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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!