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My guest today is Paul Seabright, Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse and the author of a new book 'The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People.' We spoke about what membership of a religious community offers people, and why it isn't necessarily irrational for poor people to give a large proportion of their i…
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My guest today is Wendy Kline, Historian of Medicine at Purdue University and author of books including 'Exposed: The Hidden History of the Pelvic Exam', 'Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth', and 'Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the Second Wave.' We spoke about the rise of gynaecology and obstetrics as medical di…
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My guest today is Paul Morland, Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and the author of ‘The Human Tide,’ ’Tomorrow’s People,’ and most recently ‘No One Left.’ We spoke about global fertility trends, pronatalism and policy interventions that could help solve declining birth rates, and the role of culture and technology in fertility…
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I'll be re-releasing six episodes from the early days of the podcast over the course of my maternity leave. This month, my archived interview is with the writer and archeologist Stone Age Herbalist, author of the Grey Goose Chronicles substack, and also the book Berserkers, Cannibals & Shamans: Essays in Dissident Anthropology. Plus a new collection of …
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My guest today is Michaeleen Doucleff, correspondent for NPR radio and author of the bestselling book 'Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans.' We spoke about the ways in which Western parenting radically diverges from the human norm, why parenting books are a product of atomis…
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My guest today is Joshua Dale, professor at Chuo University in Tokyo and author of 'Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Changed the World'. We spoke about the historical roots of the Japanese passion for cuteness, the differences in pre-modern attitudes towards children in Japan and Europe, the role of domestication syndrome in the developme…
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My guest today is Roanne van Voorst – anthropologist, futurist, assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, and author of 'Six in a Bed: The Future of Love.'
We spoke about sex robots, including Roanne's chilling encounter at a sex robot brothel in Vienna. We also spoke about other kinds of romantic virtual relationships with AI that are becomin…
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I'll be re-releasing six episodes from the early days of the podcast over the course of my maternity leave. This month, my archived interview is with Dr Abigail Favale, a writer and professor in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. She has an academic background in feminist literary criticism, and now writes and teaches…
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My guest today is David Goodhart, founder of Prospect magazine and Head of Demography, Immigration & Integration at Policy Exchange. David's new book, 'The Care Dilemma: Caring Enough in the Age of Sex Equality,' is the final instalment of a trilogy of books on class, economics, and the family that began with 'The Road to Somewhere' and 'Head Hand Heart…
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My guest today is Mike Israetel, bodybuilding and fitness consultant, former Professor of Nutrition and Sport Science, and co-founder of Renaissance Periodization. We spoke about why women benefit from lifting heavy weights even more than men do in terms of metabolic health, longevity, bone density, and day-to-day living. Will you risk getting bulky? Is…
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My guest today is Tracing Woodgrains, writer on Substack and (until recently) producer for the Blocked & Reported podcast. We spoke about Trace's life as an ex-Mormon. His family have been Mormons for seven generations and he was born and brought up in Utah. But he left the church as an adult, came out as gay, and is now married to a man. We discussed t…
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My guest today is Ray Blanchard, sexologist and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, particularly renowned for developing Blanchard's transsexualism typology and for his work on the fraternal birth order effect on male homosexuality. We spoke about the various possible causes of homosexuality for both men and women, whether or not the '…
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I'll be re-releasing six episodes from the early days of the podcast over the course of my maternity leave. This month, my archived interview is with Niccolo Soldo, political commentator and Substack author. We spoke about his Substack series on the early history of HIV/AIDS in America, including the political response of gay campaigners at the time, th…
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My guest today is Malcolm Collins: pronatalist campaigner, co-founder (along with his wife Simone) of the Collins Institute, and author of many books, including 'The Pragmatist's Guide to Crafting Religion.' We spoke about religion – why so many religions are haemorrhaging adherents, the elements that a religion needs in order to survive and spread, and…
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My guest today is Auron MacIntyre, columnist at The Blaze, host of 'The Auron MacIntyre Show', and author of 'The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies.' We spoke about what the events of 2020 revealed about our political system, why we don't really live in a democracy, and how the total state has come to supplant the family, the church,…
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📰 Subscribe to Maiden Mother Matriarch here to listen to full extended episodes: louiseperry.substack.com My guest today is the writer and comedian Bridget Phetasy, author of the 'Beyond Parody' Substack, columnist at the Spectator World, and host of the 'Walk ins Welcome' podcast and 'Dumpster Fire' YouTube show. We spoke about Bridget's recent viral …
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I'll be re-releasing six episodes from the early days of the podcast over the course of my maternity leave. This month, my archived interview is with Jennifer Lahl, founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, Jennifer spent 25 years working as a paediatric critical care nurse, a hospital administrator, and a senior-level nursi…
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My guest today is Ross Douthat, columnist at the New York Times, and author of books including 'Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics' and 'The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success.' We spoke about whether polyamory is drifting back towards a more traditional model, the nature of repaganisation in relation to euthana…
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My guest today is Amy Wax, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Amy is both a legal scholar and medical scholar, with dual specialties in both neurology and social welfare law.
We spoke today about the feminisation of public life, particularly of the academy, and debated whether or not we can design mixed-sex institutions to su…
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