Lean Out with Tara Henley

By Tara Henley

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Tara Henley is a Canadian journalist and bestselling author. On the Lean Out podcast, she interviews heterodox writers and thinkers from around the world, in an attempt to widen the Overton window of acceptable thought in society. You can learn more about her work at tarahenley.substack.com

Episode Date
EP 226: Cory Clark on the 'Great Feminization' Theory
Dec 10, 2025
EP 225: Amanda Fortini on Jan Kerouac and the legacy of the Beat Generation
Dec 03, 2025
EP 224: Zac Seidler: We Need to Talk About Men's Mental Health
Nov 26, 2025
EP 223: Susan Swan on Modern Feminism
Nov 19, 2025
EP 222: Molly Jong-Fast on Gen X Overwhelm
Nov 12, 2025
EP 221: Daniel Debow: It's Time for 'Bold Adventurism'
Nov 04, 2025
EP 220: Darrell Bricker on Canada's Breaking Point
Oct 29, 2025
EP 219: Jason Guriel on Fandom
Oct 22, 2025
EP 218: Adam Szetela on the Publishing Industry's 'Circular Firing Squad'
Oct 15, 2025
EP 217: Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works
Oct 08, 2025
EP 216: David Cayley on the CBC's Populist Era
Oct 01, 2025
EP 215: Brian Stewart on the 'Spinning Vortex' of News
Sep 24, 2025
EP 214: Justin Ling on Canada's 'Existential' Election
Sep 17, 2025
EP 213: Aaron Pete on the Unmarked Graves Controversy
Sep 10, 2025
EP 212: Andrew Coyne on Canada's Dysfunctional Democracy
Sep 03, 2025
EP 211: ENCORE - Tristin Hopper on What Happened to Canada
Aug 27, 2025
EP 210: ENCORE - Ruy Teixeira on the End of the Progressive Moment in America
Aug 20, 2025
EP 209: ENCORE - Nellie Bowles on America's Berserk Politics
Aug 13, 2025
EP 208: Thomas Chatterton Williams on 2020 and its Aftermath
Aug 08, 2025
EP 207: Andrew Doyle on the Decline of the Woke Left - and the Rise of the Woke Right
Aug 06, 2025
EP 206: Meghan Daum and Lily Isaacs on 'Heterofatalism'
Jul 30, 2025
EP 205: Jeni Gunn: I Am the Working Poor
Jul 23, 2025
EP 204: Full Press: Why is the Trans Debate the Third Rail of Canadian Journalism?
Jul 16, 2025
EP 203: Beth Kaplan on Getting Stuck - and Breaking Loose
Jul 09, 2025
EP 202: Daniel Oppenheimer on How the Left Loses People
Jul 02, 2025
EP 201: Joan C. Williams on How the Left Lost the Working Class
Jun 25, 2025
EP 200: Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee on How Our Politics Failed Us in the Pandemic
Jun 18, 2025
EP 199: Jenara Nerenberg on Resisting Groupthink in Polarized Times
Jun 11, 2025
EP 198: Eric Kaufmann: Is Woke Dead?
Jun 04, 2025
EP 197: ENCORE: Larissa Phillips on Bridging Our Divides
May 28, 2025
EP 196: ENCORE: Musa al-Gharbi on the Cultural Contradictions of the Elites
May 21, 2025
EP 195: Meghan Daum on Life's Catastrophe Hours
May 14, 2025
EP 194: Darrell Bricker on Our Divided Nation
May 07, 2025
EP 193: David Zweig on Pandemic School Closures
Apr 30, 2025
EP 192: Election 2025 - Victor Febres on Political Polarization
Apr 26, 2025
EP 191: Election 2025 - Ramona Coelho on Assisted Dying
Apr 23, 2025
EP 190: Election 2025 - Mike Moffatt Answers Every Question You've Ever Had About the Housing Crisis
Apr 22, 2025
EP 189: Election 2025 - Tristin Hopper on the State of the Nation
Apr 17, 2025
EP 188: Vicky Nguyen on Her Journey From Boat Baby to the Today Show
Apr 16, 2025
EP 187: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on Heteropessimism
Apr 09, 2025
EP 186: Election 2025 - Melanie Paradis on Women's Fertility
Apr 07, 2025
EP 185: Adam Gussow on Interracial Family Life in America's South
