We live in a time of mounting cultural confusion. Beneath our daily political debates lies a deeper crisis: a broken picture of the world’s basic elements and our place in it. Social roles are in flux, technology fragments our attention, and the idea of human nature itself is up for debate.
Until we grapple with some basic questions about the worldviews animating our lives, many of our most important political debates – around gender, productivity, family, and freedom – will keep missing the mark.
To offer her perspective on these big issues, Mary Harrington joins Inside Policy Talks. Harrington is a columnist at UnHerd and the author of Feminism Against Progress. She’s one of the most incisive voices challenging core aspects of the dominant modern Western worldview – from its assumptions about autonomy and equality, to its blind spots around gender and the limits of technology.
On the podcast, she tells Peter Copeland, deputy director of domestic policy at MLI, that although most women become mothers, women are told that the core desires of feminism “conceptually exclude this whole domain of experience.” She says that led her to “questioning the idea of liberal individualism,” including “the feminist difficulties with it.”
