Both liberals and conservatives are wrong about what’s wrong with boys

An interesting new book by Niobe Way, Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture, examines what’s troubling boys. Way is a psychology professor at New York University and director of the Ph.D. program in developmental psychology.

Rebels with a Cause is a book that will probably get criticized by conservatives, and indeed there are ideas here that deserve challenging. The book too often parrots the modern leftist line that gender is a social construct and that capitalism is an evil that drives men to competitiveness, when in fact men are just competitive and like to own cool stuff by nature.