Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry

In this bonus episode, I spoke with Nina Power about the symbolic power of terrorism and how this has changed post-9/11, the increasingly nihilistic motivations of terrorists in Europe, the use of the Oasis track ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing, and the increasing public distrust of government narrativ...

My guest today is Holly Lawford-Smith, a philosopher, author and associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. We discussed her latest book, titled 'Feminism Beyond Left and Right', in which Holly argues for an expansive definition of feminism that untethers it from its association with the Left.

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In this bonus episode, I spoke with Meghan Murphy about whether marriage is still an attractive prospect for women, Meghan's own objections to getting married, the problem for feminists of working out whether a woman is really choosing something or whether she's deluded about her own desires, and what the apparent return of the bandage dres...

Bijan Omrani is an historian, classicist, and research fellow at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is titled (somewhat provocatively) 'God is an Englishman: How Christianity Created England.' We spoke about how little we know about pre-Christian Britain, why Christianity swept through the country so rapidly during the Early Mid...

Vaishnavi Sundar is a filmmaker, founder of Limesoda Films, and creator of a new documentary titled 'Behind The Looking Glass', a film about the lives of women whose male partners identify as trans. This is the first film to be made about the experiences of so-called 'trans widows.' Vaishnavi interviewed dozens of women and pieced together ...

My guest today is Ben Cobley, former Labour Party activist turned journalist, and author of a new book titled 'The Progress Trap: The Modern Left and the False Authority of History.'

We spoke about why progressivism is such an attractive ideology, not least because it offers certainty and a feeling of being a part of a grand historical proj...

My guest today is Marco Del Giudice, Associate Professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Trieste. We spoke about one of Marco's key research interests: evolutionary psychopathology. That is, how our evolutionary history influences mental illness. We spoke about how gender differences in personality influence psychopa...

My guest today is Jamie Franklin, the priest in charge at Holy Trinity Church in Winchester, the host of the podcast 'Irreverend', author of the Substack 'Good Things', and also of a new book titled 'The Great Return: Why only a restoration of Christianity can save Western civilization.'

We spoke about why covid revealed some of the terribl...

My guest today is Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human Rights Law at King's College London and the author of a new book, 'Transgender Rights vs. Women's Rights: From Conflicts to Co-Existence.' We spoke about what the slogan "trans rights are human rights" actually means; why Robert changed his mind and turned against the trans movement, ha...

My guest today is Benjamin Goldman, Assistant Professor of economics at Cornell University. We spoke about his research on marriage: why non-college educated Americans have seen plummeting marriage rates over the last century, how sex ratios affect dating cultures, how male "left tail" phenomena like joblessness and incarceration are affect...

My guest today is Michelle Stone, host of the podcast 132 Problems: Revisiting Mormon Polygamy. We spoke about Michelle's experience of raising an unusually large family (even by Mormon standards!) and why women who want to have a lot of children are typically motivated by a feeling of spiritual purpose. We also spoke about the controversia...

My guest today is Esmé Partridge, a researcher and writer working at the intersection of religion, philosophy and politics.We spoke about where the Church of England is going wrong, what Gen-Z are looking for in a church, the popularity of #witchtok and other expressions of occultism among young women, and the challenge that all religions f...

My guest today is Alex Mills, Professor of Biology at York University in Toronto. We spoke about Alex's particular area of expertise, the biology of sex: what 'male' and 'female' actually mean across species, why mammals tend to be inattentive fathers, a very surprising theory as to why dinosaurs went extinct, sexual coercion in other speci...

My guest today is Chine McDonald, director of Theos, the British think tank that explores the role of religion in modern society. Chine is also the author of a new book, Unmaking Mary: Shattering the Myth of Perfect Motherhood, and co-host of the podcast Motherhood vs. The Machine. We spoke about the wisdom of traditional child birthing pra...

My guest today is Julie Bindel, the iconic radical feminist campaigner, journalist, and author, including of a new book titled 'Lesbians: Where are we now?'

We spoke about why transgenderism may well be over, at least in the UK, and why Julie isn't minded to forgive the people who enabled the abuses of the movement. We also spoke about Juli...

My guest today is Thomas Chatterton Williams, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the upcoming book 'Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.' We spoke about the so-called 'woke right', the rejection of liberal principles on both ends of the political spectrum, whether or not we have come to the end...