Self-Help Is Back in the Conversation

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Self-help seems to have come back into the conversation in a massive way, possibly thanks to platforms like this on YouTube. We have figures now like Jordan Peterson, Shapiro, Matt Walsh who are masculinity influencers where it might have been shameful to seek out self-help books in the alzabah library or a bookshop. For men in the 90s and 90s, it now seems to be totally out in the open that you should try and better yourself through following these hypermasculine figures. I just wonder what you think of them.

Marianne Williamson, the bestselling self-help author and former Democratic primary candidate, is back in the race to become US President. She is due to announce officially tomorrow, which will make her the first Democrat to put their name in the ring for 2024, before even Joe Biden. In 2020, Williamson (a total political unknown at the time) vied for the progressive vote, but lost out to the better-known Senator Bernie Sanders. Yet since then she has grown a loyal following of young voters who call themselves the ‘Orb Gang’ in reference to her New Age spiritualism. Can a new generation of American voters take her to the White House? UnHerd's Flo Read spoke to her from the UnHerd studio to find out.

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