Daniel A. Cox

to kind of avoid that topic altogether because then it doesn't actually create any conflict it kind of removes it is that kind of living in secrecy maybe a little bit but I mean you want a long lasting relationship I think sometimes a little bit of secrecy is good maybe

So is politics having more of an influence on who people date these days? And if there is a political dating divide, does it matter? Daniel Cox has spent a lot of time studying some of these questions.

He's the author of a new book, Generation Uncoupled, which examines a growing divide among young men and women in the United States.

He's also founder and director of the Survey Center on American Life at the American Enterprise Institute.

Absolutely.

It was wonderful to talk to you.

That was Daniel Cox, the author of Generation Uncoupled.

Since Daniel's research focuses on the U.S., I also wanted to take a look at how much of this is true in Canada.

So this, this is, is super dark.

Um, Derek Thompson interviewed Daniel Cox, who is the author of a book called Generation Uncoupled.

Let me read this.

"One inevitable result of this has been rising discomfort with friction and prioritizing the avoidance of embarrassment.

The research behind this is pretty eye-opening.

Daniel Cox is one of the people who conducted it.

He is founder and director of the Survey Center on American Life and a senior fellow in polling and public opinion at the American Enterprise Institute.

His research has been widely cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and hundreds of other major media outlets.

Uh, you, you gotta be comfortable doing those kinds of things.

Well, you know, I have a son in that age group, so this really strikes home for me, and, uh, and I think what you've said is so important for, for everyone.

Daniel Cox has been my guest.

He is founder and director of the Survey Center on American Life, and he's author of the book Generation Uncoupled: America's New Gender Divide and the Crisis of Human Connection.

They're growing apart politically, um, and in more ways than that, navigating different expectations on dating and marriage and all sorts of stuff.

And today, we're actually joined by Daniel Cox, who's the founder and director of the Survey Center on American Life, and a senior fellow in polling and public opinion at the American Enterprise Institute.

He holds a PhD from Georgetown University and writes the newsletter, American Storylines, and he's gonna come here and help us think through this.

We're gonna talk about his latest book, well, his forthcoming book rather, Generation Uncoupled: America's Newest, or New Gender Divide and the Crisis of Human Connection.

If there was more room built into male friendships for softness, for the parts of life that aren't, you know, golf and work or the Eagles game last night.

In researching, across a 2023 essay called Male Friendships Are Not Doing the Job by Daniel A. Cox, the director of the Survey Center on American Life and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

And in this article, he shared a story that I think captures what I'm talking about so well.

This writer, Jeffrey Zaslow, described playing poker with the same group of guy friends every Thursday night for 18 years.