Second Self

Laura Kennedy

Welcome to Second Self, the podcast about the self we inherit, and the one we create. In this series, I’ll be having conversations with interesting people about the important ideas they’ve adopted and the ones they’ve moved away from through their lives. Though we live in an increasingly polarised landscape where ‘picking a side’ and digging your heels in is incentivised, Second Self is about intellectual curiosity, constructing your own individual identity, and when you need to, changing your mind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Second Self

Episodes (8)

Dec 7, 2021 Helen Pluckrose
Nov 16, 2021 Catherine Cho
Nov 2, 2021 Sarah Maria Griffin

Second Self

Dec 7, 2021
1 hours
1 GB

This week's guest is Helen Pluckrose, co-author of the bestselling Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody and founder of Counterweight, an organisation which advocates for liberal approaches to social justice. In this episode, Helen discusses her unorthodox route to becoming a public intellectual, why she decided to set up Counterweight and how her thinking has evolved over time. We have a frank and - in places - challenging discussion on our changing attitudes to feminism, critical social justice, and freedom of expression. Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Second Self

Helen Pluckrose

Laura Kennedy

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