About this Event
Doors 6.30pm for a 7pm start
What do we tell our boys about what it is to be a man? Often, the answer is a long list of toxic traits. We should not be surprised by the results. A constant, pervasive drumbeat tells boys and young men that certain behaviours and attitudes are inherently male.
The bleak outcomes facing today's young men - in suicide, addiction, joblessness, academic failure and radicalisation - are the predictable consequence of a culture comfortable with these crass generalisations. The answer is not, as the manosphere would have boys believe, to blame feminism. It is to learn from it.
Harry Carr's What A Man Is Not makes a passionate case for the boys we are losing - and offers a practical, optimistic plan for getting them back.
Harry Carr is a data journalist, pollster and policy researcher. He has worked for news organisations, consultancies and research agencies on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Wall Street Journal, Sky News, Demos and Ipsos, and has won a Royal Television Society award for his journalism. He is a Director at the Burning Glass Institute, an American economics think tank, and lives in Oxfordshire, England with his wife and two sons (and two ferocious cockapoos).
Stephen Bush is an associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times, where he writes Inside Politics, the paper’s daily newsletter on power and policy in the UK, and a weekly column. He joined the FT in 2022 from the New Statesman, where he had been Political Editor since 2018, and has also written for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the i. He was named Journalist of the Year by the Political Studies Association in 2017, and in 2020 chaired the Board of Deputies of British Jews’ commission on racial inclusivity in the Jewish community. He is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He grew up in east London and once spent a year cooking his way through Delia Smith for a Guardian column.
Event venue & nearby stays
Stoke Newington Bookshop, 159 Stoke Newington High Street, London, United Kingdom
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