<p><strong>NEW SWAG ALERT 🚨 </strong>The Small Government line is back & better than ever. <a target="_blank" href="https://diabolical-lies.myshopify.com/"><strong>Get yours here</strong></a>.</p><p>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.</p><p>In this episode, we check in with a writer we haven’t discussed since one of our very first episodes:</p><p>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 <em>liberal teen girls</em>, as she often puts it).</p><p>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.</p><p>What <em>Girls® </em>lacks in explanatory mechanisms, it makes up for in solutions: Logging off, finding God, and starting a family.</p><p>The ideological project underway here should be obvious to anyone whose brain hasn’t been marinated in a dutch oven full of expired bath salts, so why has this book been endorsed by a gaggle of high-profile, putatively left-wing men?</p><p><em>Diabolical Lies</em> investigates.</p><p>All citations and references can be found at www.diabolicalliespod.com.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.diabolicalliespod.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.diabolicalliespod.com/subscribe</a>