Discussed in this episode: 

• Rupert Lowe statement on the Greens. 
• Times of London analysis of the Green vote. 
• Akhmed Yakoob on the Greens.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today doesn't reject evolutionary psychology as a discipline, but he is critical of many popular interpretations of the research on human mating. 

Of course there are psychological differences between men and women, of course some people are more beautiful than others, and of course some people struggle to attract dates. But it's easy to exaggerate when talking about the psychology of sex and relationships. 

If you look around you'll quickly notice that not every rich man is married to a penniless beautiful woman half his age, and being below average in terms of atttractiveness does not actually condemn someone to a lifetime of loneliness. 

What Paul Eastwick is offering is something like a purple pill. It's not that the red pill narrative is completely wrong, but it misses some important nuance about how people actually behave in the real world. 

Paul is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He's the co-host of the 'Love Factually' podcast. And his new book is titled 'Bonded by Evolution: The New Science of Love and Connection

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed in the episode:

• MMM episode on ‘Adolescence’
• Peep Show, “I’m Louis Theroux, I’m Louis Theroux”
• ‘When Louis met... Jimmy’
• Louis Theroux on Modern Wisdom

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

MMM is sponsored by 321 - a new online introduction to Christianity, presented by former MMM guest Glen Scrivener. Check it out for free at 321course.com/MMM. Just enter your email, choose a password and you’re in — there’s no spam and no fees. 

The queen of reactionary feminism, Mary Harrington, is now hosting a monthly YouTube show with Socrates in the City. I was one of her first guests and the Socrates team were kind enough to let me share our conversation with you here. We discussed the disappointments of postliberalism, arguments over the feminisation of public life, the loss of male status in the modern world, conflict within the gender critical movement, and the debate over ethno-nationalism in Britain. 

To watch more of Mary's interviews head over to Socrates in the City on YouTube. She's also recently spoken to Jonathan Pageau, Nina Power, and Justin Brierley, all conversations that I'm sure will be of interest to MMM listeners. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tom Ough says that none of this is necessary. Britain could – and should – pursue a programme of innovation that benefits its people materially, but that also feels psychologically comforting in its cultural familiarity. The term for this vision is "Anglofuturism", our subject today.

Tom is a senior editor at UnHerd, co-host of the Anglofuturism podcast, and author of 'The Anti-Catastrophe League: The pioneers and visionaries on a quest to save the world.'

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/against-the-grain/id1823575411

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'A Better Life' is a novel about immigration, gender, and political polarisation – all topics we discuss today. Lionel is the author of nineteen novels, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction for the massive bestseller 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', and a columnist at the Spectator Magazine.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John is a senior editor at The Federalist and the author of 'Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come.' Today we speak about the dangers of re-enchantment, and why John believes that the dark side of the supernatural must be regarded with the utmost seriousness. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daniels is a doctor, as well as the author of dozens of books. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of perhaps his most famous, 'Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass', a collection of essays about Daniels' time working as a doctor at both an inner-city hospital and a prison. 

One of his tasks in this role was to interview something in the region of 10,000 people who had attempted suicide. They would tell him about their lives, and about the lives of the people closest to them. "From this source alone," Daniels writers, "I have learned about the lives of some fifty thousand people: lives dominated, almost without exception, by violence, crime, and degradation." 

Today we talk about what he surmised from these conversations – about the true nature of poverty, of domestic abuse, and the social fallout from the sexual revolution. We also talk about what the British elites fail to understand about the so-called underclass. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed in this episode: 

• Serial series on the Trojan Horse affair
• Hannah Spencer on Newsnight
• Tony Blair documentary series
• Pimlico Journal article on Restore

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed in the episode:

• Sorkin interviewed on the BBC.
• Rob’s NYT piece on The West Wing.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are all descended from thousands of generations of parents who successfully raised their children to adulthood. But, unlike those parents, we all have access to plentiful food, indoor plumbing, effective medicine, and all of the other technologies that make modern life so comfortable. You might expect, therefore, that the modern experience of parenthood would feel easy. Why doesn't it?  

My guest today first started thinking about the unnaturalness of modern parenting when she became the mother of two little kids, born close together in age. She was spending much of her time alone with them and feeling acutely stressed. It set her thinking about the evolutionary mismatch between this very isolated existence, and the way in which our ancient ancestors raised their children. 

Elena Bridgers is a science writer and author of the substack 'Motherhood Until Yesterday.' Today we spoke about the many ways in which modern parenting is historically strange – from co-sleeping to alloparenting to birth spacing. What can hunter gatherers teach us about how to make parenting easier? 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Give the gift of everyday luxury and make every moment comfortable. Head to cozyearth.com and use my code COZYMMM for 20% off sitewide. And if you get a Post-Purchase Survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth at the Maiden Mother Matriarch podcast.

Testing a foetus or an embryo for some medical conditions is now a routine part of the modern pregnancy experience. Prenatal Down’s Syndrome tests, for instance, are now so widespread that in some Scandinavian countries almost 100 per cent of women choose to abort a foetus diagnosed with the condition, or – if using IVF – not implant the affected embryo. The result is a visible change to these populations: there are simply no more people with Down’s to be seen on the streets of Iceland and Denmark.

New technology is now available – at a high price – for those who want to go further. So-called polygenic embryo screening can give a very full picture of the adult that the embryo could become, including his or her vulnerability to an enormous number of diseases – heart disease, diabetes, cancer – and also the physical and psychological traits that he or she would likely possess: height, hair colour, athletic ability, conscientiousness, altruism, intelligence. 

Is this a good thing? Should we welcome a world in which parents are routinely selecting their embryos in this way? 

I'm joined today by two guests who take a very different view. 

Emma Waters is a policy analyst at the Center for Technology and the Human Person at the Heritage Foundation. Her work focuses on family, biotechnology, and reproductive medicine.

Jonathan Anomaly is a philosopher, author of the book 'Creating Future People: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Enhancement', and is also the director of scientific research and communication for Herasight, a genetics startup that offers polygenic embryo screening.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the cover of their new book, authors Dean Spears and Michael Geruso have a graph of the global population over time. The population is small and roughly stable for pretty much all of human history. It rises after the advent of agriculture, some ten thousand years ago, but that bump looks rather minor now. 

It's only after the industrial revolution that we see this enormous spike, taking us from a world containing 1 billion people in 1800 to over 8 billion today. So far, so familiar. 

But what Spears and Geruso are interested in is what happens next. Their book is titled 'After the Spike' because they foresee an imminent addition to the familiar population graph: a descent just as steep as the ascent. An exponential decline that might even take us back to a global population smaller than that of 1800. 

I speak to Dean Spears today about what demographic research indicates is imminently in store for us as a species, and what might be on the horizon 'after the spike.'  

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

• Article in 'The Point' on heteropessimism
• 'The Harry Potter generation needs to grow up'
• Tucker Carlson interviews Nick Fuentes
• Fuentes on Red Scare
• Rod's Substack post on nurses' comments on ICE agents
• 'The Radical Right Is Coming for Your Sons'
• Ezra Klein on Trump

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Teenage anxiety isn’t a new thing. Our mothers and grandmothers also worried about beauty, and friendships, and boys.

What is new, however, is the role of technology in teenage anxiety. We see an inflection point in the early 2010s: a sudden drop in mental wellbeing among teenagers, particularly girls. The beginning of that drop coincided with the arrival of image-based social media like Instagram.

My guest today argues that this was not a coincidence. Freya India is the author of the Substack GIRLS, where she writes about the challenges girls and young women face in the modern world. She’s also a staff writer for Jonathan Haidt’s newsletter, After Babel.

Her new book is about the ways in which communication technology has given us a world in which teenage girls end up commodifying themselves – selling their lives on social media, advertising themselves on dating apps, and packaging themselves into personal brands. All at the cost of their own sanity.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We discussed the cultural impact of Jack the Ripper, the terror of body snatching, the practice of postmortem photography, and the Spiritualist movement's preoccupation with electricity.  

Discussed in the episode:

• 'How The Victorians Eroticised Death, From Ophelia To Salome'
• More on the anatomical venus 
• More on body snatching and Georgia Medical College

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The word 'meritocracy' was originally intended as a pejorative. It was coined in a 1958 novel written by the British social scientist Michael Young. In the dystopia that Young imagined, the old order has been overthrown and replaced with a tyrannical system obsessed with merit. 

Today's guest not only joins Young in his critique of meritocracy, he also takes a further bold step in endorsing some extremely old fashioned ideas about wealth, family, and legacy. 

In an age when celebrities routinely boast about their plans to disinherit their children and leave them to fend for themselves financially, Johann Kurtz makes a counter-cultural argument for nepotism. Do not give your money to charity, he says. Do not encourage your children to launch themselves into the meritocratic rat race. Learn, instead, from the ancient practices of aristocrats who had very different ideas about how to cultivate virtue in their descendants. 

Kurtz is the author of the 'Becoming Noble' Substack. His new book is titled 'Leaving a Legacy: Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families.'

