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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You know, women shouldn't be preaching.
So, you know, the relationship with Christianity is also very tense, I think.
Well, it's also very funny because successive popes just turn out to be a terrible disappointment to them, which is just like somebody who was raised Catholic, just really funny.
No, have we got another pope?
Does he agree with?
No, no, no.
He also keeps saying things about the poor.
Oh, gross.
Right, but when you read some of that stuff, don't you think it's a bit like how people who regress to their past lives always end up that they would have been Cleopatra?
They would never have been some guy who died as a toothless peasant at the age of 12.
There is a kind of belief that if they lived in these ancient hierarchical societies, they would be one of life's winners.
I went back through my notes from when I was reading The Last Man, and I've written, do we want to return to a civil service run by eunuchs?
Right?
Is Elon Musk ready to make the ultimate sacrifice?
Because actually, that's much better if you have a professional unit class who are looking after democracy.
No, there's loads of stuff from this period that they don't want to take back.
And all of it is really predicated on the idea that, yeah, if you want to go back to Roman times, you're going to be a Roman citizen, not a slave, right?
You're one of life's winners.
So that's inevitably what you would have ended up as.
And the thing I kept coming back to was this thought experiment by the philosopher John Rawls, the veil of ignorance.
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