Just one brief note on this viral essay about the shrinking opportunities for younger white men in many professional fields: the category “white” is a notoriously slippery one, but roughly speaking, 30% of Americans are white men. If you keep that in mind, you’ll see that some of the statistics in the essay are considerably more noteworthy than others.
Alan Jacobs
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