Discussed in the show: 

• 'Leaving a Legacy'
• Stress induced by downward social mobility
• 'Good Money' podcast series
• Survey on attitudes towards grandchildren
• 'Toxic Charity'
• 'Revolt of the Elites'

MMM is sponsored by 321 - a new online introduction to Christianity, presented by former MMM guest Glen Scrivener. Check it out for free at 321course.com/MMM. Just enter your email, choose a password and you’re in — there’s no spam and no fees. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed in this episode: 

• Conservatives are more accurate in describing the beliefs of liberals
• "Met police hired black child rapist to boost diversity"
• "Met urges Epping migrant sex offender to hand himself in"
• "The Birmingham Maccabi scandal proves multiculturalism has failed"
• Garrett Jones book on migration and culture
• "UAE cuts funds for students keen to study in UK ‘over fears campuses radicalised by Islamist groups'"

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is George Owers, historian and author of a new book, 'The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain.' 

Owers traces our contemporary culture war back to the end of the seventeenth century, when the conflict between Whigs and Tories was the central drama of English politics. One side was isolationist, opposed to immigration, and preferred a small state. The other was open to the rest of the world, and had ambitious plans for tax rises and state expansion. The two sides differed on the role of religion in public life, and on which ideas and symbols ought to be considered sacred. Does any of this sound familiar? 

Owers argues that we are still seeing this drama play out, not just in England but across the Anglosphere. Our political conflicts are still theological conflicts, and they are surpassingly important. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed in the episode:

• My WSJ column on Mamdani and communism. 
• Paper on infant psychology and egalitarianism. 
• Amy Chua book on violence against market-dominant minorities. 
• Emmeline Pankhurst photo

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 "So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth." 

That's a quote from 'Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years', Elizabeth Wayland Barber's landmark contribution to archeology, recently re-published in the form of a 30th anniversary edition. 

Wayland-Barber argues that the creation of string, and later of weaving, was one of the most crucial innovations in human history. And it was the work of women. 

Up until really very recently in human history, the creation of textiles was an extraordinarily time consuming and important aspect of women's daily lives. If we had not undergone the 'string revolution', we would not have been able to keep ourselves warm in cold weather, to use textiles for hunting, and to develop various complex tools essential for human survival. It's no wonder that spinning and weaving have such a central role in mythology. Today we examine the ancient connection between spinning thread and creating life. 

For ad-free and bonus episodes of the Maiden Mother Matriarch podcast go to louiseperry.substack.com. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed in the episode:

• Clavicular in conversation with Michael Knowles
• Olly Murs photos
• Documentary on sperm donor, ‘The Man with 1000 Kids’

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was succeeded, of course, by the ‘Age of Reason’, a period in which Enlightenment thinkers placed an extremely high premium on rational inquiry.

Which era are we living in now? Robert P. George suggests that we have entered an ‘Age of Feelings’, in which people derive their beliefs from emotion, which is now understood as the central source of truth.

He makes this case in his new book, ‘Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment.’ Robert P. George is a highly esteemed legal scholar and political philosopher, once described in The New York Times as America’s “most influential conservative Christian thinker.” Today we discuss faith, reason, abortion, same sex marriage, repaganisation, and more.

MMM is sponsored by Cozy Earth. Get a 40% discount at cozyearth.com/maiden or use the code COZYMMM, and in the post-purchase survey let them know you came from the podcast!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mentioned in the episode:

• Telegraph reporting on Abd El Fattah 
• Lucy Connolly interview
• Man jailed over anti-immigrant posts viewed only 33 times
• Steve Laws speaks to Andrew Gold
• Employers to be made liable for staff being offended by third parties, such as customers or members of the public
• Electoral Commission condemns postponement of council elections
• Labour councillor acquitted of encouraging violent unrest

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Charles Murray is a political scientist best known for his work on intelligence, socioeconomics, and the American welfare state. In books including 'Losing Ground' (1984), 'The Bell Curve' (1994), and 'Coming Apart' (2012), Murray has offered an interpretation of the world that foregrounds the role of genetic luck in social outcomes. A lot of people dislike this interpretation, to put it mildly. But I'm convinced by the evidence that genetic luck is important, and that we can't ignore this factor when trying to make sense of the world. 

One profound problem that we face in the twenty-first century derives from the fact that unusually intelligent people – i.e. people who have lucked out in terms of both their genetics and their environments – are often very bad at understanding how others experience the world. Murray describes a process we've undergone since the end of the Second World War whereby a new cognitive elite has become increasingly isolated – socially and geographically – from the rest of society. This distance encourages feelings of contempt towards people further down the class system, who in turn feel anger at the ways in which they are misgoverned by an elite that feels no sense of noblesse oblige. The result has been bitter political polarisation – one of the many subjects that we discuss in today's episode. 

Find ad-free and bonus episodes of the Maiden Mother Matriarch podcast at louiseperry.substack.com. 

Discussed in this episode: 

• 'Taking Religion Seriously' by Charles Murray
• Helen Andrews on the 'Great Feminisation'
• 'The Son Also Rises' by Gregory Clark

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed in the episode:

• 'The lost generation' - Compact Magazine
• 'The vanishing white male writer' - Compact Magazine
• 'The vanishing' - Tablet Magazine
• 'The Daily' episode on media trust

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

MMM is sponsored by 321 - a new online introduction to Christianity, presented by former MMM guest Glen Scrivener. Check it out for free at 321course.com/MMM. Just enter your email, choose a password and you’re in — there’s no spam and no fees. 

We have seen an extraordinary change in attitudes towards gay and lesbian people over the last half century in the West. Within living memory, homosexuality was criminalised. Now, same-sex couples can get married and share custody of children. This is nothing short of a moral revolution. 

Plenty of progressives think, not only that this change was inevitable, but also that further liberalisation is inevitable. My guests today are not so sure. 

They note that, for the first time in a long time, younger people on average are less accepting of homosexuality than are slightly older people. Perhaps this is a result of immigration patterns. Perhaps it's a result of strategic errors made by activists. I'm joined by three people who all agree that something has gone wrong, although they disagree – subtly – on exactly how and why. 

Ronan McCrea is professor of constitutional and European law at University College London and the author of 'The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom.' 

Matthew Vines the the Founder and Executive Director of The Reformation Project and the author of 'God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships.'

And Julie Bindel is a journalist, broadcaster, author, and the co-founder and co-director of The Lesbian Project.

All of these guests share a concern that the wins of the gay rights movement are very fragile. There is a very real possibility that we will look back on the early twenty-first century as an historical blip – a brief moment of victory that was squandered. We ask how that fate might be avoided. 

Discussed in the show: 

• 'The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom'
• 'God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships' 
• 'Lesbians: Where are we now?' 
• The Lesbian Project podcast 
• Stephen Ireland news story
• My interview with Darel E. Paul 
• Operation Spanner

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Description: In this bonus episode, I spoke with Ed West about why the American Right is so preoccupied with British decline.

Discussed in this episode:

• The declining lethality of violent assault
• Christopher Caldwell on Trump's warnings on Europe
• Curtis Yarvin on hobbits and elves
• British Muslim crime rate
• Leamington Spa case

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

to cozyearth.com and use my code COZYMMM for 20% off sitewide. And if you

get a Post-Purchase Survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth at the Maiden Mother Matriarch podcast.

I know that there are many people listening to this podcast right now who truly and sincerely want to get married, but can't find the right person. They've done the usual things – they've tried the apps, they've tried going to church, they've asked their friends to set them up. These strategies aren't futile – we all know plenty of people who met their spouses in this way – but they're not a guarantee, either. 

If we've learnt anything from the social experiment of the sexual revolution, it's that matchmaking is a difficult coordination problem. Earlier this year, I interviewed Christiana Maxion, a professional matchmaker who takes a very intuitive approach to her work. Today, I'm joined by someone who comes at the problem in a very different way. 

Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychologist, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico, and the author of books including 'The Mating Mind' (2001) and 'Mating Intelligence' (2008). He's also the Chief Science Advisor to a dating platform that claims to be able to match people based on A.I. analysis of reams of data. Things like IQ tests, personality tests, and demographic factors like age and socioeconomic status. Geoffrey believes that this non-intuitive approach to matchmaking is the way to bring happy couples together. 

Today we speak about the science, and also the issue of expectations. What is it reasonable to want in a spouse? How can single people set themselves up to win in the marriage market? And what role should we give to other people – parents or siblings, for instance – in the process of matchmaking? 

Discussed in the show:

• My interview with Christiana Maxion.
• Keeper matchmaking

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed in the episode:

• ‘Women aren’t nags – we’re just fed up’
• ‘Thoughts on being raised by a single dad and the advice to “just do less”
• ‘The women quietly quitting their husbands’

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

But does that mean that mothers are unhappy? It's a complicated question to answer. A lot of people assume – particularly, I suspect, people who don't have children themselves – that tiredness and busyness necessarily suggest that a woman's wellbeing is damaged by having children. And there are, of course, feminist ideas that fall out of this assumption. Primarily, the idea that marriage and motherhood are oppressive to women, and that these are burdens that women long to be relieved of. 

Today I'm joined by two academics who offer their expertise on the question of maternal happiness. Wendy Wang is the Director of Research at the Institute for Family Studies, and Jenet Erickson is a fellow at the same institute. She's also an associate professor at Brigham Young University. I met Wendy and Jenet at a conference organised by the Institute for Family Studies earlier this year at which they both presented their research on marriage, children, and – here's the really interesting bit – the strong correlation between a woman's experience of physical touch and her mental wellbeing. They both argue that mothers – specifically married mothers – are happier on average than other women. Together we examine the evidence. 

