Chivalry is dead. Modern dating helped kill it.

Yesterday New York Attorney General Letitia James appointed veteran federal prosecutor Jacqueline Kelly to lead a criminal investigation into allegations that seven Cornell University students sexually assaulted a young woman at a fraternity house in 2024.

Whatever the outcome of the investigation, the allegations have already prompted broader cultural commentary about what’s wrong with young men today. Writing for the Institute for Family Studies, Leonard Sax argues that too many boys are no longer taught how to behave like gentlemen.

Boys receive endless lectures on what they should not be, while the cultural manual for positive male behavior remains suspiciously short on practical guidance.

Sax’s central point is difficult to quarrel with: Boys should be taught self-control, and a decent man does not take advantage of a drunk