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

And one of the things I thought was, oh, right, that's interesting.

I wonder what society he's referring to then.

I should go out and read a bit more about what these places were actually like.

And he's not referring to anything.

He says there's no specific historical referent.

And he says, in any case, one can't really define the longhouse, lest it should lose its force to lampoon the vast constellation of social forces it imagines.

And I thought, well, that's extremely convenient, isn't it?

You're invoking this terrible thing that happened in history, except it didn't happen in history in any way that you can concretely describe.

And in any case, you don't want to define it because it's more a vibe.

Right.

But that does get on my nerves because as somebody who spent a decade writing about feminism, the thing that you constantly got assailed with was, you know, you're just talking about feelings.

You're not talking about facts.

If you look at the facts, actually, they're against you.

And so it's quite odd to have pivoted into an era in which apparently, no, actually, we're not that interested in facts.

You know, we're actually just interested in vibes again.

Right.

But yeah, I think that's exactly right.

I think I've thought a lot about what the point of the offensiveness of the language is.

And it's clearly part of it is about a kind of signal like we're all guys in here, you know, you know, you're cool with this, like a sort of initiation right, essentially, like, you know, if you if you don't blanch somebody using the n word in the group chat, that's it, you know, you're allowed in the club.

And the other thing is about this idea that you just, you trip up liberals.

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