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2026 44

  1. Yes, I Am Literally Saying We Should Let Them Stay In The Country Without Full Legal Status
  2. Maybe The ACLU Should Hire People Who Believe In The ACLU
  3. I’m Fascinated By The Sex Gurus Of Cornell University
  4. My Hourlong Interview With Rhein Amacher, Whose Phone Calls Sparked The James Talarico Hoax
  5. Reality Is Micro-Fracturing
  6. Pete Hegseth’s Stunt Will Probably Get People Killed
  7. How To Navigate The Increasingly Unhinged AI-Commentary Cacophony
  8. The University Of Austin’s President Sent Out An AI-Generated Fundraising Email About Rigor And Excellence
  9. Nature, You Need To Figure Out What You Do
  10. CNN Put A Lifted, Unattributed Quote In The Mouths Of At Least 29 Of Its Journalists
  11. See You [This] Tuesday
  12. The Wrong Side of the Mountain
  13. Singal-Minded Is Going On A Break
  14. Study-Smoothing Will Never Not Drive Me Crazy
  15. Your Best Comments From May 2026
  16. Wait. . . *Did* The Endocrine Society Write That Letter Of Support?
  17. How WPATH Thumbed The Scale Of Youth Gender Medicine Research
  18. It’s Immoral Not To Call The Cops On Genuinely Menacing People You Encounter In Public
  19. On The New York Times’ White-Guy Discrimination Case (And Bubbles)
  20. Your Best Comments From April 2026
  21. I Completely Disagree With Ken Jennings About Experts
  22. The Woody Brown Saga Required A Number Of Institutional Failures
  23. I Can't Believe We’re Still Having *This* Debate About Steven Pinker
  24. My Latest Dispatch Column And A Quick, Annoyed Response
  25. Hasan Piker Is An Insufferable Jerk And Of Course Democrats Should Go On His Stream
  26. Your Best Comments From March 2026
  27. Here’s An Example Of How To Make A Debate Less Stupid
  28. My Review Of John K. Wilson’s Inside Higher Ed Review Of ‘Viewpoint Diversity: What It Is, Why We Need It, and How to Get It’
  29. The Horseshoe Always Wins: Gettin' Mad At Headlines Edition
  30. A Response To Critics Of My AI Article And An Apology To Librarians
  31. AI Is Too Consequential For Half-Baked Lefty Critiques
  32. Elon Musk, Standpoint Epistemologist
  33. What a Trans Shooter Doesn’t Mean
  34. Maybe It’s Bad That Recent Progressive Ideas On Race Are So Compatible With White Nationalism
  35. How Can Doctors Like This Provide Competent Care To Their Patients?
  36. Why Ubiquitous Video Isn’t Making People More Reality-Based
  37. The Trump Administration Is Eroding The Case For Keeping Protests Nonviolent
  38. Your December Questions, Answered (2 of 2)
  39. Condescension Won’t Save Us From The Generative AI Tsunami
  40. Prove Me Wrong: Luck Determines Almost Everything
  41. My Upcoming Events And Potential Meetups, Western U.S. Edition
  42. Your December Questions, Answered (1 of 2)
  43. Here's The Recording Of My Youth Gender Medicine Book Check-In And Q&A
  44. Join Me Tomorrow On Substack Live For A Book Update And Q&A

2025 74