Apr 02, 2025
EP 184: Election 2025 - Brian Dijkema on the Collapse of Support for the NDP
Mar 31, 2025
EP 183: Election 2025 - Laurent Carbonneau on Canada's 'Corporate Welfare Bums'
Mar 29, 2025
EP 182: Ann Bauer on Booksellers' Moral Contract
Mar 28, 2025
EP 181: Election 2025 - Tom Korski
Mar 26, 2025
EP 180: Dave Snow on DEI in Federal Granting Agencies
Mar 20, 2025
EP 179: Andrew Potter on the End of the Trudeau Era
Mar 19, 2025
EP 178: On the Media with Aaron Pete
Mar 12, 2025
EP 177: Joanna Williams on Trump and Women's Rights
Mar 05, 2025
EP 176: Andrea Mrozek on Why Marriage Still Matters
Feb 26, 2025
EP 175: Full Press
Feb 19, 2025
EP 174: Scott Oake on Addiction, Loss, and Hope
Feb 12, 2025
EP 173: Jeff Rubin on Economic Warfare
Feb 05, 2025
EP 172: Catherine Tsalikis on the Life and Times of Chrystia Freeland
Jan 29, 2025
EP 171: Christine Van Geyn on Prorogation
Jan 22, 2025
EP 170: Jen Gerson on the Chaos in Canada
Jan 15, 2025
EP 169: Richie Hardcore on The Way Forward for Men
Jan 08, 2025
EP 168: Sebastian Junger: Encounters With An Afterlife
Jan 01, 2025
EP 167: Richard V. Reeves on Why Modern Men Are Struggling
Dec 18, 2024
EP 166: Nicholas Eberstadt on Men Without Work
Dec 11, 2024
EP 165: Daniel Cox on the Growing Gender Gap
Dec 04, 2024
EP 164: Zaid Jilani on Why It's Not Always Easy Being a Man
Nov 27, 2024
EP 163: Ruy Teixeira: The Progressive Moment is Over
Nov 22, 2024
EP 162: Andy Mills on What the Media Missed
Nov 20, 2024
EP 161: Larissa Phillips on Loving Your Neighbour
Nov 13, 2024
EP 160: The Big Fix in the Canadian Economy
Nov 06, 2024
EP 159: Gary Taubes on Why We Get Fat
Oct 30, 2024
EP 158: Harrison Scott Key on How to Stay Married
Oct 23, 2024
EP 157: Rachel Cohen: Why I Changed My Mind About Volunteering
Oct 16, 2024
EP 156: Musa al-Gharbi on Why We Have Never Been Woke
Oct 09, 2024
EP 155: Anastasia Berg on Childbearing Ambivalence
Oct 02, 2024
EP 154: Ross Barkan on the Leaderless Left
Sep 25, 2024
EP 153: Ruby Cramer on Political Extremism
Sep 18, 2024
EP 152: 'The Betrayal of the Canadian Dream'
Sep 11, 2024
EP 151: The Way Forward for Canadian Immigration
Sep 04, 2024
EP 150: 'The Summer of Unravelling'
Aug 28, 2024
EP 149: A Bright Spot in the New Media Landscape
Aug 21, 2024
EP 148: Oren Cass on the New Right
Aug 14, 2024
EP 147: 'Why the Left Gets J.D. Vance Wrong'
Aug 07, 2024
EP 146: Reasons for Hope
Jul 31, 2024
EP 145: Tensions Within the Conservative Movement
Jul 24, 2024
EP 144: The Glamorization of Divorce
Jul 17, 2024
EP 143: The Politics of the Working Class
Jul 10, 2024
EP 142: The Trust Spiral with Rudyard Griffiths
Jul 03, 2024
EP 141: Trudeau's 'Princely Capriciousness'
May 29, 2024
EP 140: Sebastian Junger's Near Death Experience
May 22, 2024
EP 139: The Year American Politics Went Berserk
May 15, 2024
EP 138: The Miseducation of Elites
May 08, 2024
EP 137: Justin Trudeau on the Ropes
May 01, 2024
EP 136: Michael Lista's Literary Battle Raps
Apr 24, 2024
EP 135: Massey Essay series - George Packer
Apr 17, 2024
EP 134: Massey Essay series - Michael Powell
Apr 16, 2024
EP 133: Massey Essay series - Freddie deBoer
Apr 12, 2024
EP 132: Massey Essay series - Peter Menzies
Apr 12, 2024
EP 131: Massey Essay series - Steve Krakauer
Apr 11, 2024
EP 130: Massey Essay series - David Greenberg
Apr 10, 2024
EP 129: Massey Essay series - Jen Gerson
Apr 10, 2024
EP 128: How Having A Family Got So Hard
Apr 03, 2024
EP 127: Will The Media Change Course?
