Helen Roy

Feb 11, 2025 | readcontra.com | Pedro Gonzalez |Pedro González |Joe Ondrak |Katherine Dee |Helen Roy

This is a short newsletter, but I think you’ll enjoy it. Be sure to also check out the latest episode of the podcast. This week, I’ll be talking with the man behind . The Medium Is the MonsterFew pieces have left me so unsettled as this one by about what the internet is doing to people. I think I looked over my shoulder after reading it. In her foreword, explains that the “internet is a layer over reality” now.

Jan 28, 2025 | ifstudies.org | Helen Roy

I’m not alone in my sense that the highlight of President Trump’s Inauguration on Monday was Vice President and Second Lady Vance’s young children behaving, despite the pomp and circumstance, as children do. When one of the little Vance boys reached over to tousle his mother’s hair (which doubtlessly took great effort to perfect), there were glimmers of Catherine the Princess of Wales negotiating with Prince Louis on the balcony at Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee.

Oct 24, 2024 | helenroy.substack.com | Helen Roy |Mary Harrington |Emily Chapman |Erika Bachiochi

Let me begin this essay by saying that I don’t have any problem with “tradwives,” if by “tradwives,” we mean women whose family model basically conforms to the midcentury breadwinner/homemaker ideal, who are socially conservative, openly Christian, and happy to inhabit the particular aesthetic common to that lifestyle. By that definition, I myself fit the bill. Many of my best friends fit the bill. Enough ink has been spilled criticizing our choices to dye the world black.

Oct 13, 2024 | conservativereview.com | Helen Roy

Oct 13, 2024 | theblaze.com | Helen Roy

Implausibly, October is here. My eldest turned four yesterday. Dare I say that disbelief at the pace of the passing of time — whether the unbearably long days or the unfathomably short years — is a universal maternal experience? Oh, the melancholia of motherhood ... the slippery seconds, the diamonds raining from the sky, the inability to catch them in your hands for longer than a moment.