Commentary “Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female students by record levels.” That was the first sentence of a story in the Wall Street Journal on Sept. 6 with the dramatic title “A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost.’” The numbers certainly look stark.  Women now make up 59.5 percent of college students, men 40.5, a 3-to-2 split. Also, as they proceed toward graduation, the gap widens. Six years after entering college, 65 percent of women earn their diploma, while only 59 percent of men do so. One expert tells the WSJ that we should expect the rate of males-to-females in college to reach two-to-one in a few years. The research on which the news story was based evoked lots of commentary—Why are males slipping? What does this mean for their future prospects? Did the pandemic have a lot …