Mar 27, 2024
EP 126: Canada's Pandemic Response - More Harm Than Good?
Mar 20, 2024
EP 125: A Defence of Colourblindness
Mar 13, 2024
EP 124: Why Marshall McLuhan (Still) Matters
Mar 06, 2024
EP 123: Why Dismissing the Importance of Family is the Ultimate Luxury Belief
Feb 28, 2024
EP 122: How To Save Local News
Feb 21, 2024
EP 121: The Case For Marriage
Feb 14, 2024
EP 120: Why You Should Never Apologize to the Mob
Feb 07, 2024
EP 119: The Federal Court's Rebuke
Jan 31, 2024
EP 118: The Collapse of the Canadian Immigration Consensus
Jan 24, 2024
EP 117: Where Have All the Children Gone?
Jan 17, 2024
EP 116: Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Jan 10, 2024
EP 115: Lean Out Turns Two - A Conversation on Complicating the Dominant Narratives
Jan 03, 2024
EP 114: Overcoming the Illusion of Division
Dec 20, 2023
EP 113: How the Pandemic Broke America
Dec 13, 2023
EP 112: Have Progressives Stopped Supporting Interracial Marriage?
Dec 06, 2023
EP 111: George Packer on Activism and Bad Art
Nov 29, 2023
EP 110: Have the Arts Created a Culture of Fear?
Nov 22, 2023
EP 109: Navigating a perilous moment
Nov 15, 2023
Ep 108: Breaking Down The Munk Debate: Is Liberalism Failing Us?
Nov 08, 2023
EP 107: Did Covid-19 Erode Our Civil Liberties Forever?
Nov 01, 2023
EP 106: Is Cancel Culture Killing Free Speech?
Oct 24, 2023
EP 105: Does Canada’s Justice System Need to be Dismantled?
Oct 18, 2023
EP 104: Cancelled: A Canadian Professor’s War on 'Woke'
Oct 11, 2023
EP: 103: Meghan Daum: It's Up to Women to Stop Cancel Culture
Oct 04, 2023
EP 102: Has McKinsey made the world worse?
Sep 27, 2023
EP 101: Can we have a reasonable conversation about trans issues?
Sep 20, 2023
EP 100: The Identity Trap
Sep 12, 2023
EP 99: 'I worry that the dike is going to burst - and we're woefully unprepared'
Sep 06, 2023
EP 98: How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
Sep 05, 2023
EP 97: 'We're against the state mandating viewpoints'
Aug 30, 2023
EP 96: The death of a Toronto school principal
Aug 24, 2023
EP 95: 'Centre the interests and needs of the public'
Aug 23, 2023
EP 94: Tyranny, Inc.
Aug 16, 2023
EP 93: A Heretic's Manifesto
Aug 09, 2023
EP 92: Canada's news desert
Aug 04, 2023
EP 91: 'Home Is Where the Revolution Is'
Aug 02, 2023
EP 90: 'Diversity' drop-outs
Jul 26, 2023
EP 89: The collapse of Canadian media, part 2
Jul 19, 2023
EP 88: The Collapse of Canadian Media
Jul 12, 2023
EP 87: A Childless World
Jul 05, 2023
EP 86: Free Speech and the Left
Jun 28, 2023
EP 85: 'The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege'
Jun 07, 2023
EP 84: Hell to Pay
May 31, 2023
EP 83: On Politicization and Trust
May 24, 2023
EP 82: 'An epidemic of loneliness and isolation'
May 17, 2023
EP 81: Rethinking Feminism
May 09, 2023
EP 80: Good Girls
May 02, 2023
EP 79: Generations
Apr 26, 2023
EP 78: 'As much pain as progress'
Apr 19, 2023
EP 77: Feminism Against Progress
Apr 12, 2023
EP 76: 'A crisis of heterosexuality'
Apr 05, 2023
EP 75: 'Most people don't believe the more extreme woke stuff'
Mar 30, 2023
EP 74: 'An existential threat to universities'
Mar 22, 2023
EP 73: Uncovered
Mar 14, 2023
EP 72: 'I thought we had more of an open forum for discussion'
Mar 08, 2023
EP 71: An Emergency in Ottawa
Mar 01, 2023
EP 70: Primal Screams
Feb 15, 2023
EP 69: The Year the World Went Mad
Feb 08, 2023
