Love working w/the women doing today’s most interesting, important writing. Erika Bachiochi Abigail Favale Louise Perry Helen Joyce Mary Harrington Leah Libresco Sargeant Ivana Greco JLahl Eliza Mondegreen Katherine Dee Angela Franks Helen Roy Nina Power A/Prof Holly Lawford-Smith

Fairer Disputations Want more on labor issues and women? Read Erika Bachiochi. Curious about suffragette views on abortion? Monica Klem's book is for you. Looking for a nuanced theological perspective on women? Abigail Favale! Read Catherine Ruth Pakaluk for a clearer view on why educated women have large families.

Gave a lecture at U Madison Monday (as part of series on Conservative Thought) on feminism & anti-feminism. It was fun; students were engaged & curious.

Was especially pleased that I could answer so many questions in part by recommending books from fellow Fairer Disputations writers.

The worldview in some corners of the feminist Left is that you simply cannot trust other people, and that you must therefore build a zero-trust life. Modernity seems to make that possible: make everything transactional and mediate everything through technology.

That sad,…

You love to hear it.

What this strange online subculture can teach us about transgenderism...

'The Internet can create silences and distances, too—by feeding lonely fantasies that feast like parasites on one’s real life.' Eliza Mondegreen

fairerdisputations.org/tulpamancy/

Looking for the perfect weekend read? We've got you—w/recs from Hannah Barnes, Katy Faust, Lisa Selin Davis, Nina Power, Leah Libresco Sargeant, Kathleen Stock, & more (plus, what Helen Roy is reading!)

fairerdisputations.org/the-week-04122…

Judith Butler’s new book has now been reviewed by A/Prof Holly Lawford-Smith, Nina Power, Kathleen Stock, and me. (All philosophers.) Unless I missed it, none of these reviews has featured on Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg’s website. Can we look forward to some links?

The consequences of this scandal will play out for decades. You cheered it on. You did all you could to impede and misrepresent research. You tried to bully people out of their jobs for opposing you. Young people have been experimented on, left infertile and in pain. 6/6

I cannot recommend enough Henry Olsen's column on the upcoming Florida abortion referendum. Activists should be targeting the median voter - with some concerns about abortion, but also concerns about going 'too far' - rather than the conservative base: nationalreview.com/2024/04/how-pr…

Yep.

What is the purpose of education?

All of Mainstream Ed: to produce productive members of the 21st-century global economy.

Plato: To teach us to love what is beautiful.

This is the undercovered story of America's decline in fertility - it is a large part a story of marriage.
a) Marriage rates dropping, and
b) The rate of childbearing outside of marriage also dropping

We've known this for years. Glad the Guardian and other outlets are now reporting it. And that the UK is backing off. USA take note.
'Analysis finds most research underpinning clinical guidelines, hormone treatments and puberty blockers to be low quality'
theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Reminder! Tonight I’m moderating an @isi debate between Ross Douthat and Kim Callinan of Compassion & Choices on medical aid in dying. You can watch the livestream here.

isi.org/events/a-debat…

Hiring!! Catholic Law's Center for Law & the Human Person (along with Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Center for Religious Liberty) has posted two administrative positions. Marc O. De Girolami

Director of Operations (lnkd.in/ey-_yb_R)
Operations Assistant (lnkd.in/ez2XCJHk)

Alex Byrne, who broke the news of Judith Butler's plagiarism in his essay for Fairer Disputations, is defending the proposition that sex is binary, alongside the interesting Holly Lawford-Smith. Weds., 4/17, at 7pm, livestream available.
sloangroups.mit.edu/adamsmithsocie…

'Nobody cares about the soul of a washed-up hooker.'

The post-Christian Right is going to be defined, primarily, by its cruelty.

📢 RESOLVED: That sex is biological and binary, and gender identity is no substitute for sex in social policy.

-- a real debate! just under two weeks away! april 17th @ 7pm EDT!

livestream at the link below, or come in person if you live near MIT 🥳

youtube.com/watch?v=PoT_ay…

realclearbooks.com
Monday reads: David Polansky for Café Américain magazine, alex byrne for Fairer Disputations, Ryan Ruby for The New Statesman, wry bread for COMPACT, John-Baptiste Oduor for ArtReview_, The Ivy Exile for Washington Examiner, Titus Techera for Law & Liberty, and many others.