  1. Ask Me Anything, Anyone
  2. Let’s Overanalyze: ‘Cattle and the Creeping Things’ By The Hold Steady
  3. Good News: Progressive Advocacy Groups Have Been Found Not Guilty By A Progressive Advocacy Group
  4. The Forever Mitzvah
  5. Microwaved Beef: Kareem Carr’s 2 + 2 = 5 Argument
  6. Make The World A Little Bit Better Today
  7. Why It Is (Maybe) Safe To Conclude Some Legendary Thinkers Are Charlatans Without Reading Much Of Their Work
  8. I Hate Journalism’s Culture Of Casual Calumny
  9. Is It Okay To Call Jeffrey Epstein An Ephebophile?
  10. The Great Feminization Theory Has A Lot Of Soft Spots
  11. If You Can’t Accurately Quote Someone, Why Should I Believe Anything You Write?
  12. It’s Hard To Explain To Normal, Healthy People What Just Happened To Blue Jays Fans
  13. You Can’t Understand ‘Feminization’ Discourse Without Understanding The Stunted And Censorious Nature Of Sex-Differences Research
  14. The Complex Calculations Underpinning Slacker Chatbots
  15. I Loved ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ But It's Starving For Transparency
  16. Congratulations On Getting Bari Weiss To Leave The New York Times
  17. I’m Looking For A New Researcher/Assistant Editor
  18. I Read Five Very Annoying Pages Of Kamala Harris’s Book
  19. Win A Copy Of ‘Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method To Break Free From Alcohol’ By Katie Herzog
  20. Childhood Gender Research Is Increasingly Meaningless Because No One Knows What 'Gender' Means Anymore
  21. Some Scattered Thoughts On A Very Bad Week
  22. The Disaster At McMaster Part 2: My Interview With Gordon Guyatt
  23. The Disaster At McMaster, Part 1
  24. Jonathan Greenblatt’s Argument For Zionism Is Very Shoddy
  25. Some Thoughts On “Mankeeping”
  26. Long Covid Can Be Both Psychosomatic And Real
  27. (Some Of) Your July 2025 Questions, Answered
  28. Expert Critics Of The HHS Report On Youth Gender Medicine Are Projecting—And Helping To Implode Their Own Credibility (Part 2 of 2)
  29. Ask Me Anything (OR ELSE)
  30. Singal vs. Singal: Anthony Weiner And Sex Addiction
  31. Has My Social Media Addiction Sadly Caused Me To Pathetically Overuse Adverbs?
  32. Oh Man — Imagine If Universities Were Politically Biased In Their Hiring
  33. Most Americans Like America A Lot, And The Left Should Stop Ignoring This Fact
  34. Here’s My Exchange With Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern About ‘United States v. Skrmetti’
  35. You Can Sometimes Just Not Talk About Race!
  36. Win A Copy Of ‘Stop All the Clocks,’ A Great And Extremely Original Novel
  37. A Chatbot Coined A Phrase I Really Like. Am I Allowed To Use It?
  38. A Critique Of “Mental and Emotional Health of Youth after 24 months of Gender-Affirming Medical Care Initiated with Pubertal Suppression”
  39. Here’s A Fake Profile Of Me To Go With The Real One UnHerd Just Published
  40. Contra Evan Urquhart On The Right To Journalistic Exclusion
  41. Expert Critics Of The HHS Report On Youth Gender Medicine Are Projecting—And Helping Implode Their Own Credibility (Part 1 of 2)