Give the gift of everyday luxury and make every moment comfortable. Head to cozyearth.com and use my code COZYMMM for 20% off sitewide. And if you get a Post-Purchase Survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth at the Maiden Mother Matriarch podcast.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed in the episode: 

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15334175/The-female-police-officers-betray-law-inside-Besotted-women-share-force-secrets-criminal-lovers-share-jail-kisses-them.html
• https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36533018/ex-prison-officer-jailed-parties-onlyfans/
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2074301/Woman-with-objects-fetish-marries-Eiffel-Tower.html
• https://www.louiseperry.co.uk/p/the-evolution-of-mental-illness-marco
• https://www.louiseperry.co.uk/p/where-do-fetishes-come-from-ray-blanchard
• https://archive.org/details/lovingtosurvives0000grah 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University, and author of books including ‘iGen’, ‘Generation Me’, and ‘Generations.’ Her latest title is ‘10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World: How Parents Can Stop Smartphones, Social Media, and Gaming from Taking Over Their Children’s Lives.’

We spoke about why smartph…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, Rob Henderson and I spoke about sexual politics and education. Do men care about whether a potential wife has a degree? Is university the best place to find a spouse? And was ‘Princeton Mom’ right?

Discussed in the episode:

* https://x.com/Rich_Cooper/status/1989676504880386558

* https://x.com/sentientist/status/1991591912881680859?s=46…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and an author on Substack -

Diana Fleischman is an evolutionary psychologist, Associate Research Professor at the University of New Mexico, and author of the Dissentient Substack - https://dissentient.substack.com

Discussed in the episode:

* Diana’s essay ‘You’re probably a eugenicist’

https://dissentient.substack.com/p/eugenicist

* Shor, E., & Simchai, D. (2009). Incest avoidance, the incest taboo, and social cohesion: Revisiting Westermarck and the case of the Israeli kibbutzim. American Journal of Sociology, 114(6), 1803–1842.

* Gipson, J. D., Bornstein, M., Berger, A., & Rocca, C. H. (2021). Desire to avoid pregnancy and contraceptive use among female methadone patients in Los Angeles. Contraception, 103(5), 322–327

* Donohue, J. J., & Levitt, S. D. (2001). The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(2), 379–420. https://doi.org/10.1162/00335530151144050

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, I spoke with Ed West about the new data indicating that British citizens are emigrating in much larger numbers than anyone realised. We also spoke about how emigration has shaped the Anglosphere and the proposed reforms to the asylum system.

Discussed in the episode:

* ONS revised emigration estimates – https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplep…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Melissa Kearney, Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and author of ‘The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind.’

We spoke about the experience of raising children in a low fertility society, why feminists should care about pronatalism, the cause of the massive recent dec…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, I spoke with Diana Fleischman about the new Lily Allen album, why most people aren’t well suited to polyamory, why celebrities cheat more often than normal people, whether we should stigmatise polyamory, and the middle aged women taking testosterone to boost their libidos.

Discussed in the episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Joyce Benenson, Lecturer in Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and the author of ‘Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes.’ We spoke about boys and men – why even very young boys are often obsessed with enemies, superheroes, weapons, and everything else to do with warfare, and how psychological sex differences ar…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, Nina Power and I discussed Alasdair MacIntyre’s work and the position of postliberalism in 2025. Is the West excessively individualistic, or actually excessively communitarian? Was the welfare state a terrible mistake? And did liberalism really fail?

Discussed in the episode:

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/10/how-to-save-br…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📰 Subscribe to Maiden Mother Matriarch here to listen to full extended episodes: louiseperry.substack.com

My guest today is Joe Alto, a psychotherapist who specialises in men’s issues, particularly sexual impulse control relating to infidelity and porn use. We spoke about the therapy styles that work best for men, why men so often use porn as a self soothing tool, the false assumptions that women make about men’s porn use, why men tend to go to strip clubs in groups, how porn exposure has replaced traditional rites of passage for boys, and practical means of combating porn addiction.

The MMM podcast can also be found on Apple, Spotify, and all other streaming platforms: https://linktr.ee/maidenmothermatriarch

Follow Maiden Mother Matriarch on social media:

Twitter: @maiden_podcast

Instagram: @maiden_mother_matriarch

TikTok: @maiden_podcast

#LouisePerry #JoeAlto #MaidenMotherMatriarch

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, I spoke with Meghan Murphy about ‘gooning.’

Discussed on the show: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ann is a writer, activist, author of the book ‘The Moral Case for Abortion’ and the former chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the largest abortion provider in the UK.

Leah is the author of ‘The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto’ and also of the Substack ‘Other Feminisms.’ She works in family policy in Washington D.C.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, I spoke with Rob Henderson about the ‘Great Feminisation Hypothesis’.

Discussed in the episode:

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Dan Hitchens, senior editor at First Things Magazine. We spoke about assisted suicide: the second and third order consequences of legalisation, why low fertility welfare states are increasingly drawn to this apparent solution to their financial woes, and why Britain’s National Health Service would prove to be a particularly dangerous p…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, Rod Dreher and I discussed Pope Leo’s recent comments on refugees and the conflict within Christianity over how to respond to mass immigration.

Discussed in the episode:

https://firstthings.com/indigenous-london/Thibault De Montbrial

Jean Raspail

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Linda Griffith, Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT and director of the Center for Gynepathology Research in Boston. Linda is a leading world expert on endometriosis, our subject today. We spoke about her own experiences with the disease, why it’s so poorly understood, the challenges of diagnosis, the impact on wo…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, Nina and I spoke about the state of ‘the yookay’ – how the colonial instinct turned inwards, how we might interpret class conflict in a non-Marxist way, the deranged individualism of the English, and why generosity can so easily generate resentment. We also discussed Enoch Powell, Harry Potter, and Tolkein.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is sponsored by Relay. For a 7 day free trial, go to https://joinrelay.app/maiden and use the code ‘LOUISE’ at checkout.

📰 Subscribe to Maiden Mother Matriarch here to listen to full extended episodes: louiseperry.substack.com

My guest today is Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that investigates the political and i…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, Meghan and I spoke about ‘Right wing cancel culture’ – is it a real phenomenon? Is it as bad as the Left wing kind? And how do the Right tend to respond to their own apostates?

We also spoke about the reluctance of many pro-choice advocates to debate abortion, whether McCarthyism might have been justified, and the recent rise in p…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Christiana Maxion, a matchmaker based in Dubai who specialises in providing bespoke matchmaking services to the ultra wealthy. We spoke about how this kind of modern matchmaking differs from the traditional model, the problem of people overestimating their desirability and how a good matchmaker should respond to that, what rich men are…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, Rob Henderson and I spoke about downward social mobility and the political instability generated by elite over-production. We also discussed the status anxiety motivating the MAGA movement, whether Mars colonisation would relieve political tension, the role of downward social mobility in the industrial revolution, and why white el…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is sponsored by Relay. For a 7 day free trial, go to https://joinrelay.app/maiden and use the code ‘LOUISE’ at checkout.

📰 Subscribe to Maiden Mother Matriarch here to listen to full extended episodes: louiseperry.substack.com

My guest today is Ed Latimore, a best-selling author, former professional heavyweight boxer, and competitive chess …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We discussed whether the relationship between masculinity and femininity is necessarily hierarchical, the role of men as protectors of women, why aggression is the most difficult and volatile facet of masculinity, and whether traditional gender roles are prudent or tyrannical.

The MMM podcast can also be found on Apple, Spotify, and all other streaming platforms: https://linktr.ee/maidenmothermatriarch

This episode is sponsored by Relay. For a 7 day free trial, go to https://joinrelay.app/maiden and use the code ‘LOUISE’ at checkout.

📰 Subscribe to Maiden Mother Matriarch here to listen to full extended episodes: louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Katherine Dee, tech reporter and historian of the internet. We spoke about a recent New York Times article ('They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.') on psychosis induced by ChatGPT, and compared this phenomenon with historic cases of new communication technologies causing outbreaks of mental illness.

In…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Alex Kaschuta, creator of The Garden of Earthly Delights Substack. We spoke about why modern urbanites are so attracted to tradlife, but why (what I call ) unilateral tradlife is so difficult. We also spoke about the peculiarity of Anglo culture from an Eastern European perspective, whether the Right is really capable of good governanc…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode I spoke with Ed West about the 'flagging' phenomenon in Britain: the government's inability to respond to it, why it's emerged right now, and whether it's just a show or patriotism or a sign of something more sinister. We also spoke about 'colourblind casting' in British historical dramas, the state of Britain's international reput…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guests today are Ute Heggen and Emma Thomas, two women whose lives have been deeply impacted by the men in their lives choosing to transition. Ute runs the YouTube channel @UteHeggenTranswidowHeals, and has also authored a memoir titled 'In the Curated Woods.' Emma is founder of the campaign group Children of Transitioners.

We spoke about Emma and Ute…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode I spoke about Freya India about the modern pathologisation of personality traits – including virtues like "people pleasing" – and whether a better understanding of psychological sex differences might encourage young people to be less vexed about common psychological phenomena like rumination. We also spoke about parasocial relation…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Kate Phelan, a Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, and the author of a new book titled 'Feminism, Defeated.'

