My guest today is Johann Kurtz, pseudonymous author of the 'Becoming Noble' Substack. We spoke about the long history of falling fertility rates, and particularly about the role of status in explaining the phenomenon.

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My guest today is Meghan Daum, host of 'The Unspeakable' podcast, co-host of 'A Special Place in Hell' with Sarah Haider, and creator of 'The Unspeakeasy', a community for free-thinking women from everywhere on the political spectrum can talk honestly about complex issues. We spoke about why Meghan hates the term 'childfree', why matchmaking systems hav…

My guest today is Ed West, author of 'The Wrong Side of History' on Substack, and of books including 'The Diversity Illusion: What We Got Wrong about Immigration and How to Set It Right' and 'Tory Boy: Memoirs of the Last Conservative.' We spoke about Rotherham: why it happened, the ongoing political fallout, and the future of multiracial Britain.

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My guest today is John Tosh, Professor Emeritus of History at Roehampton University and the author of many books, including 'A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England' and 'Masculinities in Politics and War: gendering modern history.' We spoke about the effect that the industrial revolution had on British masculinity, in …

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 Professor Michael Bailey, author of the (somewhat infamous) book The Man Who Would Be Queen. We spoke about Michael’s research on sexual orientation, including autogynephilia, and the attempts to cancel hi…

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…

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…

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 …

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…