The Lucky Country? | Maiden Mother Matriarch 205
I’ve just moved to Australia. I wrote a column about our move in the Wall Street Journal, which was also published in The Australian, but I haven’t otherwise spoken about our reasoning, and a lot of l...
19 Jul 1h 12min
The loss of Ann Widdecombe
In this bonus episode, Ed West and I discussed the apparent murder of Ann Widdecombe, the role that she played in British public life, and the responses to this atrocity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
17 Jul 21min
The politics of the downwardly mobile class
In this bonus episode, Rob Henderson and I discussed a recent viral article in The Cut titled ‘It’s Hard to See My Parents Live So Lavishly While We’re Struggling’ and the broader issue of wealth ineq...
12 Jul 18min
Why we're still obsessed with the fall of Rome | Maiden Mother Matriarch 204
The empire that once controlled all or part of forty modern European, Asian, and African countries no longer exists. Rome didn’t fall all at once, and it didn’t fall for any one simple reason. But it ...
5 Jul 1h 19min
How Hitler replaced the Devil
Alec Ryrie argues that the age of Hitler is not the 1930s and 1940s, it is our own lifetimes. As the influence of Christianity receded from the 1960s onwards, the figure of Hitler stepped into the bre...
21 Jun 57min
Who is to blame for the riots?
In this bonus episode, Nina Power and I discussed recent events in Britain, including the announced ban on social media use for under 16s and last week's rioting in Belfast and elsewhere. Hosted on A...
19 Jun 20min
A Billion Years of Sex Differences | Maiden Mother Matriarch 203
The science of sex differences is intensely political. Traditionalists tend to exaggerate the innate differences between men and women, while progressives tend to minimise them, arguing that the behav...
14 Jun 57min
Why Tradwives are hated
In this bonus episode, I spoke with Helen Roy about Caro Claire Burke’s bestselling novel ‘Yesteryear’ and we tried to explain why the ‘tradwife’ phenomenon attracts such strength of feeling. Hosted o...
10 Jun 17min
