Against Heteropessimism | Maiden Mother Matriarch 211
There is a certain kind of caricature of women that pops up in cultural commentary right now. Modern women, we are told, are inundated with male attention at all times, and all of it is deeply unwelco...
30 Aug 1h 3min
Are young adults actually poor?
For this bonus episode, I spoke with Johann Kurtz about his viral essay 'Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise', which was partly inspired by a previous MMM bonus episode...
26 Aug 5min
The post-literate society | Maiden Mother Matriarch 210
Samuel Johnson was one of his history's great readers. He read constantly: while he walked, while he ate, while he socialised. He insisted that one ought to read for five hours a day, and to read on e...
23 Aug 1h 15min
'Woke 1' was crazy. 'Woke 2' will be crazier.
In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, Rob Henderson and I discussed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comments on "woke 1" and the shift towards a new kind of progressive politics that's currently unde...
19 Aug 18min
Does populism end in disaster? | Maiden Mother Matriarch 209
Something called 'populism' is on the rise across much of the world. It's difficult to pin down exactly what the term means, but most of us have a sense that we know it when we see it. Trump in the Un...
16 Aug 1h 9min
Is it wrong to get botox?
In this bonus episode, I spoke to former radical feminist (well, sort of) Meghan Murphy about beauty treatments. How should feminists think about, for instance, botox? How should individual women navi...
12 Aug 15min
The children divorcing their parents | Maiden Mother Matriarch 208
Back in 2013, the Obama administration endorsed an ad campaign that came to be derisively known as the “pajama boy” campaign. “Pajama boy” was actually an adult man who encouraged young adults to make...
9 Aug 1h 4min
English rebels
In this bonus episode, I spoke with Nina Power about the English village that is seeking independence from the UK in protest at a local asylum seeker accommodation centre. We discussed the issues with...
6 Aug 18min
