This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://wisdomofcrowds.live?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">wisdomofcrowds.live</a> Women and men are having a hard time finding each other. A lot of women are giving up on finding a mate. Some women with mates are worried that their men don’t have any friends. Everyone hates dating apps. People are having fewer babies.These are among the many depressing stories that the media is telling about love and marriage today. How true are they? Are things truly worse for today’s young people than they were for previous generations? <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/3785359-shadi-hamid">Shadi Hamid</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/535477-christine-emba">Christine Emba</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/2923823-damir-marusic">Damir Marusic</a> get together this week to discuss these questions and more. Christine is more sympathetic to these media narratives and is appreciative of the social research behind them. Shadi for the most part agrees, seeing a troubled future for many single men in the United States. Damir is skeptical: things have always been tough in the war between the sexes, and yet, people manage to find a partner. It’s a passionate, personal episode of Wisdom of Crowds.In our bonus section for paid subscribers, Damir discusses his recent debate with <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/5181476-santiago-ramos">Santiago Ramos</a> about war; Damir talks about inequality and <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/4761-tyler-cowen">Tyler Cowen</a>; “Is having 90% of the population hooked up to PlayStations sustainable?”; Damir on marriage: it’s about sacrifice and family, not “fulfillment”; why these New York Times pieces are not representative of most Americans; and more!Required Reading:* Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men” (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/magazine/men-heterofatalism-dating-relationships.html">New York Times</a>).* Rachel Drucker, “Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back” (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/style/modern-love-men-where-have-you-gone-please-come-back.html">New York Times</a>). * Daniel Jones, “Where Have Men Gone? We’re Right Here” (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/style/modern-love-where-have-men-gone-were-right-here.html">New York Times</a>).* Catherine Pearson, “Why Women Are Weary of the Emotional Labor of ‘Mankeeping’ ” (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/well/family/mankeeping-definition.html">New York Times</a>). Free preview video:Full video for paid subscribers:

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