The End of the End of Men

The patriarchy died in its sleep sometime during Obama’s first term. Or so goes the argument of The End of Men, a 2012 polemic that’s being revisited in the wake of the election. As Donald Trump aggressively courted young men on his way to victory, the mainstream media desperately searched for the right kind of talking heads to help explain the widening gender divide haunting our politics. Enter the book’s author, journalist Hanna Rosin, whom NPR interviewed on a post-election bro-safari to ask whether Trump voters were “Making America Male Again.”