Popular pieces

Here are some pieces I've written for a general audience (including some interviews). The first batch is on sex and gender (one article is co-authored with the criminologist Callie Burt; another is a conversation with the philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith and the writer John McLaughlin; some other pieces are also co-authored). The second covers some of the thornier problems of philosophy. One article is co-authored with the philosopher Ned Hall; they all appeared in that estimable organ, the Boston Review.
Sex and Gender

Interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 23 (2026).

"The patriarchal mind virus", Quillette July 18 (2026); pdf at PhilPapers.

"On being rejected", The Philosophers' Magazine March 19 (2026).

(with M. Gorin, K. McDeavitt, Z. Abbruzzese) "Response to Wolfe et al.", STAT News February 7 (2026).

(with E. Abbruzzese et al.) "We wrote the HHS review on treatment for minors with gender dysphoria. We hope our critics actually read our report", STAT News December 8 (2025).

"Beyond the Binary is a sea of nonsense", Reality's Last Stand November 26 (2025); pdf at PhilPapers.

Interview with the Greek magazine The Books' Journal, June (2025).

"I co-wrote the anonymous HHS report on pediatric gender medicine", Washington Post June 26 (2025) (July 3 reply to subsequent open letter).

 “The British Invasion: TERF Island and Trump’s Executive Order on ‘Biological Truth’”, Fairer Disputations February 28 (2025).

Interview with the Czech news site Echo24, February 27 (2025).

"The new Free to Be might make you long for the Seventies", Fairer Disputations June 27 (2024).

"In defence of John Money", Quillette June 16 (2024).

"The journey of gender: there and back again", Fairer Disputations May 17 (2024).

"The phantasmagoric world of Judith Butler", Fairer Disputations April 5 (2024).

(with Carole K. Hooven) "The problem with saying 'sex assigned at birth'", New York Times April 3 (2024).

"Exposing sex pseudoscience in American Scientist", Reality's Last Stand March 13 (2024).

Interview with the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, February 24 (2024).

"Trouble with Gender", Politybooks Blog January 15 (2024).

"Trans typologies: a brief history", Quillette December 15 (2023).

Interview with The Freethinker, October 5 (2023).

Old-man-yells-at-cloud article for the Daily Mail, September 15 (2023).

(with Holly Lawford-Smith and John McLaughlin) "Gender-critical philosophy: a defence", Areo September 12 (2023). 

"The gender revolution comes for biology textbooks", Reality's Last Stand June 26 (2023).

"Philosophy's no-go zone", Quillette April 17 (2023) (a follow-up article by a pseudonymous Oxford philosopher).

(with Callie Burt) "Biological sex and the legal protection of LGBT individuals", Areo August 20 (2020).

"What is gender identity?", Arc Digital January 9 (2019).

"Is sex socially constructed?", Arc Digital November 30 (2018).

"Is sex binary?", Arc Digital November 1 (2018).