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

I know that I'm sure my life would be better if I took more exercise, got outside more, took a screen break, didn't doom scroll.

I think all of those things are reasonable.

I think the American diet is hideous, particularly for lower income Americans.

I don't think all of those things are ridiculous.

That's something that comes up a lot in The Last Man, the idea that elites are keeping you fat, they're keeping your low testosterone if you don't eat enough meat, like vegans are oppressing you.

But it's very interesting because clearly that has caught on because Arnold Schwarzenegger made a documentary about being vegetarian, except he'd rebranded it as plant-based.

And it was all about how actually you could be an incredibly good weightlifter if you were on a plant-based diet.

You could have incredibly strong erections on a plant-based diet.

So clearly that has seeped into that discourse that there is something unmanly about not eating meat.

But I think I like that book more than you did.

I found it, maybe my expectations are lower.

But the thing that I found that was interesting about it was that it moved from saying it is impossible to be a man fully in a liberal democracy.

There's a line in that says essentially that because of the fact that you're being kept in this, you know, rubbish jobs and you have low testosterone, all this kind of stuff.

And then you get to the end and you find out, okay, so what are we doing then?

And there's a bit like, well, you should chuck out your plastic chopping board.

And I was like, oh, I was I was sort of expecting you to advocate fascism at the end.

But you've kind of you've kept it lower.

You've kept it more achievable.

And that's the bit where that was a bit where I slightly parted company from it.

Right.

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