Archive - The Bluestocking

The Bluestocking 375: Evita, Skrmetti, Wolfe

Not bam bam bam bam bam bam, but bama bampa barama bam bammity bam bam bammity barampa

Jul 4

June 2025

The Bluestocking 374: Bad deaths and bad bets

the mistake that catches out a long-embedded Russian spy

Jun 27

The Flawed Genius of the People's Psychologist

An exclusive extract from The Genius Myth

Jun 20

The Bluestocking 373: Dark Elf and Madeley

people assume she’s a feminist when in fact she’s just a narcissist

Jun 13

Genius unboxing

Appreciating the Easter egg on the cover of the US edition of The Genius Myth.

Jun 7

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The Bluestocking 372: New Media and natalism

Have you eaten a burrito prepared by an Ethiopian camel farmer?

Jun 6

A high IQ makes you an outsider, not a genius

The first extract from The Genius Myth is here!

Jun 4

May 2025

The Bluestocking 371: A walking ovation

Things got easier when I remembered the Lib Dems

May 30

The Bluestocking 370: Biden enablers and cat-sitters

I call seltzer “sparkling water” and settle for bagels that taste like caulk

May 23

Lucy Worsley and Helen Lewis on history and her book THE GENIUS MYTH

A recording from Helen Lewis and Lucy Worsley's live video

May 19

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The Bluestocking 369: Weirdness and Leveson

"Now I battle boredom, and that’s a winnable fight."

May 16

The Bluestocking 368: Manosphere and Mitfords

two nearly extinct megafauna in a doomed fight to the death

May 9

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