Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry

In this bonus episode, I spoke with Rod Dreher about what he describes as the 'Weimarisation of the West' – an increasingly atomised and economically precarious society that valorises transgression for its own sake. We also discussed whether World War II still has a central place in the cultural imagination, why the Online Right puts so much emphasis on humour, and the ongoing civil unrest in Minnesota.
Article in 'The Point' on heteropessimism
'The Harry Potter generation needs to grow up'
Tucker Carlson interviews Nick Fuentes
Fuentes on Red Scare
Rod's Substack post on nurses' comments on ICE agents
'The Radical Right Is Coming for Your Sons'
Ezra Klein on Trump

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Teenage anxiety isn’t a new thing. Our mothers and grandmothers also worried about beauty, and friendships, and boys.
What is new, however, is the role of technology in teenage anxiety. We see an inflection point in the early 2010s: a sudden drop in mental wellbeing among teenagers, particularly girls. The beginning of that drop coincided with the arrival of image-based social media like Instagram.
My guest today argues that this was not a coincidence. Freya India is the author of the Substack GIRLS, where she writes about the challenges girls and young women face in the modern world. She’s also a staff writer for Jonathan Haidt’s newsletter, After Babel.
Her new book is about the ways in which communication technology has given us a world in which teenage girls end up commodifying themselves – selling their lives on social media, advertising themselves on dating apps, and packaging themselves into personal brands. All at the cost of their own sanity.
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In this bonus episode, I spoke with Stone Age Herbalist about an essay he recently published on Victorian attitudes towards death.

We discussed the cultural impact of Jack the Ripper, the terror of body snatching, the practice of postmortem photography, and the Spiritualist movement's preoccupation with electricity.

Discussed in the episode:
'How The Victorians Eroticised Death, From Ophelia To Salome'
More on the anatomical venus
More on body snatching and Georgia Medical College

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The word 'meritocracy' was originally intended as a pejorative. It was coined in a 1958 novel written by the British social scientist Michael Young. In the dystopia that Young imagined, the old order has been overthrown and replaced with a tyrannical system obsessed with merit.

Today's guest not only joins Young in his critique of meritocracy, he also takes a further bold step in endorsing some extremely old fashioned ideas about wealth, family, and legacy.

In an age when celebrities routinely boast about their plans to disinherit their children and leave them to fend for themselves financially, Johann Kurtz makes a counter-cultural argument for nepotism. Do not give your money to charity, he says. Do not encourage your children to launch themselves into the meritocratic rat race. Learn, instead, from the ancient practices of aristocrats who had very different ideas about how to cultivate virtue in their descendants.

Kurtz is the author of the 'Becoming Noble' Substack. His new book is titled 'Leaving a Legacy: Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families.'

Discussed in the show:
'Leaving a Legacy'
Stress induced by downward social mobility
'Good Money' podcast series
Survey on attitudes towards grandchildren
'Toxic Charity'
'Revolt of the Elites'

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In this bonus episode, Ed West and I spoke about the mode of British governance that is simultaneously sinister and farcical, from the recent 'Prevent video game' to the police horses sent to re-education because they wouldn't walk over rainbow pedestrian crossings.

Discussed in this episode:
Conservatives are more accurate in describing the beliefs of liberals
"Met police hired black child rapist to boost diversity"
"Met urges Epping migrant sex offender to hand himself in"
"The Birmingham Maccabi scandal proves multiculturalism has failed"
Garrett Jones book on migration and culture
"UAE cuts funds for students keen to study in UK ‘over fears campuses radicalised by Islamist groups'"

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