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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…
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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, 1 day 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, 5 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, 1 day 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, 5 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, 1 day 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, 5 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, 1 day 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…
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