Helen Lewis
speaker
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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Once you get to that stage with an essayist where you go, I'm going to have to go and follow every single citation down the rabbit hole to find out if you've really...
represented this or have you just, you know, have you come to a conclusion first and just have this chain of stuff that lines up?
That to me is fatal.
So I tried, you know, like you, I tried to read things with an open mind.
I think she captured something important that many people felt.
Otherwise, there wouldn't have been such a reaction to it.
But I became increasingly annoyed at the vibesiness of it.
outcome?
Was Senator McCarthy actually secretly a woman?
This is a really big thing that we should know.
So even the word ostracism, right?
The word ostracism comes from the ancient Greek practice of writing down people's names on a stone or pottery tablet, and then they are banished from outside the city walls.
That is done in a society in which women were explicitly second-class citizens.
You can take all the women out and people will still decide that there are sometimes ways that you settle disputes that don't involve violence.
But you're right.
Partly, yes, this is again, this is a correlation causation question, right?
Yes, obviously things like cancellations and indirect conflict have increased.
But is that just part of a wider social shift away from violence?
Someone like Steven Pinker would argue that's just true.
We live in a less violent society than our equivalent countries were in 1800 when people were dueling.
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