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Economics transformed | Maiden Mother Matriarch 218
As the political economist Nicholas Eberstadt once put it, “a shrinking, aging world is something that we're intuitively, almost completely unprepare…
16 hours ago
The nature of Englishness | Maiden Mother Matriarch 217
This interview was actually recorded before Suella Braverman's most recent Question Time appearance, which sparked a public row over the question of …
1 week ago
The state-mandated girlfriend
In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, Rob Henderson and I discussed the new matchmaking scheme from the Singaporean government, which seems to …
1 week, 4 days ago
The Strong Gods | Maiden Mother Matriarch 216
In 2019, Rusty Reno – editor of First Things magazine – published ‘Return of the Strong Gods’, a book that argued that the postwar ideological order …
2 weeks ago
Can you be a right-wing feminist?
For this bonus episode Meghan Murphy and I discussed the recent Women’s Convention in Rochester, NY, which we both spoke at. This was a gathering of …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The internet subculture shaping the new world | Maiden Mother Matriarch 215
Just in the last few weeks, the issue of AI safety has suddenly broken into the political mainstream. What was once a fairly niche debate within the …
3 weeks ago
The chronic illness generation
In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, I spoke with The Telegraph’s Poppy Coburn about a piece she wrote recently on the rise of chronic illness…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
The upside of anxiety | Maiden Mother Matriarch 214
A life without pain sounds wonderful. It would also be fatal. Pain feels bad because it has a job: measuring damage to your body and motivating you t…
4 weeks ago
What would it take to stop the boats?
In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, I spoke with Ed West about the nativist protests in Dover and Portsmouth, and how the British government …
1 month ago
When hunter-gatherers collide with modernity | Maiden Mother Matriarch 213
Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for at least 65,000 years, surviving as hunter gatherers. 250 years ago, the British arrived, bringing with…
1 month ago