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On a boiling hot drive back from Ennis, I listened to Interesting Times with Ross Douthat, the New York Times podcast on “the growing alienation between men and women”. Douthat sees it as “one of the biggest stories of our time”.
He’s not alone. Many commentators believe a new war between men and women has broken out.
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