The New York Times

A low murder rate is by no means the only measure of a good society. But it’s a pretty good measure of a society’s underlying stability.

In the wake of #MeToo, changing workplace norms left many men unsure of how to behave. But was that confusion genuine — or just an excuse? On “The Opinions,” Frederick Joseph argues that many men became “childlike during that time.”

Films like “Inside Out” raise questions about how we portray boys’ emotional lives. “It just felt like every time that a male character appeared onscreen in that movie, they were an emotional idiot,” Ruth Whippman says on “The Opinions.”