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

But there is an obvious overlaid political valence on this, which is that this idea that if you're high tea, you're risk-taking, you're possibly violent, and you don't mind about inequality.

You know, it's about the strong dominating the weak.

And therefore, liberal democracy is inherently feminine because it's more concerned with making sure that the weak don't suffer too much, that there are equal rights for all.

So it's very easy to see how that vision of masculinity maps onto kind of MAGA rightism, definitely.

Yeah.

The bit I find, I just, again, when I start drilling down into the examples, I find it tricky.

So young men, for example, have much higher testosterone than old men.

So actually, really, are we talking about, if women shouldn't be in leadership positions, maybe old men shouldn't be in leadership positions.

So because they don't have the requisite thymus either.

Oh, no, you're not saying that.

So actually, you're just making very large sweeping claims about men are one thing and women are another thing.

That kind of stuff, you know, sort of falls apart in your hands.

But I also think that, don't you think it does speak to some people?

And I think it speaks to people who have like a female boss and they resent it and they find it slightly emasculating.

The kind of people who, if a woman upset them, the word bitch would be pretty close to their lips, right?

Like, how dare you speak to me like that?

You know, you're just a woman.

And I think that's closer to the surface in men, even men who are otherwise impeccably liberal than perhaps we sometimes like to acknowledge.

So I can see why this stuff does have a relatively wide appeal.

But it's an incredible cherry pick, isn't it, about Donald Trump, the ultimate alpha male.

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