Young Men Right, Young Women Left - And Why That Spells Disaster Michael Johnston

Young men drifting to the Right is the half of the story everyone is reporting. The other half — young women radicalising Left at an even faster rate — is barely discussed. And when politics becomes completely gendered, Michael Johnston warns, it spells disaster. In this episode of Free to Speak, Dane Giroud sits down with Michael Johnston — Senior Fellow at The New Zealand Initiative and leader of its work on education — to take apart what's really driving youth radicalisation on both sides....

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Young Men Right, Young Women Left - And Why That Spells Disaster Michael Johnston is an episode from Free Speech Union's Podcast by Free Speech Union.

This episode is 69:17 long.

This episode was published on May 26, 2026.

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