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Journalist Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

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The men who want women to be quiet

Difficult Women

(The Atlantic) [Patriarch, theologian, and right-wing Christian Pastor] Douglas Wilson has a modest proposal to improve American life:

He wants to repeal the 19th Amendment, which gave women the vote.

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In his ideal system, “we would do it in our politics the same way we do it in our church structure,” he told me recently. “And that is, we vote by household.”

Wilson is a co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, based in Moscow, Idaho. Over the past five decades, he has built a small empire there, dedicated to disseminating his theocratic vision for the United States: a publishing house, a school, a liberal-arts college, and a video-streaming service.

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His denomination, which has about 170 affiliated churches, counts [macho drunkard] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a member, and Wilson was invited to lead a prayer service at the Pentagon in February. So when the pastor casually suggests disenfranchising half of America, people listen.

 

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When I asked him about this position, Wilson said it wasn’t his top priority—“We have bigger fish to [kill and] fry”—but something he sees happening in perhaps 200 years’ time.

I found this intellectual footsie maddening. “If I said to you, ‘I think all white men should be put in cages—but not now; it’s not my aspiration for now,’” I suggested, “then you wouldn’t be interested in a single other thing that I had to say at that point.”

Wilson chuckled. “Oh, I know you’d probably have all my attention.”

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This is twinkly, avuncular Douglas Wilson, the guy who joined a hippie congregation fresh out of the U.S. Navy because he liked to play guitar and ended up leading church services once the regular pastor moved on. This is the same guy who once went on a multicity debating tour with the New Atheist Christopher Hitchens, and bonded with him over their shared love of... More

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(Fresh Air) June 24, 2026: Terry Gross interviews Helen Lewis. Masculinism is a belief that feminism emasculates men [making them less masculine], and men should be in control while women stay at home [barefoot and pregnant or] raising children. The Atlantic writer Helen Lewis says the movement is becoming mainstream. More

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  Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights and The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea. She is host of the BBC’s long-form interview series, The Spark. At The Atlantic, she writes about the intersection of politics, society, and digital culture.
• Helen Lewis (BBC), Terry Gross (NPR), June 24, 2026; CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly