Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode, Meghan and I spoke about ‘Right wing cancel culture’ – is it a real phenomenon? Is it as bad as the Left wing kind? And how do the Right tend to respond to their own apostates? We also spoke about the reluctance of many pro-choice advocates to debate abortion, whether McCarthyism might have b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Christiana Maxion, a matchmaker based in Dubai who specialises in providing bespoke matchmaking services to the ultra wealthy. We spoke about how this kind of modern matchmaking differs from the traditional model, the problem of people overestimating their desirability and how a good matchmaker sh...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode, Rob Henderson and I spoke about downward social mobility and the political instability generated by elite over-production. We also discussed the status anxiety motivating the MAGA movement, whether Mars colonisation would relieve political tension, the role of downward social mobility in the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk This episode is sponsored by Relay. For a 7 day free trial, go to https://joinrelay.app/maiden and use the code ‘LOUISE’ at checkout. 📰 Subscribe to Maiden Mother Matriarch here to listen to full extended episodes: louiseperry.substack.com My guest today is Ed Latimore, a best-selling author, former professional h...

I'm joined today by Kate Phelan and Johann Kurtz to debate the question 'should we encourage our sons to be masculine?' Kate is a lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne and the author of a recent book titled 'Feminism, Defeated.' Johann is the author of the Substack 'Becoming Noble.' We discussed whether the relationship between masculinity and femininity is necessarily hierarchical, the role of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Katherine Dee, tech reporter and historian of the internet. We spoke about a recent New York Times article ('They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.') on psychosis induced by ChatGPT, and compared this phenomenon with historic cases of new communication technologies...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Alex Kaschuta, creator of The Garden of Earthly Delights Substack. We spoke about why modern urbanites are so attracted to tradlife, but why (what I call ) unilateral tradlife is so difficult. We also spoke about the peculiarity of Anglo culture from an Eastern European perspective, whether the Ri...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode I spoke with Ed West about the 'flagging' phenomenon in Britain: the government's inability to respond to it, why it's emerged right now, and whether it's just a show or patriotism or a sign of something more sinister. We also spoke about 'colourblind casting' in British historical dramas, the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guests today are Ute Heggen and Emma Thomas, two women whose lives have been deeply impacted by the men in their lives choosing to transition. Ute runs the YouTube channel @UteHeggenTranswidowHeals, and has also authored a memoir titled 'In the Curated Woods.' Emma is founder of the campaign group Children of Tr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode I spoke about Freya India about the modern pathologisation of personality traits – including virtues like "people pleasing" – and whether a better understanding of psychological sex differences might encourage young people to be less vexed about common psychological phenomena like rumination....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Kate Phelan, a Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, and the author of a new book titled 'Feminism, Defeated.' We spoke about how feminism has changed over the past half century, from the radicalism of the Second Wave to the absorption of femi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode, I spoke with Meghan Murphy about the phenomenon of female teachers – typically young and attractive – having sexual relationships with their young male students. Plus we spoke about women behaving like 'female chauvinist pigs', my theory of nonce radar, and whether or not men are now more int...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Amy Alkon, science reporter and author of a new book titled 'Going Menopostal: What You (and Your Doctor) Need to Know About the Real Science of Menopause and Perimenopause.' We spoke about menopause: what it is, the symptoms, treatment options, and why Amy believes that most menopausal women are...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode, Nina Power and I spoke about ' 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story ', a new documentary on Channel 4, as well as Kathleen Stock's recent essay for UnHerd about the documentary . Is Bonnie Blue the perfect capitalist? An artist? A demon? A psychopath? A neo-religious symbol? All of the abov...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is the writer and cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins. She has previously written books on museums and the moral questions raised by exhibiting or retaining certain artefacts, in that spirit she is also a trustee of the British Museum, and a radio presenter, including of the BBC Radio 4 series 'The Hi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode, Rob Henderson and I spoke about Sydney Sweeney's ad for American Eagle – why has it been so controversial? What does the response tell us about intrasexual competition? Does this indicate a political pivot in popular culture? And why did so many companies embrace the spirit of 2020 in the fir...

In a first for MMM, today’s episode is a debate. Discussing the question “should we encourage our daughters to be feminists?”, we have Bryan Caplan (professor of economics at George Mason University) and Holly Lawford-Smith (professor of political philosophy at the University of Melbourne). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episod...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is the writer and psychotherapist Phyllis Chesler. Her bestselling book, 'Women and Madness', published in 1972, was one of the most influential books of the second wave. She has spent a lifetime writing about and campaigning on feminist issues including honour killings, the surrogacy industry, child...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, Mary and I spoke about why thinking about death makes people want to have children, climate change anxiety, the post-literate future, the new vigilante groups springing up in Britain, and why Britain’s upper classes are suffering from post-colonial grief Hosted on Acast....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Ross Douthat, columnist at The New York Times and author of many books, including a new one titled 'Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious.' We spoke about near death experiences, the mystery of the Turin Shroud, how mystical experiences change people (if at all), the challenge of detecting the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode, I spoke with Nina Power about the symbolic power of terrorism and how this has changed post-9/11, the increasingly nihilistic motivations of terrorists in Europe, the use of the Oasis track ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing, and the increasing public distr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Holly Lawford-Smith, a philosopher, author and associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. We discussed her latest book, titled 'Feminism Beyond Left and Right', in which Holly argues for an expansive definition of feminism that untethers it from its association wit...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode, I spoke with Meghan Murphy about whether marriage is still an attractive prospect for women, Meghan's own objections to getting married, the problem for feminists of working out whether a woman is really choosing something or whether she's deluded about her own desires, and what the apparent...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk Bijan Omrani is an historian, classicist, and research fellow at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is titled (somewhat provocatively) 'God is an Englishman: How Christianity Created England.' We spoke about how little we know about pre-Christian Britain, why Christianity swept through the country so ra...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk In this bonus episode, I spoke with Rob Henderson about expensive weddings, the unexpected consequences of abortion decriminalisation, whether or not hunter gatherers are happier than modern Westerners, and why we should all consider giving up mirrors next Lent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...