Helen Lewis

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1,139 appearances 8 recordings 6 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 24 Jun

Helen Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 6 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.

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The Ezra Klein Show · The New Right’s Very Old Vision of Men · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

How many people in the MAGA coalition are going to push back on that and say, actually, I think we should give more jobs and opportunities to women?

So it is this one thing that basically everybody can agree with.

Traditional gender roles are better.

Equality has been a failed pursuit.

It's maybe even an illegitimate pursuit.

Empathy, which is feminine by nature, has been misused and is ruining our politics because women and their parties that represent them, the Democrats, feel sorry for all these underdogs who aren't really underdogs.

They're kind of cancers on our society, like violent criminals or illegal immigrants.

So, you know, this is a very coherent ideology.

And the reason I wanted to write the piece is I think people are now quite familiar with the idea of the manosphere and the kind of Andrew Tate, you know, these provocateurs who are creatures of the algorithm.

And I wanted to say, well, hang on a minute, actually, there is a really serious ideological and political project here behind this.

It has got people in think tanks.

It's got people who are working in politics.

And it has got its kind of intellectual outriders.

But this isn't just some, you know, over-steroided guys in tight t-shirts parading around in nightclubs for the gram.

These are people who want to completely restructure American life into a way that they find more agreeable.

And they want to use legal instruments and political instruments to do so.

So the simplest way to say it is that men would be the breadwinners and women would be homemakers.

I mean, the kind of reference point always tends to be the 1950s, but it's a very fake Pleasantville black and white picket fence version of the 1950s.

Lots of families did not, in fact, live in that way.

But, you know, you would do that, for example, Scott Yenna, he mentioned there, one of his most controversial proposals is this idea of the family wage.

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