We spoke about how feminism has changed over the past half century, from the radicalism of the Second Wave to the absorption of feminism into the progressive omnicause.

In …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, I spoke with Meghan Murphy about the phenomenon of female teachers – typically young and attractive – having sexual relationships with their young male students. Plus we spoke about women behaving like 'female chauvinist pigs', my theory of nonce radar, and whether or not men are now more interested in dating older women. We discu…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Amy Alkon, science reporter and author of a new book titled 'Going Menopostal: What You (and Your Doctor) Need to Know About the Real Science of Menopause and Perimenopause.' We spoke about menopause: what it is, the symptoms, treatment options, and why Amy believes that most menopausal women are being terribly misserved by their docto…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, Nina Power and I spoke about '1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story', a new documentary on Channel 4, as well as Kathleen Stock's recent essay for UnHerd about the documentary. Is Bonnie Blue the perfect capitalist? An artist? A demon? A psychopath? A neo-religious symbol? All of the above?

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the writer and cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins. She has previously written books on museums and the moral questions raised by exhibiting or retaining certain artefacts, in that spirit she is also a trustee of the British Museum, and a radio presenter, including of the BBC Radio 4 series 'The History of Secrecy.' Her latest book is '…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, Rob Henderson and I spoke about Sydney Sweeney's ad for American Eagle – why has it been so controversial? What does the response tell us about intrasexual competition? Does this indicate a political pivot in popular culture? And why did so many companies embrace the spirit of 2020 in the first place?

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the writer and psychotherapist Phyllis Chesler. Her bestselling book, 'Women and Madness', published in 1972, was one of the most influential books of the second wave. She has spent a lifetime writing about and campaigning on feminist issues including honour killings, the surrogacy industry, child custody, and the treatment of women in…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, Mary and I spoke about why thinking about death makes people want to have children, climate change anxiety, the post-literate future, the new vigilante groups springing up in Britain, and why Britain’s upper classes are suffering from post-colonial grief

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Ross Douthat, columnist at The New York Times and author of many books, including a new one titled 'Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious.'

We spoke about near death experiences, the mystery of the Turin Shroud, how mystical experiences change people (if at all), the challenge of detecting the presence of the Holy Spirit, and what …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 narratives around ter…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.

The MMM podcast can also be…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 dress reveals (if…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Middle Ages, the…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, I spoke with Rob Henderson about expensive weddings, the unexpected consequences of abortion decriminalisation, whether or not hunter gatherers are happier than modern Westerners, and why we should all consider giving up mirrors next Lent.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 their testimo…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, I spoke with philosopher Nina Power about the new laws on abortion and assisted suicide passed in the House of Commons this week, and what they tell us about the state of modern Britain.

Please go to LouisePerry.Substack.com to listen to the full episode.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 project. We also …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 psychopathology, part…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 terrible failings wi…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, having been a s…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Marlon West, father to Scarlett, a young woman who was abused by a rape gang operating in the Greater Manchester area when she was an adolescent and teenager. Marlon and Scarlett are both now campaigning for a national inquiry.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 affecting the marri…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 controversial history of …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 face in polici…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 species, homosexua…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 practices like l…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Julie's youthful …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 of a politic…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Darel E. Paul, Professor of Political Science at Williams College, and a specialist in the study of elite ideologies in the West. We spoke today about one such elite ideology: the LGBT rights movement, which has achieved a great deal since the early 1990s, when Americans still mostly expressed hostility to homosexuality. We discussed D…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Stone Age Herbalist – dissident anthropologist, author of the Grey Goose Chronicles on Substack, and also of several books, including a new one titled 'Demon Bats & Cocaine Mummies.' We spoke about two hunter gatherer groups that could be regarded as atheistic: the Pirahã of the Amazon, and the Comanche of North America. Do these examp…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Spencer Klavan, host of the Young Heretics podcast, associate editor of The Claremont Review of Books, and author of a new book titled 'Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science Through Faith.' We spoke about the potential challenge that Darwinism poses to Christianity, why nihilism is a very ancient problem, whether …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Lyman Stone, research fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and specialist in the sociology of fertility. We spoke about the best urban design for families, whether 'intensive parenting' has really become more common, the true effects of the Pill on fertility rates, how income and fertility are linked for men and women, and why it…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Rod Dreher, Substack writer and author of many books, including a new title 'Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age.' We spoke about UFOs as a religious phenomenon, why Medieval peasants would be better placed to understand AI than we are, why young women are increasingly attracted to the occult, and whether men…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maiden Mother Matriarch is brought to you by Qualia, the advanced nutrition brand that’s raising the bar on what’s possible in the world of human longevity and health optimisation. For anyone struggling with tiredness, low energy, lack of focus, aches and pains associated with ageing, or if you’re just generally feeling run down, Qualia’s products can h…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Dr Lawrence Newport, head of the campaigning organisation Crush Crime and also co-founder of the political movement Looking for Growth. We spoke about why the vast majority of crime goes unpunished in Britain, why forensic technology is under-utilised, the elite belief that worrying about crime is low status, and why rehabilitation sho…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Katy Faust, Founder and President of Them Before Us, a global children’s rights nonprofit, and the author of books including 'Pro-Child Politics: Why Every Cultural, Economic, and National Issue Is a Matter of Justice for Children' and 'Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City: Teaching Historical, Economic, and Biological Truth in a W…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, the bestselling author of books including 'Infidel', 'Heretic', and 'Prey', and also the founder and editor of Restoration, a new publication which seeks to rebuild the West's broken institutions.

We spoke about why Ayaan was so thrilled at Trump's victory, the i…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Brook Urick, the author of Wink Wink Nudge Nudge, a book that exposes the secrets of the sugar baby industry. Brook spoke to me about her experiences as a sugar baby, and also as a PR agent for the website Seeking Arrangements. We discussed the false way in which the industry is represented, the tricks used to lure young women into bec…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Connor Tomlinson of Courage.Media. We spoke about Connor's investigations into the advertising used by smuggling gangs featuring images of drunk British women, why mass immigration is a feminist issue, the efforts by the British government to control public opinion, and the importance of middle class snobbery in understanding British p…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the writer and journalist Meghan Murphy. We spoke about Meghan's political evolution, from Left wing radical feminist, to a Trump supporter who is ambivalent about the 'feminist' label. We also spoke about porn culture, Lily Phillips, and why men send dick pics.

MMM is sponsored by 321 - a new online introduction to Christianity, presen…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Andrea Heinz, sex trade survivor and campaigner. Andrea is the co-author of 'When Men Buy Sex: Who Really Pays?: Canadian Stories of Exploitation, Survival, and Advocacy', which was published last year. She also developed the InSTEP model, designed to help professionals working with women in the sex industry, and is the co-host of the …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Arik Brückner, Co-Founder & CEO of CHOICE, a new platform for "paid companionship and intimacy services." Arik's goal is to create the safest possible platform for the buying and selling of intimacy of all kinds. We debated the ethics of paid sex, the paternalist versus libertarian worldviews, and whether or not transactional relations…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We spoke about the academic literature on modern civil wars, why Britain is particularly vulnerable, the importance of the rural/urban divide, the vulnerability of British infrastructure, and the errors currently being made by the British government.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

‘My guest today is Nina Power – philosopher, writer, and author of books including 'What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents.'

We spoke about iconoclasm, pornography, propaganda, and the power of political images.’

MMM is sponsored by 321 - a new online introduction to Christianity, presented by former MMM guest Glen Scrivener. Check it out for …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Poppy Coburn, assistant comment editor at The Telegraph. We spoke about the existential challenge that Rotherham presents to the British establishment, the similarities with the Catholic sex abuse scandal, the misogyny directed specifically at white women, and the divide among gender critical feminists in Britain.

MMM is sponsored by 32…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Johann Kurtz, pseudonymous author of the 'Becoming Noble' Substack. We spoke about the long history of falling fertility rates, and particularly about the role of status in explaining the phenomenon.

MMM is sponsored by 321 - a new online introduction to Christianity, presented by former MMM guest Glen Scrivener. Check it out for free a…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Meghan Daum, host of 'The Unspeakable' podcast, co-host of 'A Special Place in Hell' with Sarah Haider, and creator of 'The Unspeakeasy', a community for free-thinking women from everywhere on the political spectrum can talk honestly about complex issues. We spoke about why Meghan hates the term 'childfree', why matchmaking systems hav…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Ed West, author of 'The Wrong Side of History' on Substack, and of books including 'The Diversity Illusion: What We Got Wrong about Immigration and How to Set It Right' and 'Tory Boy: Memoirs of the Last Conservative.' We spoke about Rotherham: why it happened, the ongoing political fallout, and the future of multiracial Britain.