EP 68: The New Puritans
Feb 01, 2023
EP 67: 'If you have the wrong opinions, it will cost you'
Jan 25, 2023
EP 66: 'As scientists, we have strong criteria for what we accept is true'
Jan 18, 2023
EP 65: 'Journalists are not supposed to be liked'
Jan 11, 2023
EP 64: 'You feel the desperation of people who are understanding their own irrelevance'
Jan 05, 2023
EP 63: 'There’s a lot of people just trying to hold on to their jobs'
Dec 28, 2022
EP 62: Merry Christmas from Lean Out
Dec 22, 2022
EP 61: 'Journalists have forgotten who their readers are'
Dec 16, 2022
EP 60: 'Politically homeless'
Dec 14, 2022
EP 59: 'The whole media crawled into a very narrow hole - and is still there'
Dec 09, 2022
EP 58: 'They see their role as fighting for social justice'
Dec 07, 2022
EP 57: Shopomania
Nov 30, 2022
EP 56: Men Without Work
Nov 22, 2022
EP 55: Of Boys and Men
Nov 16, 2022
EP 54: Literature and the New Culture Wars
Nov 08, 2022
EP 53: 'The woke mob took my job but gave me my voice'
Nov 02, 2022
EP 52: The Stolen Year
Oct 25, 2022
EP 51: Portrait of a Prime Minister
Oct 19, 2022
EP 50: So much for #MeToo
Oct 14, 2022
EP 49: Secret City
Oct 12, 2022
EP 48: The Rise of the New Puritans
Oct 05, 2022
EP 47: How Woke Won
Sep 28, 2022
EP 46: The War on Objectivity in American Journalism
Sep 21, 2022
EP 45: School in the time of Covid
Sep 16, 2022
EP 44: Agency
Sep 14, 2022
EP 43: An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Sep 07, 2022
EP 42: Ghosts of War
Aug 17, 2022
EP 41: The New Workers' Movement
Aug 12, 2022
EP 40: On Critical Race Theory
Aug 10, 2022
EP 39: 'Court Documents Reveal Canada's Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis'
Aug 05, 2022
EP 38: The End of Solitude
Aug 03, 2022
EP 37: Cancel Culture: It's Real and On the Rise
Jul 30, 2022
EP 36: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Jul 27, 2022
EP 35: I Stopped Reading the News
Jul 22, 2022
EP 34: The Constitution of Knowledge
Jul 20, 2022
EP 33: Who Really Benefits From the First Amendment?
Jul 15, 2022
EP 32: The Freedom of Expression Wake Up Call
Jul 13, 2022
EP 31: Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers
Jul 07, 2022
EP 30: The Right
Jul 06, 2022
EP 29: Overdose
Jun 29, 2022
EP 28: What the Right Doesn't Get About the Labor Left
Jun 28, 2022
EP 27: The Consequences of Vaccine Mandates
Jun 22, 2022
EP 26: The Cancelling of the American Mind
Jun 17, 2022
EP 25: The Work of Living
Jun 15, 2022
EP 24: What Do Men Want?
Jun 08, 2022
EP 23: Freedom of Thought
Jun 01, 2022
EP 22: The Problem With Everything
May 25, 2022
EP 21: Nothing Left to Lose
May 19, 2022
EP 20: Rethinking Sex
May 11, 2022
EP 19: Saga Boy
May 04, 2022
EP 18: Luxury Beliefs
Apr 28, 2022
EP 17: Love Lockdown
Apr 20, 2022
EP 16: Dignity
Apr 13, 2022
EP 15: Letters to the Sons of Society
Apr 06, 2022
EP 14: Canceling Comedians While the World Burns
Mar 30, 2022
EP 13: The Black Boom
Mar 23, 2022
EP 12: On Decline
Mar 17, 2022
EP 11: The Class
Mar 10, 2022
EP 10: I Never Thought of It That Way
Mar 02, 2022
EP 9: The Expendables
Feb 24, 2022
EP 8: Virtue Hoarders
Feb 16, 2022
EP 7: The History of Free Speech
Feb 09, 2022
EP 5: Diversity of Thought
Feb 03, 2022
EP 6: Light Up the Night
Feb 03, 2022
EP 4: Stolen Focus
Jan 26, 2022
EP 3: On the Origin of the Pandemic
Jan 21, 2022
EP 2: Free Speech
Jan 19, 2022
EP 1: Bad News
Jan 18, 2022