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April 2024
A third edition of Nadine Strossen’s (1995) book
Defending Pornography
was recently published;
I review it for
Fairer Disputations
,
commenting as well on the parallels between the second-wave debate over pornography and the current feminist debate over gender identity.
I was a guest host on another episode of
Brain In A Vat
, this time
talking to Moti Gorin
about paediatric gender medicine.
The MIT Free Speech Alliance put on a debate with the resolution ‘Sex is biological and binary, and gender identity is no substitute for sex in social policy’. You can watch the recording
here
! (
Pictured
: Alice Dreger, Aaron Kimberly, Nadine Strossen, me, Alex Byrne).
Alex & I did
a pre-debate interview
(see above for the debate itself) with Scott Turner from the National Association of Scholars.
I
reviewed Judith Butler’s new book
for
Quillette.
Verdict: it is just more left-wing political propaganda.
March 2024
My
latest column for
Quillette
is up, this one about the Australian musician G Flip’s claim to be ‘nonbinary’.
My
latest article for
Fairer Disputations
is out — an International Women’s Day symposium on Louise Perry’s claim that radical feminism opened the door to gender identity ideology (I disagree!)
My
latest column
for
Quillette
is up!
February 2024
I was a guest host on the philosophy podcast
Brain in a Vat
,
talking with Nadine Strossen
about pornography, free speech, and hate speech.
I wrote
an essay for
Eureka Street
about whether debate can do harm, which has just gone up on their website (paywalled).
I wrote for
Fairer Disputations
about the idea of ‘biological essentialism’, arguing that it really doesn’t deserve its bad rap.
I’ve joined
Fairer Disputations
as
one of their Featured Authors
, so I’ll be writing for them more regularly from now on!
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