Masculinism and Feminism | Interview: Helen Lewis
18 May 2026

Masculinism and Feminism | Interview: Helen Lewis

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Jonah Goldberg is infamous for throwing around his feminist credentials, but today he comes face-to-face with the real deal. Helen Lewis joins the show to put an end Jonah’s performative feminism and to talk about the feminization thesis, Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens, right-wing women, based rituals, shibboleths, feminist rhetoric, weird Oregon cheese, protests as carnival, Handmaid’s Tale cosplay, abortion, institutional drift, male/female differences, and parenthood.

Show Notes:

—⁠Helen in The Atlantic “The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet”⁠

—⁠Atlantic piece about gambling⁠

—⁠The Wilson/Hitchens book for which Jonah wrote the forward⁠

—⁠Helen’s book: Difficult Women: An Imperfect History of Feminism⁠

—⁠Triggernometry Pod - Adam Carolla Unfiltered on Immigration, Activism and Women⁠

—⁠Richard Hanania: ”The Based Ritual”⁠

—⁠Helen’s disposed European royals article⁠

—⁠Helen Andrews: “The Great Feminization”⁠

—⁠Hannah Rosin: The End of Men⁠

—⁠Helen interviews Jordan Peterson⁠

—⁠Sarah Isgur: Last Branch Standing⁠

—⁠The War Against Boys⁠

—⁠Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel⁠

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