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Katie’s back on her metaphoric “What’s Charlie Kirk up to these days?” editorial grind1—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 girls2, 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: Regulation, redistribution, reform logging off, finding God, and starting a family.3
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?
Diabolical Lies investigates.
“The Anxious Generation” from If Books Could Kill
“Freya India can’t save our girls” by Zuzanna Lachendro for The New Statesman (2026)
“The 26-year-old Brit who is the anti-woke voice of Gen Z women” by Harriet Walker for The Times (2026)
“What does Gen Z have against motherhood?” by Freya India for The Spectator (2022)
“History Says That Female Leaders Are More Likely to Wage War Than Men” by Freya India for Evie (2020)
“Toxic Femininity Creates Dangerous Men” by Freya India for Evie (2020)
“Can Women Learn Anything from Jordan Peterson?” by Freya India for Evie (2021)
“Are Girls Being Lied to About Marriage?” by Freya India for GIRLS (2023)
“I’m So Sick of the Gender Divide” by Freya India for GIRLS (2023)
“Why I’m Worried About the Rise of Liberal Young Women” by Freya India for GIRLS (2023)
“Teens Spend Average of 4.8 Hours on Social Media per Day” by Jonathan Rothwell for Gallup (2023)
The CDC’s National Vital Statistics Reports, Births: Final Data for 2023
“The Age of Abandonment” by Freya India for GIRLS (2024)
“The Age of Abandonment” by Freya India for GIRLS (2024)
“How Social Media Feminised Us All” by Freya India for GIRLS (2026)
“The Women Joining the New Right” by Freya India for First Things (2026)
“Being Damaged is Not a Personality Trait” from the Modern Wisdom Podcast with Chris Williamson
“Differentiating Among Internality, Powerful Others, and Chance” from RESEARCH WITH THE LOCUS OF CONTROL CONSTRUCT (Vol. 1) by Hanna Levenson (1981)
“New Report Finds Conservatives Demonstrate More Self-Control Than Liberals” from the University of Cincinnati (2015)
“Red State Families: Better Than We Knew” by Brad Wilcox and Nicholas Zill for Institute for Family Studies (2015)
“ARE BOTH PARENTS ALWAYS BETTER THAN ONE? PARENTAL CONFLICT AND YOUNG ADULT WELL-BEING,” a study from Kelly Musick and Ann Meier in Social Science Research (2010)
“Child Sexual Abuse Fact Sheet” from The National Child Traumatic Stress Network”
“8 facts about divorce in the United States” by Jake Hays for the Pew Research Center (2025)
“Change in American Families: Favoring Cohabitation Over Marriage” by Jagadeesh Gokhale for Penn’s Wharton School (2025)
“Key findings on marriage and cohabitation in the US” by Nikki Graf for Pew Research Center (2019)
“At war with Freya India” by Ella Dorn for Fairyland
I knew shit was going to hit the fan when my pre-reading analysis netted 25 pages of notes before I even cracked open the book
The amount of times children or teens are referred to as “liberal” or “conservative” in this episode is, to quote Caro, giving me a nosebleed
And, it cannot be overstated, a two-page polemic against no-fault divorce
