This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Coleen T. Murphy, Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton, and also the director of Princeton's Laboratory for Aging Research. Her new book is titled 'How We Age: The Science of Longevity.' We spoke about why women live longer than men, what centenarians seem to have in common with one another, why eunuchs may live longer than othe…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Cassie Jaye, a filmmaker best known for the hugely controversial 2016 documentary 'The Red Pill' which followed Cassie's journey from feminism to becoming (partially) persuaded by men's rights activism. We spoke about how she feels about the film – and about MRAs – eight years on. In the extended part of the episode, we also spoke about…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk Stephen Shaw is the writer, director & producer of the documentary 'Birthgap - Childless World.' We spoke about why falling birth rates are (almost) an international phenomenon, why most childlessness is unplanned, and the role of the Pill in social norms that lead to falling fertility.  In the extended version of the episode, we spoke about why mass imm…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge. We spoke about a whole range of issues that Miriam is interested in: assisted dying, transgenderism, egg freezing, surrogacy, pronatalism, and childcare. In the extended part of the episode, we also spoke about how Miriam's Christianity influences her work, and the gap betwe…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and author of the new book 'Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization.' We spoke about why a third of Gen Z Americans are likely to never marry, the so-call…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Ed West, journalist, author, and the writer of 'The Wrong Side is History' Substack. We spoke about Ed's most popular Substack post to date, 'Why Children of Men is really happening', the political and economic problems Britain is currently experiencing, and the likelihood of British professionals emigrating en masse to places like Ame…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Tracy Vaillancourt, professor in the Faculty of Education and the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, and also the Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention. We spoke about aggression among teenage girls, how boys and girls differ in their aggressive tactics, why women dislike overt sexin…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is the author, journalist, and veteran women's rights campaigner Julie Bindel. We spoke about the feminist sex wars of the 1980s, the clashes between gay men and lesbians over the years, and the ongoing class conflicts within feminism. In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about the child prostitution gangs in cities like Rotherha…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Stephen Blackwood, philosopher and president of Ralston College, a new liberal arts college in Savannah, Georgia. We spoke about the failings of modern architecture, the West's spiritual crisis following the Second World War, and the veneration of subversion for the sake of subversion.  In the extended part of the episode, we spoke abou…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Hannah Barnes, investigative journalist, associate editor at the New Statesman, and author of 'Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children.' We spoke about the findings of the Cass Review, what exactly went wrong at the Tavistock, and why the situation in America is even worse when it …

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Alex Kaschuta, host of the podcast 'Subversive.'  We spoke about the online gender wars, how the internet encourages dysfunctional relationships offline, and how we should choose our children's peer groups in an effort to protect them from these effects.  In the extended version of the episode, we also spoke about how our own politics ha…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Rob Henderson – academic, writer, and author of a new book 'Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.' We spoke about whether sexual liberation counts as a luxury belief and why elites tend to talk the talk on 1960s ideology, but actually live like the 1950s ideal. In the extended version of the episode we also spoke…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is the writer and expert on online culture Katherine Dee, also known as Default Friend. We spoke about why TikTok isn't as bad as everyone thinks, how the internet is warping women's sexuality, and what journalists misunderstand about femcels (that is, female incels).  In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about whether elite polit…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist, associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, and author of many books, including (most recently) 'Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech'.  We spoke about how consumerist culture limits fertility, the status games that parents play with their children, how the blank slate view of human nature makes...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Irish Times columnist Finn McRedmond. We spoke about the recent referendum in Ireland on the constitutional definitions of marriage and motherhood, as well as previous referendums on abortion and same sex marriage. How liberalised and secularised has Ireland really become? In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about the recent violent unrest in response to mass immigration, and the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. In this episode we spoke about... the future of humanity! In particular, the role of falling birth rates in stifling innovation, and what this means for a possible high tech future. In short, i…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Heather Heying – evolutionary biologist, co-host (with her husband Bret Weistein) of the Darkhorse podcast, and also the co-author of 'A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life.' We mostly spoke about babies! On the modern guidance on breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and sleep training, and th…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Catherine Pakaluk, Director of Social Research and Associate Professor at the Catholic University of America, and the author of a new book titled 'Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth.'  'Hannah's Children' is based around interviews with 55 American women who have both been to university, and have also had five…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is the journalist Abigail Shrier, author of the bestselling 'Irreversible Damage', and now a new book – 'Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up.' We spoke about the harmful side effects of therapy, particularly for children, whether the rise of therapy culture is a product of family disintegration, and why girls from liberal families have been worst affected by the rise in teenage mental...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, and the author of the 2021 book 'Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality.' We spoke today about fan fiction, a topic that Helen has been researching for many years. Why are so many girls and young women obsessed with fanfic? Why does it so often feature romantic relationships between men? And why has it become much more sexually explicit in recent...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Dr. Avital Hazony Levi, a postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University who specialises in philosophy and the study of the Hebrew Bible. We spoke about why Israel has the highest birth rate in the developed world, motherhood in the Bible, the rejection of biological family in the kibbutz movement, and traditional Jewish matchmaking. 

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Rakib Ehsan, writer, researcher, and author of 'Beyond Grievance: What the Left gets wrong about ethnic minorities.'  We started by speaking about family breakdown as a cause of inequality across ethnic groups, and the enormous differences in economic success between different ethnic minorities in Britain, and the tension that generates…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk Cory Clark is a behavioural scientist, the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Adversarial Collaboration Research Center at University of Pennsylvania, and a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department. We started by discussing Cory's research on how average psychological sex differences between men and women could explain the changes to academic …

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Lane Scott, Catholic homeschooling mother of five, writer, and author of the Matriarch Goals Substack. We spoke about Lane's beautiful essay for the American Mind, titled 'The Mother's Gauntlet', on the challenges stay-at-home mothers face in forging an alternative path for their families. We also spoke about the tradwife social media …