twitter, victims of capitalism, & men dropping from the workforce!To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/Chicago Tickets: https://www.axs.com/events/449151/breaking-points-live-tickets Nicholas Eberstadt: https://templetonpress.org/books/men-without-work-2/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nicholas Eberstadt, AEI's Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, makes an overdue Remnant return to discuss his new book, Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition, an expanded version of his 2016 release which examined the collapse of work for men in modern America. Why are increasingly large numbers of men abandoning the workforce? Is something similar going on with women? And what will be the social, cultural, and economic effects of this trend? Tune in to hear these questions answered, and to hear some reflections on why work is valuable in the first place.Show Notes:- Dr. Eberstadt's page at AEI- Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition- Dr. Eberstadt: “What's Behind the Flight from Work in Post-Pandemic America”- The Remnant with Michael Strain- Charles Murray's Coming Apart- The Remnant with Marian Tupy- Keynes: “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren”- China, unquarantined- Allahpundit, unmasked- Dispatch Live introduces Kevin D. Williamson