Source: Vox
giving up on each other: What You Need to Know
THE TL;DW
- Host Christine Emba talks with pollster Dan Cox about his new book arguing American men and women are increasingly giving up on each other, drifting apart in dating, friendship, and politics.
- Cox traces the split back to roughly the 2016 election era, when political polarization began splitting young men and women onto different ideological paths.
- The conversation covers rising safety anxieties among young women, the role of smartphones in eroding real-world connection, and possible fixes for rebuilding trust between genders.
The Jupiter Take
This episode packages years of Dan Cox’s polling work at the Survey Center on American Life into a conversational format timed to his new book’s release. It’s a data-driven discussion, not a hot take — though the framing and proposed solutions reflect Cox and Emba’s own analysis and should be read as their interpretation of the trends.
Context
Dan Cox, director of the Survey Center on American Life at the American Enterprise Institute, has spent nearly a decade documenting what his new book calls a “relational crisis between men and women” —
