For City Journal, John Maier and I have written more about the debacle of 21 Yale philosophers engaging in ad hoc sophistry on the side of the sterilisation and chemical castration (the topic of an essay from last month, ‘Philosophical Malpractice’). A point that we had not

Why do people think they can reliably detect AI-generated essays when empirical studies consistently show the opposite?

Bullish 📈

What is "sex essentialism"? After spending many hours trying to find the answer, as part of my research for my back and forth with Cordelia Fine in Aeon Magazine, I can say I wholeheartedly agree with Rona Dinur's view, in her post 👇🏽. Our Aeon article is worth a read if you're

It's a bit painful for me to share this, but I respect Kelsey Piper (and Eva Vivalt) a lot, and I think they're basically right: the most rigorous recent studies on basic income and cash transfers (in rich countries) have yielded pretty disappointing results.

At first read, this is a *terrific* policy that gets pretty much everything right. Both the press release and the policy itself look pretty much spot on, following the lead of World Athletics. Congratulations to World Boxing and all involved. (if I've missed anything, I'm

My review of Sex is a Spectrum by Agustín Fuentes: blog.edhagen.net/posts/2025-08-…

This kind of makes it sound like Khelif had a choice. Like, he won't be boxing while sex tests are in place, to protest the alleged injustice of sex testing. But, really, he won't be boxing while sex tests are in place, because those tests rule him ineligible to box women.

The spotter after both of these performances.