Men in developed Western societies face a crisis of meaning, purpose, and identity that manifests in escalating rates of suicide, addiction, social withdrawal, underachievement, and profound confusion about what it means to be a man in the twenty-first century. Young men in particular are failing to launch into adult life at unprecedented rates, remaining dependent on parents well into their twenties and thirties, avoiding committed relationships, dropping out of education and employment, retreating into virtual worlds of gaming and pornography, and reporting epidemic levels of anxiety, depression, and hopelessness about their futures. These patterns are not random individual failures but...