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

in elite sense, is read by normal everyday people as he likes basic things that are easy to appreciate and nice.

You know, he wants, like he wants the, presumably he wants that ballroom to look like the Roman forum that people might have seen on, you know, on their holiday in Italy.

So this is a bit about the kind of the left's hatred of, yeah, of the middle brown, the popular and the mainstream.

I mean, you mentioned Hamilton.

You know, I love Hamilton as much as a white liberal millennial could.

But I went back to see it a couple of years ago and I was like, oh, this is Obama era cringe.

And like it's because it's so earnest and sweet.

And like now everything is so cynical and jaded that it's quite hard to put yourself back into the state to be able to appreciate someone who's just straightforwardly hopeful about the upward progress of America.

So it does kind of read as cringe.

But again...

You know, just in the same way that having no shame is a very useful asset in American politics, having no sense of cringe is probably also quite good.

Well, yeah, I mean, there's a kind of suite of ideas.

So no-fault divorce, the rollback of that, right?

Take it back to the idea that divorce, someone in the couple is to blame and they therefore get penalized.

And one of the reasons that the feminist movement was very against that is that that was used to punish women, essentially, to say you have been adulterous and disobedient and therefore your kids should be taken away.

And I've written in support of no-fault divorce.

We only got it here in Britain within the last decade.

Because I think that the one thing you need when you're trying to get through a relationship, if you have kids, is like, really, this is, yes, this is a divorce, but this is also a co-parenting negotiation.

And turning that into an adversarial fight from the very start is unlikely to end well.

But that doesn't fit this kind of masculinist paradigm.

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