MMM is…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is John Tosh, Professor Emeritus of History at Roehampton University and the author of many books, including 'A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England' and 'Masculinities in Politics and War: gendering modern history.' We spoke about the effect that the industrial revolution had on British masculinity, in …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'll be re-releasing six episodes from the early days of the podcast over the course of my maternity leave. This month, my archived interview is with Professor Michael Bailey, author of the (somewhat infamous) book The Man Who Would Be Queen. We spoke about Michael’s research on sexual orientation, including autogynephilia, and the attempts to cancel hi…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Paul Seabright, Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse and the author of a new book 'The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People.' We spoke about what membership of a religious community offers people, and why it isn't necessarily irrational for poor people to give a large proportion of their i…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Wendy Kline, Historian of Medicine at Purdue University and author of books including 'Exposed: The Hidden History of the Pelvic Exam', 'Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth', and 'Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the Second Wave.' We spoke about the rise of gynaecology and obstetrics as medical di…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Paul Morland, Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and the author of ‘The Human Tide,’ ’Tomorrow’s People,’ and most recently ‘No One Left.’ We spoke about global fertility trends, pronatalism and policy interventions that could help solve declining birth rates, and the role of culture and technology in fertility…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'll be re-releasing six episodes from the early days of the podcast over the course of my maternity leave. This month, my archived interview is with the writer and archeologist Stone Age Herbalist, author of the Grey Goose Chronicles substack, and also the book Berserkers, Cannibals & Shamans: Essays in Dissident Anthropology. Plus a new collection of …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Michaeleen Doucleff, correspondent for NPR radio and author of the bestselling book 'Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans.' We spoke about the ways in which Western parenting radically diverges from the human norm, why parenting books are a product of atomis…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Joshua Dale, professor at Chuo University in Tokyo and author of 'Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Changed the World'. We spoke about the historical roots of the Japanese passion for cuteness, the differences in pre-modern attitudes towards children in Japan and Europe, the role of domestication syndrome in the developme…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Roanne van Voorst – anthropologist, futurist, assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, and author of 'Six in a Bed: The Future of Love.'

We spoke about sex robots, including Roanne's chilling encounter at a sex robot brothel in Vienna. We also spoke about other kinds of romantic virtual relationships with AI that are becomin…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'll be re-releasing six episodes from the early days of the podcast over the course of my maternity leave. This month, my archived interview is with Dr Abigail Favale, a writer and professor in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. She has an academic background in feminist literary criticism, and now writes and teaches…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is David Goodhart, founder of Prospect magazine and Head of Demography, Immigration & Integration at Policy Exchange. David's new book, 'The Care Dilemma: Caring Enough in the Age of Sex Equality,' is the final instalment of a trilogy of books on class, economics, and the family that began with 'The Road to Somewhere' and 'Head Hand Heart…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Mike Israetel, bodybuilding and fitness consultant, former Professor of Nutrition and Sport Science, and co-founder of Renaissance Periodization. We spoke about why women benefit from lifting heavy weights even more than men do in terms of metabolic health, longevity, bone density, and day-to-day living. Will you risk getting bulky? Is…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Tracing Woodgrains, writer on Substack and (until recently) producer for the Blocked & Reported podcast. We spoke about Trace's life as an ex-Mormon. His family have been Mormons for seven generations and he was born and brought up in Utah. But he left the church as an adult, came out as gay, and is now married to a man. We discussed t…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Ray Blanchard, sexologist and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, particularly renowned for developing Blanchard's transsexualism typology and for his work on the fraternal birth order effect on male homosexuality. We spoke about the various possible causes of homosexuality for both men and women, whether or not the '…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'll be re-releasing six episodes from the early days of the podcast over the course of my maternity leave. This month, my archived interview is with Niccolo Soldo, political commentator and Substack author. We spoke about his Substack series on the early history of HIV/AIDS in America, including the political response of gay campaigners at the time, th…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Malcolm Collins: pronatalist campaigner, co-founder (along with his wife Simone) of the Collins Institute, and author of many books, including 'The Pragmatist's Guide to Crafting Religion.' We spoke about religion – why so many religions are haemorrhaging adherents, the elements that a religion needs in order to survive and spread, and…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Auron MacIntyre, columnist at The Blaze, host of 'The Auron MacIntyre Show', and author of 'The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies.' We spoke about what the events of 2020 revealed about our political system, why we don't really live in a democracy, and how the total state has come to supplant the family, the church,…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📰 Subscribe to Maiden Mother Matriarch here to listen to full extended episodes: louiseperry.substack.com My guest today is the writer and comedian Bridget Phetasy, author of the 'Beyond Parody' Substack, columnist at the Spectator World, and host of the 'Walk ins Welcome' podcast and 'Dumpster Fire' YouTube show. We spoke about Bridget's recent viral …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'll be re-releasing six episodes from the early days of the podcast over the course of my maternity leave. This month, my archived interview is with Jennifer Lahl, founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, Jennifer spent 25 years working as a paediatric critical care nurse, a hospital administrator, and a senior-level nursi…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Ross Douthat, columnist at the New York Times, and author of books including 'Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics' and 'The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success.' We spoke about whether polyamory is drifting back towards a more traditional model, the nature of repaganisation in relation to euthana…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Amy Wax, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Amy is both a legal scholar and medical scholar, with dual specialties in both neurology and social welfare law. 

We spoke today about the feminisation of public life, particularly of the academy, and debated whether or not we can design mixed-sex institutions to su…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Paul Kingsnorth, author of The Abbey of Misrule Substack, and of many books, including  'Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist.'

We spoke about Paul's journey from environmentalism to Orthodox Christianity, the relationship between Christian millenarianism and the fear of civilizational collapse, the attraction of zombie apocalyp…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Tania Reynolds, Assistant Professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico. We started off by speaking about one of Tania's main areas of interest: female friendships. What do women look for in a potential friend? How do women both support and undermine other women? And why do they prefer friends who are less beautiful than them…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Tammy Peterson, wife to Jordan Peterson and host of The Tammy Peterson Podcast. We spoke about Tammy's attitude towards Christianity while she was growing up, the advantages of traditional gender roles, the loss of domestic rituals, and the joy of grandchildren.

In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about how Tammy was brought …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Katharine Birbalsingh, head of the Michaela School in London, and famously described in the media as "Britain's strictest headmistress." We spoke about Michaela's unique approach to education and discipline, the opposition it has faced since its inception, and the recent legal case concerning a Muslim student who challenged the school'…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the psychologist and writer Rob Kurzban, co-author of the Living Fossils substack, and also the author of books including 'Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind' and 'The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit It.' We spoke about why modern parentin…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Dr Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist from the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and the author of two books that we spoke about today: 'The Life of Dad: The Making of a Modern Father' and 'Why We Love: The Definitive Guide to Our Most Fundamental Need.' We spoke about why maternal love is the …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Catherine Salmon, Professor of Psychology at the University of Redlands. We spoke about sibling conflict, evolutionary explanations for anorexia, and slash fiction. 

In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about what porn reveals about male and female sexuality, Be warned, the last 20 minutes are very much not suitable for childre…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the journalist Lisa Selin Davis, author of a new book titled 'Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead.' We spoke about the history of the American suburbs, the legacy of Betty Friedan, and the social costs of the mass influx of middle class women into the labour market.

In the extended part of the episode we also sp…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Paul Bloom, Professor Emeritus of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and the author of many books, including 'Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil', 'Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion', and 'Psych: The Story of the Human Mind.'

We spoke about h…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Gareth Roberts – a screenwriter, best known for his work on Doctor Who, and also an author, including of a new book titled 'Gay Shame: The Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia.'

We spoke about why there are now so many women on Grindr, the weird side of female sexuality, and how gay men have responded to the rise of trans acti…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is James Orr, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge and the UK Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation.

We spoke about James' work in organising the NatCon UK conference, why the Conservative Party is going to do so badly at the general election, and whether or not the 1960s should be understood as a …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Elizabeth Oldfield, host of 'The Sacred' podcast and author of a new book, 'Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times.'  We spoke about the attraction of charismatic Christianity, the ways in which Christianity works in both a feminine and a masculine register, and the joys and challenges of living in intentional communities.…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Colette Colfer – writer, poet, and lecturer in world religions. We spoke about the parallels between transgenderism (and progressivism) and various religions around the world, including Christianity. In the extended section, we also spoke in more detail about Ireland: why has the country secularised so quickly, and why has it embraced …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Bryan Caplan, professor of economics at George Mason University and the author of many books, including his new book 'You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism.'

We spoke about the advantages of being a non-conformist, whether or not I – personally – am a non-conformist, and why Bryan thinks that education is overrated. 

In the …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Christopher Caldwell, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, contributing editor to the Claremont Review of Books, and author of 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West' and 'The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.'

We spoke about the recent European elections, particularly the success of …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Alex DatePsych, a researcher in behavioural science with a particular interest in sex and relationships. We spoke about everything from divorce to cheating to slut shaming to age gaps and more. 

In the extended version of the episode, we spoke in particular about what men and women find physically attractive in the opposite sex. 

MMM is …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the historian Peter Parker, editor of a new two-part series of books titled 'Some Men in London', an anthology of sources written between 1945 and 1967 on gay life in London. 

We spoke about the perception at the time that homosexuality was rising exponentially in the postwar period, the relationship between the military and male prosti…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the historian Nicola Tallis, author of five books about the Tudors, including the newly published 'Young Elizabeth: Princess, Prisoner, Queen.' We spoke about Elizabeth I's early life, including the political challenges of marriage for the Tudor women, religious conflict, the importance of sexual reputation, and why the Tudors remain s…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My latest guest is Mary Harrington, the original reactionary feminist. We spoke about modernity and relationships between men and women, including the perils of technology, the conflicted position of women on the Right, and the possibility of apocalypse. 