  42. Extremely Powerful Men Who Can’t Be Arsed
  43. It Doesn’t Matter if AI Is Just “Faking It”
  44. What Happened When I Asked ChatGPT To Pretend To Be Conscious
  45. Should Joe Biden ‘Rot In Hell’ And ‘Rest In Piss’? A Brief Investigation
  46. Of Course Liberal Institutions Are Engaging In Illegal Hiring Practices On The Basis Of Race
  47. Last Call For Events In London And Amsterdam
  48. What If Vulnerable People Actually Just Disagree With Your Leftist Beliefs?
  49. “People Don’t Believe In This Lefty Slogan Because They Have Been Manipulated By Elites” Is A Dumb Conspiracy Theory, Part 1
  50. Bari Weiss Let Marco Rubio Off The Hook
  51. Win A Copy Of The New Book "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions"
  52. Last Month I Had My First Intimate Experience With AI
  53. Donald Trump Is Kinda Like A Much More Powerful And Less Intelligent Ibram X. Kendi
  54. ‘Adolescence’ Works Because It Avoids Being Trapped By The Present
  55. This Is Sickening
  56. An Announcement, A Bunch Of Events, And Elon Musk
  57. Two Unsurprising Updates On The Ongoing Self-Immolation Of Expert Authority
  58. How White People Decide What’s Racist Or Sexist
  59. If The New England Journal Of Medicine Doesn’t Correct This Error, You Cannot Trust Anything It Publishes
  60. Why I (Think I) Didn’t Go Crazy
  61. Introducing Singal-Minded Chat (Plus A Time-Sensitive Coupon For You To Send To A Friend Or Three)
  62. Michael Shellenberger’s Latest Viral Conspiracy Theory Is As Idiotic As It Is Irresponsible
  63. 'The Evidence Is Overwhelming,' Weird Porn Edition
  64. The Technology Cope Is A Bad Idea In Europe, Too
  65. How To Know Who To Trust, Potomac Plane Crash Edition (Corrected)
  66. Allow Me A Brief Burst Of Angry Moralizing
  67. Trump Or No, Science Badly Needs To Look Inward And Heal Itself
  68. Elon Musk Is Livestreaming Himself Playing A Videogame, Except It’s The Federal Budget
  69. Universities That Target Their Students’ Free Speech Should Have To Pay A Public Price For It
  70. I Wish Trump Supporters Would Just Throw Us The Occasional Bone Over The Next Few Years
  71. You Can’t Pseudoscience (Or Even Science) Your Way Out Of A Genuine Trans Rights Debate
  72. You Can’t Write Vague And Censorship-Friendly Editorial Guidelines And Then Pretend They Won’t Apply In The Real World
  73. I Have So Many Questions About This Completely Bat-Infested New Hampshire Elementary School
  74. We Obviously Shouldn’t Ignore Left-Wing Online Radicalization

2024 74

  1. Yale’s “Integrity Project” Is Spreading Misinformation About The Cass Review And Youth Gender Medicine: Part 3
  2. What The Detransitioner Clementine Breen’s Gender “Therapy” Looked Like
  3. Cooper Flagg Should Sue The Guardian For Premeditated Offense Archaeology
  4. My Brain Is Fried — Let’s Do A Quick Singal-Minded Exclusive Ask Me Anything RIGHT NOW
  5. Did I Publish The Private Medical Records Of Transgender Children?
  6. Congratulations On Your Independent, Alternative Media, You Disgruntled Consumers
  7. Read My Story About A Major Detransition Lawsuit In The Economist
  8. What If Liberals Have Agency?
  9. I Highly Recommend Adam Jentleson’s Critique Of Adam Jentleson
  10. Michael Shellenberger Mixed Up Two Guys With Sorta Similar Names And Falsely Told His Readers — And Congress — One Of Them Might Be A Spy As A Result
  11. What Happened When I Asked Michael Shellenberger To Defend His Journalism
  12. Are Trump Voters Misinformed, Or Were Harris Voters Just Not Given A Chance To Be Misinformed?
  13. We Are Losers
  14. The Obligatory Pre-Election Newsletter
  15. Please Don’t Spread Bizarre Conspiracies About Undocumented Immigrants
  16. Dogmatism Is A Bigger Problem Than Religion, I Think, Maybe, Possibly
  17. It’s Rational And Humane To Lack Strong Political Beliefs
  18. We All Deserve Better Data — And Data Analysis — On Trans And Gender-Questioning Youth
  19. On The Importance Of Imagining Ourselves As Monsters
  20. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Sentence Downplaying The Importance Of Complexity Proves How Important Complexity Is
  21. On Donald Trump and the Perils of Being Far, Far Too Online
  22. I'm Doing A Live Event With Jeff Maurer In Chicago On Sunday, September 22nd
  23. Yale’s “Integrity Project” Is Spreading Misinformation About The Cass Review And Youth Gender Medicine: Part 2 (Corrected)
