Adam Stanaland

Dec 4, 2024 | theconversation.com | Nick Lehr |Adam Stanaland

For the past few years, right-wing media have argued that the U.S. is plagued by a masculinity crisis, whether it’s former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson warning of collapsing testosterone levels in his 2022 documentary “The End of Men” or Sen. Josh Hawley decrying what he called the left’s project to “deconstruct” men and “define traditional masculinity as toxic.” Rhetoric aside, there may be a real vein that these pundits and politicians are tapping into.

Dec 4, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Adam Stanaland

A few years ago I was hired to help revise a psychology textbook to make it more engaging for Gen Z. I’m a millennial, but my younger brother is Gen Z (“digital natives” born between 1997 and 2012), and our perceptions of American life differ—sometimes significantly. To help with my revisions, I read iGen by psychologist Jean Twenge.