MMM is sponsored by 321 - a new online introduction to Christianity, presented by former MMM guest G…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham and author of a new book, 'Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution.' We spoke about whether or not wokeness is really an elite phenomenon and why young women have moved to the Left in recent years. In the extended part of the episode, we also spok…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the journalist Nellie Bowles – columnist at the Free Press, and author of the new book 'Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History.' We spoke about Nellie's journey from being an orthodox liberal journalist at The New York Times in 2020, to becoming an apostate who lost her faith in progressive politics after reporting on the harm done by its extremists. We spoke about homelessness, drug decriminalization, the defund the police movement, and – in the extended section – transgenderism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Tom Holland, co-host of the Rest is History podcast, and author of many books, including 'Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind.'

We spoke about the new book that Tom is working on, focused on the ideological revolution of the 1960s, which he compares to a second Reformation. He argues that the current culture wars are in fact theol…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Helen Roy, fellow at the Claremont Institute, contributing editor at the American Mind, host of the 'Girlboss, Interrupted' podcast, and mother of three under three. We spoke about the spiritual loss that comes with the demise of single sex spaces and the courage that motherhood demands. In the extended part of the episode, we also spo…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Coleen T. Murphy, Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton, and also the director of Princeton's Laboratory for Aging Research. Her new book is titled 'How We Age: The Science of Longevity.' We spoke about why women live longer than men, what centenarians seem to have in common with one another, why eunuchs may live longer than othe…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Cassie Jaye, a filmmaker best known for the hugely controversial 2016 documentary 'The Red Pill' which followed Cassie's journey from feminism to becoming (partially) persuaded by men's rights activism. We spoke about how she feels about the film – and about MRAs – eight years on.

In the extended part of the episode, we also spoke about…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stephen Shaw is the writer, director & producer of the documentary 'Birthgap - Childless World.' We spoke about why falling birth rates are (almost) an international phenomenon, why most childlessness is unplanned, and the role of the Pill in social norms that lead to falling fertility. 

In the extended version of the episode, we spoke about why mass imm…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge. We spoke about a whole range of issues that Miriam is interested in: assisted dying, transgenderism, egg freezing, surrogacy, pronatalism, and childcare.

In the extended part of the episode, we also spoke about how Miriam's Christianity influences her work, and the gap betwe…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and author of the new book 'Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization.'

We spoke about why a third of Gen Z Americans are likely to never marry, the so-call…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Ed West, journalist, author, and the writer of 'The Wrong Side is History' Substack. We spoke about Ed's most popular Substack post to date, 'Why Children of Men is really happening', the political and economic problems Britain is currently experiencing, and the likelihood of British professionals emigrating en masse to places like Ame…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Tracy Vaillancourt, professor in the Faculty of Education and the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, and also the Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention. We spoke about aggression among teenage girls, how boys and girls differ in their aggressive tactics, why women dislike overt sexin…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the author, journalist, and veteran women's rights campaigner Julie Bindel. We spoke about the feminist sex wars of the 1980s, the clashes between gay men and lesbians over the years, and the ongoing class conflicts within feminism.

In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about the child prostitution gangs in cities like Rotherha…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Stephen Blackwood, philosopher and president of Ralston College, a new liberal arts college in Savannah, Georgia. We spoke about the failings of modern architecture, the West's spiritual crisis following the Second World War, and the veneration of subversion for the sake of subversion. 

In the extended part of the episode, we spoke abou…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Hannah Barnes, investigative journalist, associate editor at the New Statesman, and author of 'Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children.' We spoke about the findings of the Cass Review, what exactly went wrong at the Tavistock, and why the situation in America is even worse when it …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Alex Kaschuta, host of the podcast 'Subversive.' 

We spoke about the online gender wars, how the internet encourages dysfunctional relationships offline, and how we should choose our children's peer groups in an effort to protect them from these effects. 

In the extended version of the episode, we also spoke about how our own politics ha…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Rob Henderson – academic, writer, and author of a new book 'Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.' We spoke about whether sexual liberation counts as a luxury belief and why elites tend to talk the talk on 1960s ideology, but actually live like the 1950s ideal. In the extended version of the episode we also spoke…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the writer and expert on online culture Katherine Dee, also known as Default Friend. We spoke about why TikTok isn't as bad as everyone thinks, how the internet is warping women's sexuality, and what journalists misunderstand about femcels (that is, female incels). 

In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about whether elite polit…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist, associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, and author of many books, including (most recently) 'Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech'. 

We spoke about how consumerist culture limits fertility, the status games that parents play with their children, how the blank slate view of human nature makes parenting more difficult, and why it's adaptive to lie to ourselves about our true motivations.  

In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about whether polyamory only works for a subset of the elite, and debated the merits of its normalisation. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Irish Times columnist Finn McRedmond. We spoke about the recent referendum in Ireland on the constitutional definitions of marriage and motherhood, as well as previous referendums on abortion and same sex marriage. How liberalised and secularised has Ireland really become?

In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about the recent violent unrest in response to mass immigration, and the role of class in contemporary Irish politics.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. In this episode we spoke about... the future of humanity! In particular, the role of falling birth rates in stifling innovation, and what this means for a possible high tech future. In short, i…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Heather Heying – evolutionary biologist, co-host (with her husband Bret Weistein) of the Darkhorse podcast, and also the co-author of 'A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life.'

We mostly spoke about babies! On the modern guidance on breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and sleep training, and th…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Catherine Pakaluk, Director of Social Research and Associate Professor at the Catholic University of America, and the author of a new book titled 'Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth.' 

'Hannah's Children' is based around interviews with 55 American women who have both been to university, and have also had five…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the journalist Abigail Shrier, author of the bestselling 'Irreversible Damage', and now a new book – 'Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up.' We spoke about the harmful side effects of therapy, particularly for children, whether the rise of therapy culture is a product of family disintegration, and why girls from liberal families have been worst affected by the rise in teenage mental illness.

In the extended part of the episode, we also spoke about gentle parenting and why parenting gurus are so attractive.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, and the author of the 2021 book 'Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality.'

We spoke today about fan fiction, a topic that Helen has been researching for many years. Why are so many girls and young women obsessed with fanfic? Why does it so often feature romantic relationships between men? And why has it become much more sexually explicit in recent years? 

In the extended part of the episode we spoke about the impact that fanfic is having on our sexual culture and its role in encouraging young women to identify as trans or non-binary. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Dr. Avital Hazony Levi, a postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University who specialises in philosophy and the study of the Hebrew Bible. We spoke about why Israel has the highest birth rate in the developed world, motherhood in the Bible, the rejection of biological family in the kibbutz movement, and traditional Jewish matchmaking. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Rakib Ehsan, writer, researcher, and author of 'Beyond Grievance: What the Left gets wrong about ethnic minorities.' 

We started by speaking about family breakdown as a cause of inequality across ethnic groups, and the enormous differences in economic success between different ethnic minorities in Britain, and the tension that generates…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cory Clark is a behavioural scientist, the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Adversarial Collaboration Research Center at University of Pennsylvania, and a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department.

We started by discussing Cory's research on how average psychological sex differences between men and women could explain the changes to academic …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Lane Scott, Catholic homeschooling mother of five, writer, and author of the Matriarch Goals Substack. We spoke about Lane's beautiful essay for the American Mind, titled 'The Mother's Gauntlet', on the challenges stay-at-home mothers face in forging an alternative path for their families. We also spoke about the tradwife social media …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Diane Purkiss, Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and author of many books, including 'Fairies and Fairy Stories', 'The Witch in History', and 'English Food: A People's History.'

We spoke about witches and fairies in British folklore, and in particular why these stories are so often associated with childbirth, children, and motherhood. We also spoke about the psychological and practical functions of these stories, and why they are so culturally sticky. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Kathleen Stock – philosopher, author of 'Material Girls', co-director of 'The Lesbian Project', and co-host (with Julie Bindel) of the podcast of the same name. 

I tried my best to persuade Kathleen to become a reactionary feminist, but we disagreed on several points: the merits of marriage, the low status attached to motherhood, and whether modern people are just too invested in the status quo. In the extended part of the episode we debated whether or not women should be soldiers and men should be nannies. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Katie Herzog, journalist and host of the Blocked and Reported podcast. We spoke about why so many women have stopped identifying as lesbians and started identifying as non-binary and bisexual, about 'passing privilege' and social attitudes towards tomboys, and I also expounded on my theory of 'nonce radar.' In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about the impact that AIDS had on gay activism, the 'gays against groomers' phenomenon, and why drag queen story hour is now such a big deal in the UK.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the journalist and editor Ruby Warrington, author of the new book 'Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood.' We spoke about why women are increasingly unlikely to have children, the grey area between voluntary and involuntary childlessness, and why we generally pay so much less attention to men who don't have children.

In the extended version of the episode we also spoke about the political and economic consequences of falling birth rates.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Sall Grover, former screenwriter turned app developer, now at the centre of a legal battle titled (I kid you not) Tickle vs. Giggle. Sall explains the background to the case, why it's so important to sex-based rights in Australia, and what is motivating the bizarrely aggressive trans activists who have pursued her through the courts.

