Why 1/3 of Gen Z Don’t Drink; & How Feelings Took Over The World

Everyone’s talking about Kanye’s nutty meeting with Trump in The Oval Office last week; whilst Melania, in her most frank televised interview yet, described herself as the most bullied person in the world. Meanwhile, Fendi has made a £750 scarf which looks like a vulva (transcendental experience of being ‘born again’ presumably baked in to the price), the Duchess of Sussex is having a baby and we discuss the juiciest tidbits of the 850-guest royal wedding that we both, accidentally, got really quite into.    Also this week we discuss why 1/3 of Gen Z don’t drink (and interview two Gen Z authors Scarlett Curtis and Charly Cox about their differing attitudes to alcohol) and some brilliant pieces of journalism this weekend by Josh Glancy and Max Hastings, that discuss how feelings have trumped rational thought. Is The Enlightenment’s 300-year intellectual tenure under threat? And what are the dangers of placing heart and gut above facts and mind?    E-mail [email protected] Tweet @thehighlowshow    Links   It’s time to do away with the gay best friend, by Philip Ellis for Man Repeller https://www.manrepeller.com/2018/10/gay-best-friend-stereotype.html   I’ll Be There For You, by Kelsey Miller https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Kelsey-Miller/Ill-Be-There-For-You/22458067   Motherhood, by Sheila Heti https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Sheila-Heti/Motherhood/22325906   The xx, by Angela Chadwick https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Angela-Chadwick/XX/22437212   Christene Barberich interviews Hanya Yanaghihara for Refinery29’s UnStyled podcast https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/hanya-yanagihara-on-making-your-mark-in-brave-new-media/id1171140955?i=1000421309939&mt=2   @brian_bilston on Instagram for poetry    How have we let feelings obscure rational debate, by Josh Glancy’s column for The Sunday Times magazine https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/josh-glancy-brett-kavanaugh-case-has-ignited-online-fury-like-never-before-how-have-we-let-feelings-obscure-rational-debate-6nq6h6hpq   We’re in a dark age where hearts rule minds, by Max Hastings for The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-re-in-a-dark-age-where-hearts-rule-minds-5p7gl6g5q   For millennials, thinking and emotions are equals — more or less, by Karl Moore https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlmoore/2017/06/26/for-millennials-thinking-and-emotions-are-equals-more-or-less/amp/ Sophie Wilkinson on Cara Delevigne for Grazia: https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/how-cara-delevingne-broke-style-rules-and-our-hearts-at-the-royal-wedding/ Information on reforming abortion law in Northern Ireland:  https://www.wetrustwomen.org.uk/northern-ireland/ https://www.bpas.org/get-involved/northern-ireland-campaign/ https://www.fpa.org.uk/sites/default/files/briefing-abortion-bill-now-for-ni-oct-2018.pdf Does Kanye West Deserve To Be Called an Uncle Tom? by Nadifa Mohamed https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/15/kanye-west-uncle-tom-slavery-donald-trump Killing Eve on the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kbg8t  The Bisexual on Channel 4: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-bisexual Nigella Lawson on Table Manners with Jessie Ware: https://www.acast.com/tablemanners/s4ep1-nigellalawson David Sedaris on The Adam Buxton Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/adam-buxton/ep79-david-sedaris Kiera Knightley on Awards Chatter podcast: https://player.fm/series/awards-chatter-1401973/keira-knightley-colette  Louis Theroux on Adam Buxton: http://adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/ep29-louis-theroux For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy