I also made my pitch for optimism as a civic virtue. I’m kind of bored of the glass half-empty instinct on all sides, and the failure, as I put it here, of “anyone to take a win”. I quoted Rabbi David Wolpe on the “psychological reluctance to succeed” among activists. It’s a lesson I try to keep in mind in my own work. I used to say that policymakers, especially on the political left, were neglecting the issues of boys and men. I simply can’t say that today.