In summer 2010 Reeves left Demos, joining the office of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, a Liberal Democrat, as a Special Advisor.

[8] Reeves was Director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative at Brookings, working principally on issues related to intergenerational mobility, inequality and social change.

Reeves has published four books, including John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (2007),[9] a biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician, Happy Mondays (2002) about job satisfaction,[10] and Of Boys And Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (2022).

[12] Reeves appears regularly on radio and television as a political commentator and writes for a variety of publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian and The Observer.

[26] In The New Yorker, Idrees Kahloon wrote, “Reeves offers a wide menu of policies designed to foster a ‘prosocial masculinity for a postfeminist world.’”[27] Former President Barack Obama included Of Boys and Men on his list of recommended “great books” in August 2024.

Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times wrote, “Dismissive of partisanship, Reeves elides the political and economic decisions that have made American life brutal, in different but overlapping ways, for women and men both.”[29] Matthew Yglesias noted that “Reeves is focused on ‘boy solutions,’ but even here it’s often a little unclear how much sex really matters.”[30] Conservative critics have taken issue with his relatively muted focus on marriage as a solution for men’s challenges, with one commentator arguing that “he implies that what fathers teach can be decoupled from their role as husband.”[31] In 2023, Reeves delivered a TED talk titled “How to solve the education crisis for boys and men”[32] and produced several videos with Big Think, including “Male Inequality”[33] and “The Friendship Recession,”[34] the latter winning a Webby Award in 2024.