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The episode features a discussion with Freya India about her book 'Girls®' and its critique of modern liberalism and its effects on young women.

NEW SWAG ALERT 🚨 The Small Government line is back & better than ever. Get yours here . Katie’s back on her metaphoric “What’s Charlie Kirk up to these days?” editorial grind—checking in with one of the hottest new Gen Z Lady Voices taking the middle-aged men of the center-right by storm. In this episode, we check in with a writer we haven’t discussed since one of our very first episodes: Freya India, also known as three Jonathan Haidts in a very hot 26-year-old trenchcoat, just published her first book, Girls®—an excoriation of the modern world and its effects on The Youth (or, more specifically, the pathologies of liberal teen girls , as she often puts it). To hear India tell it, young girls have been Filtered, Diagnosed, Documented, Disconnected, Detached, and ‘Empowered,’ all thanks to the increasingly rapacious incentive structure of a pyramid-shaped economic system that necessitates a constantly growing consumer base wait, sorry, no. That’s not it. Actually, we’re not really sure why. You know what? It’s not important. Let’s move on. What Girls® lacks in explanatory mechanisms, it makes up for in solutions: Logging off, finding God, and starting a family. The ideological…

People in this episode

Hosts: Katie Gatti Tassin, Caro Claire Burke

Guest: Freya India

Topics covered

• Gen Z
• women's voices
• cultural critique
• liberalism
• consumerism

Keywords

• Gen Z
• Freya India
• Girls®
• cultural critique
• liberal teen girls

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Girls®

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