In 2024, Let’s Work to Tackle the Hate Campaign Against Men

Published on January 8, 2024

Commentary In a brilliant column recently published in The Australian, economist Henry Ergas summed up 2023 as “the year of living angrily.” Describing the successive waves of outrage and hatred dominating the year’s public discourse, he made the point that the Greeks believed rage differed fundamentally from ordinary anger: “Anger had a defined focus; rage, a sign of fury at the world, was labile, readily shifting from one object to another.” “Characteristic of personal immaturity, it was by its nature opportunistic, rushing to the target of the moment, like a child rushing to a new toy,” he explained. One of Australia’s greatest haters has a new toy....