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
How multiculturalism really works | Maiden Mother Matriarch 201
Western elites tend to be xenophilic. They love the cultural other, and they abhor the dullness and small mindedness they see in their own countrymen. But, as Chris Bayliss points out, this is typical...
7 Jun 1h 2min
Should Christians fear AI?
In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, I spoke with Mary Harrington about Pope Leo's encyclical on AI, whether it should be regarded as 'normal technology' or as something entirely different, and...
3 Jun 19min
"You are not enough people!" | Maiden Mother Matriarch 200
The institution of marriage has changed a lot over the last few centuries. As Eli Finkel explains in ‘The All of Nothing Marriage’ – truly one of my favourite social science books – Americans of the e...
31 Mai 1h 14min