MMM is sponsored by 321 - a new online introduction to Christianity, presented by former MMM guest Glen Scrivener. Check it out for free at 321course.com/MMM. Just enter your email, choose a password and you’re in — there’s no spam and no fees.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Erica Komisar: psychoanalyst, parent coach, and author of 'Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters' and 'Chicken Little the Sky Isn't Falling: Raising Resilient Adolescents in the New Age of Anxiety.'

In the first part of the episode, we spoke about the importance of the early years, including the role …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Freya India, author of the GIRLS Substack. We discussed the many ways in which online culture is affecting young women and girls – everything from the glamorisation of SSRIs, to the trend for a style of cyborg beauty that looks disturbing offline but great on a screen.

In the extended version of the episode, we spoke about the perverse ways in which online beauty trends actually make women less attractive to men, and how status games influence this phenomenon.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Spencer Klavan – classicist, Associate Editor at the Claremont Institute, Features Editor at the American Mind, host of the Young Heretics podcast, and the author of How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises. We spoke about how the classical worldview differs from the modern one, including on questions of enchantment: magic, angels, demons, all of it! In the extended version of the episode we also spoke about classical and Christian perspectives on sexuality and gender, and what we moderns can learn from these ancient ideas.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Sophie Windsor (née Winkleman), British actress, comedian, and star of the cult British TV classic 'Peep Show.' We spoke about Sophie's campaign to get screens out of schools, and for greater regulation of children's access to smartphones, and particularly online porn. In the extended version of the episode we also spoke about the effect that #MeToo has had on the acting industry, the awkwardness of working with intimacy coordinators, and why it's a bad thing that sex scenes in film and TV have become so much more explicit. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the journalist Emily Jashinsky, culture editor at The Federalist, and senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum. We spoke about the fallout from the Dobbs decision, Republican attitudes towards pronatalist policy, and whether or not Donald Trump is representative of a post-Christian future for the American Right. 

In the extended v…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Razib Khan, the scientist, writer, co-founder of biotech company GenRAIT, and the author of the Unsupervised Learning Substack. We spoke about the politics of population genetics: everything from assortative mating and cognitive stratification, to the social and political consequences of 23AndMe.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Rachael Wong, CEO of Women's Forum Australia and an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia. We spoke about a whole host of legal issues of concern to Australian feminists right now: self-ID, surrogacy, prostitution, pornography, and more. We also spoke about why Australia – and New Zealand even more so – seems to be so much more extreme on progressive issues than other parts of the Anglosphere, and the extent to which it is the law, rather than culture, that is driving that.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The MMM podcast can also be found on Apple, Spotify, and all other streaming platforms: https://linktr.ee/maidenmothermatriarch

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Professor Gad Saad, evolutionary psychologist and author of 'The Parasitic Mind' and 'The Saad Truth About Happiness.' In the first part of the episode we spoke about psychological sex differences, particularly in relation to mental illnesses including eating disorders, depression, suicidal ideation, and OCD. In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about antisemitism through an evolutionary psychology lens, as well as honour cultures, victim cultures, and the failures of cultural relativism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Alex Byrne, Professor of Philosophy at MIT and author of a new book, Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions. We spoke about the efforts to get Alex's book cancelled, and the meltdowns over transgenderism within feminist philosophy. In the extended part of the episode we also spoke about the feminisation of academia, and why no one within trans activist circles wants to talk about autogynephilia.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the author, evangelist, and podcaster Glen Scrivener, author of The Air We Breathe, and co-host of the Speak Life podcast and also a new podcast titled Post Christianity? We spoke about Ayaan Hirsi Ali's conversion and the responses to it, about the conflict between progressivism and Christianity on abortion and euthanasia, and – in the extended part of the episode – about the influence that Jordan Peterson has had on the church. The MMM podcast can also be found on Apple, Spotify, and all other streaming platforms: https://linktr.ee/maidenmothermatriarch

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is British journalist Poppy Coburn, an opinion editor at the Telegraph and also at the Conservative Reader. We spoke about Poppy's investigations into the so-called 'charity industrial complex' and what that tells us about how power really operates in contemporary Britain. We also spoke about the emergence of a new Right wing sensibility among zoomers, and how that will manifest itself long-term in politics. 

In the extended part of the episode we spoke about the failure of conservatives to contend with Islamism, and what impact the attack of 7th October is likely to have on British politics. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is the writer and archeologist Stone Age Herbalist, author of the Grey Goose Chronicles substack, and also the book Berserkers, Cannibals & Shamans: Essays in Dissident Anthropology. 

We started with a discussion of the mystery of the paleolithic Venus figurines: protective amulets, matriarchal symbols, pornographic objects? No one knows for certain what they were intended for, but these objects have been the focus of intense interest ever since their discovery in the nineteenth century. 

In the extended part of the episode we moved on to an entirely different time and place: contemporary Ghana. Specifically, Ghanaian ideas about witchcraft, and indeed Subsaharan African ideas about witchcraft more generally. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“How much do you think skeptics of the sexual revolution ought to stress the importance of personal responsibility, and to what extent should we discriminate between men and women while doing so? When trying to convince my male friends to give up porn, for example, I find that the ‘limbic capitalism’ argument is an amusing diversion, but it’s more persuasive to tell them that they’ve got a responsibility to stop exploiting vulnerable young women, that the shame of what they’re enjoying would be obvious to them if the woman on the screen were someone they cherished and respected and wanted the best for - in other words, by paying them the compliment of regarding them as moral agents capable of making better choices. I feel squeamish about invoking the same principle of personal responsibility when it comes to female participants in the sexual revolution, and victim-blaming is a real and deplorable thing, but I also feel that this squeamishness - which I sense you share - needs a limiting principle. Do you agree? And if so, what do you think it is?”

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Dr Ben Lewis, a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Leeds University who specialises in German intellectual history. On the podcast we talk about Ben’s book Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline - once an influential thinker who is now having a renaissance. We also discuss Spengler’s support for a civilisational cycles model of history as oppose to the progressive model of history and some of Spengler’s predictions for the 20th and 21st century which have been largely vindicated. In the extended version of the episode we look at Spengler's relevance to politics today. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is author Rachel Shteir. On the podcast we talked about her new book: Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter who wrote Feminine Mystique - an iconic book in 1963 when it was first published. Betty Friedan was a divisive and crucial figure during the era of second wave feminism. In the extended episode we also discuss Betty Friedan’s clash with Phyllis Schlafly - the great anti-feminist of the era. For extended episodes, bonus episodes and the MMM chat community go to louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Geoff Shullenberger, an academic and managing editor at Compact Magazine. On the podcast we discussed Geoff’s essay about Bronze Age Pervert (BAP), a pseudonym internet personality associated with the manosphere. In the extended episode we discussed BAP’s writing on race, intelligence and sexual politics. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes and the MMM chat community on louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest is Eliza Mondegreen, a graduate student who specialises in transgenderism, especially online trans communities. We spoke about possible parallels between gender ideology and other psychiatric phenomena and the online trends surrounding gender and transitioning.

In the extended episode we discussed Eliza’s undercover work visiting conferences for clinicians and speaking to some gender-affirming care patients. You can find the extended episode, bonus episodes and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Inez Stepman, she's a journalist and host of the podcast High Noon. She is also a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forum. On the podcast we discuss why Inez won't call herself a feminist, despite her career promoting policy in the interests of women; we discussed why she believes the term ‘feminist’ carries a lot of neg…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Justin Brierley, a writer, broadcaster and author of a new book The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God. On the podcast we spoke about the rise and fall of new atheism; the role of religion in politics and in the extended episode we spoke about the relationship between new atheism and other religions particularly Islam. To find the extended episode, bonus episodes and the MMM chat community go to louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest this week is Aaron Sibarium, he is a writer and reporter at the Washington Free Beacon. On the podcast we talked about sexual disenchantment and the difficulty in rejecting sexual morality of the past yet why Aaron won’t fully embrace the ‘trad’ position instead. In the extended episode Aaron spoke about his critique of the right, and its relationship with women. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes and the MMM chat community on louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Holly Lawford-Smith, a political philosopher and professor at the University of Melbourne. Her book Gender-Critical Feminism was published last year and caused some controversy at the time. Holly has also most recently publish a book Sex Matters: Essays on Gender-Critical philosophy. On the podcast we discussed gender-critical feminism and other kinds of feminist theory; whether or not ‘TERF’ is a slur, and in the extended episode we debated whether or not differences between men and women are innate or socialised. To listen to the extended version of this esisode, go to louiseperry.substack.com, where you can also find bonus episodes and the MMM chat community.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peachy Keenan is a columnist at The American Mind and a ‘domestic extremist’. Her latest book, Domestic Extremist: a Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War, is all about how she went from being a progressive to a domestic extremist - i.e. an extremely domestic mother of five. We spoke about antinatalism and Peachy's journey away from being a progressive. In the extended version of this episode we also spoke about the online Right, in particular Bronze Age Pervert, and Peachy’s view of the term 'reactionary feminist' To listen to the extended episode, bonus episodes and the MMM chat community go to louiseperry.substack.com.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Erika Bachiochi is an American legal scholar and fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She currently serves as the director of The Wollstonecraft Project at the Abigail Adams Institute, where she is a senior fellow. On the podcast, Erika talks about her latest book The Rights of Women which looks at Mary Wollstonecraft and her legacy on many th…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vaishnavi Sundar is an Indian filmmaker who set up Limesoda Films. Her most recent work was a film called Dysphoric - why women are choosing to identify as trans in India and across the world. On the podcast we discussed Transgenderism in India and the role of the Hijra; the importance of homophobia in understanding this phenomenon and why so many India…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest this week is Niccolo Soldo, a writer who has authored a series on the early history of HIV/AIDs in America. This podcast is audio-only and behind a paywall due to the explicit nature of the discussion. To listen to episode in full you can find it on my Substack - louiseperry.substack.com

