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

You know, you should make decisions not knowing which side of the outcome you'd end up on.

And if I said to you, do you honestly want to take your chances if you could be any citizen in the Roman Empire at any time or any citizen in America today?

I think almost everybody would take their chances being born in contemporary America rather than thinking that you were going to end up as Caligula.

Probably not.

You're probably going to end up as essentially a 12-year-old girl who got raped by her master every night.

You know, there is just this kind of, but then I think this comes back to this idea that they are special people and therefore they don't live in a society where they're able to exercise that specialness anymore.

Sure.

No, I think that's reasonable.

And there is a kind of light side version of that, right?

Which is that here in the developed world, we live in aging societies.

And that has profoundly shaped how decisions are made in just ways that we're only really beginning to reckon with now.

I'm not sure if that's so much about gender as it is about an aging society.

If you live in a much younger society, then the young people are the kind of dominant force and they set the rules.

Well, at the moment, we live by the baby boomers social, like their social conditions that they find most amenable to them.

But the other bit that I think is worth taking away from this, and I don't want to dismiss all this stuff out of hand, is that I do think that there is a place in society for male spaces.

I made a program from the BBC about gurus, new gurus it was called.

And one of the things I did was I went to a Brazilian jiu-jitsu gym.

And I talked to older guys who had lived a life and they were teaching younger men about controlling their aggression and how to channel that into positive ways.

I've written Difficult Women about the problems of boys in school, which again, I think are real.

I think there are lots of boys who find it really difficult to sit still for eight hours a day.

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