Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic, the author of both Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights and The Selfish Genius (coming 2023). As the host of the BBC Radio 4’s The Spark, The Church of Social Justice, and (our favorite) The New Gurus, few journalists have a more consistent track record in asking hard, vulnerable questions about the beliefs and values of their own tribe. As an atheist brought up in the Catholic Church, she's especially interested in exploring how otherwise secular beliefs are nevertheless functioning like a religion the less religious we become. And she is positively fearless in following wherever that question leads.

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