The MMM podcasts can also be found on Apple, Spotify, and…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Morland is an associate research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a demographer and the author of his most recent book – Tomorrow’s People. On the podcast we spoke about how demography has influenced human history, how it is most likely to influence human history in the coming centuries, and the problem of birth rates. To find the extended episodes and bonus episodes, go to my Substack, louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Jenni Nuttall is a lecturer in English at Exeter College, Oxford and author of the most recent book Mother Tongue: the history of women’s words. On the podcast we discussed the way in which women’s social history can be seen through language; some of the words like gossip, spinsters and testicles; and why Jenni believes that whilst women have made sl…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University and author of the book Don’t be a Feminist. On the podcast we debated just that. Bryan has a lot of criticism of feminism and what it means; why he finds feminism too negative; and why he thinks women aren't as agreeable as I suggest in my book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. Yo…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Katy Faust is the founder and director of the children’s rights organisation, Them Before Us. On the podcast, Katy talks about why her philosophy centres children's rights and the areas this impacts from reproductive technology, to childcare and adoption. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes, and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sign up – louiseperry.substack.com

In this week’s bonus episode, my husband and I respond to this question from Nicole:

Given the influence of evolutionary psychology/biology on your ideas, what is your general take on: (1) the current state of beauty pressures on women; (2) how the invention of photography, the rise of mass media, and the proliferation of pornography has influenced beauty norms; (3) how beauty affects sexual behavior in women (eg have heard that beautiful women need not be promiscuous, but in a post-Pill dating market promiscuity makes sense for less attractive women in order to have any mating opportunities); and (4) how the undeniable power of beauty affects, if it does, the arguments and advice in your book. Finally, do you think that your own attractiveness impacted the positive reception your book has gotten? My sense is that the same book written by an ugly woman would not be taken as seriously (which is of course a shame), but would love to hear your thoughts.

We cover vaginoplasty, ‘Turkey teeth’ (pictured above), and whether or not Kim K has had bum implants.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Abigail Favale is a writer and professor in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. She has an academic background in feminist literary criticism, and now writes and teaches on topics related to women and gender from a Catholic perspective. Abigail most recently authored The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory.

On the…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Jonathan Anomaly, he is the Director for the Centre of Philosophy, Politics and Economics in Quito, Ecuador and author of his most recent book, Creating Future People, the Ethics of Genetic Enhancement. On the podcast Jonathan spoke about genetic enhancement and why he cautiously welcomes some of the new technologies that allow people to select for certain traits. In the extended part of the podcast, Jonathan talks about some of the more sinister outcomes from genetic engineering; why he rejects the transhumanist label, and the role religion plays in the genetic enhancement debate. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes, and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Helen Dale is a lawyer, writer and novelist with an interest in the history of Roman law. We spoke about how Roman women were treated by legal system; how the Romans viewed issues like abortion; and we discussed whether we are becoming more Roman in our attitudes towards sexuality. In the extended part of the podcast, we talked about Helen's upbringing; why she decided to weigh into the gender critical debate and whether Helen would be best suited to a Roman or Christian world. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes, and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Ashley Colby, she's an environmental scientist and the co-founder of the Rizoma field school. On the podcast we discussed the perils of modern life for sustainability and Ashley's decision to uproot to Uruguay with her family and live in a homestead. In the extended part of the podcast, Ashley talks about the gendered division of labour in a homestead. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes, and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Rana Mitter, professor of history and politics of modern China at the University of Oxford and author of many books on China, which you can see below. On the podcast we talked about Chinese sexual politics and the consequences of the one-child policy; we discussed the use of dating apps in urban China, and why women will understate their educational credentials in order to land a husband. On the extended part of the podcast, Rana and I discussed gender non-conformity and the CCP's attitude to it.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inaya Folarin is a journalist, commentator and campaigner. She is also the Founder and Director of the The Equiano project, which began in 2020 to facilitate conversations around freedom, common humanity and universalism. On the podcast we talked about the diversity of views among British ethnic minorities; Inaya’s ‘anti-woke’ positions on race and we debated freedom of speech and liberalism. In the extended episode Inaya spoke about Nigerian sexual culture and why young women’s attitudes to having children are much more complicated now than they were before. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes, and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Sasha Ayad, she is a licensed professional councillor who works in private practice and has treated adolescents for over 10 years. Her work focuses on teens and young adults who struggle with issues of gender dysphoria and gender identity. She is also host of the Gender: A wider lens podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP62aWWtlZV1oVnbMhTRBcg

We spoke about Sasha’s early encounters of children going through gender distress; why some medical practitioners have been so quick to diagnose children with gender dysphoria and what parents can do to support their children. In the extended part we spoke about some of the negativity Sasha received from her work and we compared notes on powerlifting. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes, and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matt Goodwin is a professor of politics at the University of Kent and the author most recently of Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics. We spoke about what Matt describes as the ‘new elite’ and their enormous power over British institutions, why no one wants to be described as a member of this new elite, and why the Conservatives could yet be overtaken by a new populist Right party.

In the extended version of the podcast, we spoke about the downsides of meritocracy, elite contempt for the police, and why the ‘culture war’ is really a class war.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kellie Jay-Keen (also known as ‘Posie Parker’) is an iconic and divisive women’s rights campaigner. We spoke about the recent violent protests against her in New Zealand, the new political party she’s founding, and how she feels about being compared with Nigel Farage. In the extended version of the podcast, we spoke about the infighting in British feminism, Posie’s original billboard campaign, and her opinions on Mary Whitehouse.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Haider is a writer, political activist, and the founder of the advocacy group Ex-Muslims of North America. Sarah is also the co-host of the podcast A Special Place In Hell, alongside Meghan Daum. We spoke about motherhood and religion, the reality of living in a multi-generational household – and why, although it does ‘take a village’ to raise a child, most people don’t want to participate in the village.

In the extended version of the podcast, we spoke about why wokeness drives people mad, the need for courtship rituals, and why living in a ‘therapeutic society’ is incredibly annoying.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Jennifer Lahl, founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, Jennifer spent 25 years working as a paediatric critical care nurse, a hospital administrator, and a senior-level nursing manager. Now she works as a writer, campaigner, and documentary filmmaker, with films including Lines That Divide: The Great Stem Cell Debate, Eggsploitation, Anonymous Father’s Day, and Breeders: A Subclass of Women?, the last of which focuses on surrogacy. Her most recent film, Trans Mission: What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender? was released in June 2021. All of her films are available for free on the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network's YouTube channel.

We spoke about Jennifer’s anti-surrogacy campaigning work, how the industry has changed over time, the various health risks to both surrogate mothers and egg donors, and why businesses that offer ‘egg freezing packages’ definitely don’t have their employees’ best interests at heart.

In the extended version of the episode we spoke about the pushback Jennifer has had to her campaigning, the ethics of sperm donation, and some of the bizarre cases Jennifer has come across. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes, and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.com

Keeper - Meet the person who meets your standards with the world’s most advanced matchmaking solution. Driven by AI and relationship science. Guided by human care. Learn more at https://keeper.ai

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Simone Collins, co-founder with her husband Malcolm of pronatalist.org, an advocacy organisation whose mission is to empower families who choose to preserve and expand human cultural, ethnic, and genetic diversity. They are also the authors of ‘The Pragmatist’s Guide’ series of books, the most recent of which is The Pragmatist’s Guide …

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Mia Döring, the writer, psychotherapist, and author of Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery. We spoke about why sex positive feminism struggles to come to terms with the true nature of the sex industry, the public response to Mia’s book, and why consent is a useless framework for understanding prostitution.

In the extended part of the episode we spoke about how Mia got out of the sex trade, the hypocrisy of pro-decriminalisation organisations, and why it would be better to talk about ‘mutuality’ rather than ‘consent.’ You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes, and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Victoria Smith, journalist and author of a new book Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women. We spoke about botox, intergenerational conflict, and why Mumsnet is such a dangerous political force.

In the extended version, we also spoke about how ageing affects men’s status and why so many young women are onboard with trans activism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Professor Michael Bailey, author of the (somewhat infamous) book The Man Who Would Be Queen. We spoke about Michael’s research on sexual orientation, including autogynephilia, and the attempts to cancel him in response to his work. Be warned, this is quite an explicit episode!

In the extended version, we also spoke about the ethical qu…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest this week is Diana Fleischman, evolutionary psychologist, author, and one of the hosts of the Ideas Sleep Furiously podcast. We spoke about the effect that sex robots will have on the dating market, why men and women have affairs, why it’s so hard to talk about ‘mate value’, and why polyamory only works for a very small subset of people.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.