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Today's guest is a writer and a social scientist. He's also a dual citizen. He's the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men. I'm grateful that he's here today. Today's guest is Richard Rees. Richard Reeves, thanks for joining us today, brother.
Yeah, I'm really thrilled to be here.
Yeah, we appreciate it, man. You want to move that in a little bit for me, if you don't mind? Yeah, sure. And you are British.
By birth, I'm American now. Okay, you're American now. Yeah, I became a U.S. citizen in 2016, so I'm very, very proud of this country.
Oh, welcome. Nice. Thank you. And you're the president for the American Institute for Boys and Men. Yep.
New think tank. God knows we need more think tanks, right? That's what America's really clamoring for, is more scholars sitting in think tanks, producing charts. Honestly, I was in another think tank for 10 years before that, the Brookings Institution. Huge think tank in Washington, D.C. Great job. And I got to tell you, it was not in my life plan. To be in a think tank? To create another one.
No, actually, being in a think tank is great. What that means is you basically just get paid good money to write stuff and say stuff that you're interested in.
And what happens to a lot of that information from think tanks?
Well, that depends who you ask. If you ask the critics, they say it just gathers dust on people's shelves. Maybe like two people in Congress read it. One New York Times journalist reads it. So there is this whole thing now that think tanks used to produce policy papers and then grateful – legislators, members of Congress, would say, thank you, we'll go and turn that into a law. And ta-da!
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