Siri Hustvedt

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Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky · Siri Hustvedt · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

But it's the same drama unfolding.

Yes, so it's good to remember that progress is a 19th century myth that we live with.

But the idea that there's social improvement.

Now, there are social improvements, and I will be the first to say that it's true.

But there are also always...

periods of regression and you see this with the rise of fascism for example in the 20th century in Europe when what is the first to go?

Women's rights, whatever they were, and we see that now, right?

So I think it's good to put that myth in a box and think of what's actually happening and to know that in history there isn't this –

You know, linear march to a better world.

Yeah.

Unfortunately.

You know, the difficulty with conspiracy theories is that there are conspiracies.

You know, it's a little bit like, well, if you can suffer from a terrible case of paranoia, and at the same time, someone could be spying on you.

Yes.

You know, these are not mutually exclusive things.

And I think conspiracy theories...

can flourish often in, say,

some communities where conspiracies have actually hurt them, right?

So it's unclear, but it's good to hold off on judgment until one has some evidence.

Fine.

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