Popular pieces

Here are some pieces I've written for a general audience. 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). 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
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"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)