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John Maier

@johnmaier_

leader writer @thetimes | columnist @unherd |Philosophy DPhil @BalliolOxford |

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'The regrettable fact remains that someone like Helen Joyce is an example of a figure too little seen within universities these days: a truth-teller.' John Maier reflects on Helen Joyce's appearance at Oxford šŸ‘‡ buff.ly/3X3GFRI

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'The unduly censorious mood which has lately possessed academic life may soon come to seem like a short-lived and eccentric blip.' Campus trans activism is a shadow of its former self, writes John Maier buff.ly/3X3GFRI

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Our view on the proposed use of puberty blockers in proposed clinical trials within the NHS ā€œPuberty is not an optional extra in a healthy human being’s biological life planā€ thetimes.com/article/4f30b1…

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Perhaps acting on insider info that I’ve wanted to review books for The Times and The Sunday Times since I was about 11 years old, literary editor and sadist Robbie Millen has only let me review books that are psychologically damaging to read in the last few years.

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New powers to save London’s dying nightlife are a capital idea. But will they be used? thetimes.com/article/eef261…

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY SALON Come along to our university salon at Balliol College, Oxford on everything universities with Felice BasbĆøll, Edward Howell, and John Maier Get your FREE tickets through the link below!

OXFORD UNIVERSITY SALON

Come along to our university salon at Balliol College, Oxford on everything universities with <a href="/fbasboll/">Felice BasbĆøll</a>, <a href="/TheEdwardHowell/">Edward Howell</a>, and <a href="/johnmaier_/">John Maier</a> 

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ā€˜The assumptions of this cultural turn have become so widespread that it can be difficult to recall how tedious and dysfunctional they are.’ Read John Maier on how identity punctured publishing šŸ‘‡buff.ly/TVIVKrC

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Conduit Books is the first male-only publishing house. Just a shame it perpetuates the lazy arguments it’s meant to fight. Read John Maier on the diversity trap šŸ‘‡buff.ly/TVIVKrC

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ā€œIt is silly enough to claim that the differences between men and women are of no social, legal or political importance; to insist, further, that they are of no sexual importance is barely coherent.ā€ Me for ⁦⁦UnHerd⁩ unherd.com/2025/06/i-kiss…

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In a way quite contrary to its presumably inclusion-driven agenda, ā€˜I Kissed a Boy’ unwittingly presents viewers with a vivid demonstration of the shallow confusions of its own theory of sexual reality. John MaieršŸ‘‡ buff.ly/MiyOS3a

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Edmund White wrote with glorious candour. Witty tribute by John Maier : "Whatever he died of it cannot have been of embarrassment, which would have finished him off years ago if the condition were fatal" thetimes.com/culture/books/…

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A Covid policy retrospective at Balliol College, Oxford, tomorrow. Panel discussion with Sunetra Gupta, Carl Heneghan, Nick McBride and myself. Free and open to the public, link in reply. IRL only as far as I know. 1/

A Covid policy retrospective at Balliol College, Oxford, tomorrow. 
Panel discussion with Sunetra Gupta, Carl Heneghan, Nick McBride and myself. Free and open to the public, link in reply. IRL only as far as I know. 1/
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"Covid 5 Years on: Was Lockdown a mistake?" A Balliol College Philosophy Society event tomorrow, at 6pm, with Carl Heneghan, Peter Godfrey-Smith, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration Sunetra Gupta, and Nick McBride. Some free tickets still available here.. eventbrite.co.uk/e/covid-five-y…