Fewer Men Are Attending College! Is This A Market Correction Or Data That Points To a Generation of Video Game Basement Dwellers? Do Men Deserve Help? Can America Rationally Discuss This?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels. At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline. This education gap, which holds at both two- and four-year colleges, has been slowly widening for 40 years. The divergence increases at graduation: After six years of college, 65% of women in the U.S. who started a four-year university in 2012 received diplomas by 2018 compared with 59% of men during the same period, according to the U.S. Department of Education. This paragraph comes from an article in the Wall Street Journal titled: "A Generation of American Men Give Up On College: 'I Just Feel Lost.'"  The article is written by Douglas Belkin.  You can read the article here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233 Zac and Don discuss possible reasons why men are not attending college at the same rate as women.  They wonder if this data is a concern or a market correction for society.  They also wonder if America will be able to have a sensible conversation about this issue.