One takeaway from the 2024 elections is the dizzying partisan gap between young men and women. Young men were fully 32 points more likely to vote Republican, a gender gap far larger than anything ever seen before. Given that people are increasingly disinclined to date and marry across political lines, this suggests a future of fewer marriages, fewer families, and increased loneliness. At worst, we could be headed for a South Korea-style future where young men and women despise each other, distrust each other, and have no interest in starting families with each other.

Serious stuff, and there’s no silver bullet for it. But I’d offer a modest proposal, and not in the Swiftian sense, for bringing young men and women together: mixed-gender sports.