Men are back

One of the most pernicious and destructive cultural trends in the United States over the past 30 years or so has been the demonization of men and masculinity.

This has taken many forms. Take, for example, the medicalization of boyish behavior in schools, which resulted in widespread diagnoses of “attention deficit disorder” and “attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,” and overprescribing of drugs like Ritalin. Saner voices who insisted that boys simply needed more physical activity...