  24. September Book Break: Engage!
  25. PLEASE Fill Out This One-Item Survey About The Immediate Future Of This Newsletter!
  26. I'm Sure Throwing J.K. Rowling In Jail Over Her Tweets Will Calm Everything Down
  27. The Provenance Of True, Newsworthy Information Shouldn’t Matter (Much) To Journalists
  28. Yale’s “Integrity Project” Is Spreading Misinformation About The Cass Review And Youth Gender Medicine
  29. If Your Brain Doesn’t Hurt Sometimes, You’re Doing It Wrong
  30. It’s So Easy To Forget That Online Often Doesn’t Matter
  31. Some Thoughts On Joe Biden Dropping Out And The Conspiratorial Billionaire Knucklehead Who Is Driving Me Crazy
  32. Wired’s Disastrous Piece About J.D. Vance’s Venmo Friends Demonstrates How Badly We Need Good Editors
  33. This Is No Longer Remotely Tenable
  34. The United States Is A Pretty Damn Good Place With A Lot Of Room For Improvement
  35. Democrats Should Acknowledge Reality And Abandon Their Utterly Failed Anti-Trump Strategy (If You Can Even Call It That)
  36. Unsealed Court Documents Show That Admiral Rachel Levine Pressured WPATH To Remove Age Guidelines From The Latest Standards Of Care
  37. On The Urge To Think Things Suck Worse Now Than Ever Before
  38. Everyone Ignored What Should Have Been The Most Controversial Part Of ‘Baby Reindeer’
  39. People Who Can’t Understand The Written Word Probably Shouldn’t Be In Academia
  40. Sports Are Dumb And I’m Mad They Affect Me So Much
  41. Experts Have Many Reasons To Stop Publicly Discrediting Themselves
  42. On New York University’s Utterly Cringeworthy Attempt To Get Protesters To “Educate Themselves”
  43. Please Stop Publishing And Disseminating Underpowered Priming Studies
  44. You Don’t Have To ‘Do’ Anything When A Famous Person Says Something You Disagree With
  45. Everything About The “Zionist Authors List” Is Deeply Sad And Extremely Late-Internet
  46. It’s 2024 And Pundits Are Still Arguing That Voters Haven’t Been Sufficiently Informed About Donald J. Trump’s Badness
  47. Some Thoughts On The UCLA Chaos
  48. In Partial Defense Of Kristi Noem (Really!)
  49. So Columbia Really Screwed This Up, Huh?
  50. Michael Hobbes Is Spectacularly Wrong About Youth Gender Medicine
  51. Win A Copy Of "The Complications: On Going Insane In America" By Emmett Rensin
  52. Life *Is* Strange, Which Is Why Journalists Need To Adhere To Rigorous Standards And Transparency
  53. I Guess I’m Fundamentally Confused About The “Is-Trump-Fascist” Debate
  54. Is It Ever Okay To Help Someone Die Because They Have Unbearable Depression?
  55. Public Figures Shouldn’t Issue Provocative Proclamations About Police Shootings That Just Occurred
  56. One Easy Trick To Write Unreadable Cultural Criticism
  57. Why Is The Same Misleading Language About Youth Gender Medicine Copied And Pasted Into Dozens Of CNN.com Articles?
  58. Andrea Long Chu’s ‘New York’ Cover Story About Trans Kids Is, Above All Else, Lazy
  59. The Eternal Conundrum Of The Unknowable Voter
  60. Criminal Justice Reform Is Good, But, Like Everything, It Requires Common Sense And Moderation
  61. If You Can’t See That Adam Rubenstein Was Treated Unfairly, You’re Being A Jerk
  62. Let's Discuss One Of The Worst Ideas Influential Public Intellectuals Have Embraced Recently
  63. Bret Weinstein Sure Has A Lot Of Theories
  64. Temporary Celibacy As Avoidance
  65. Against Diner–Grilled Cheese Theories Of Donald Trump’s Popularity (Or Anything Else)
  66. ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Is Capitalism At Work
  67. Join Me In Conversation With Rob Henderson On February 20 To Celebrate The Publication Of His Book
  68. Adam Grant vs. Coleman Hughes, Part 2: Causation Does Not Imply. . . Anything
  69. We Can Try To Explain America’s Dysfunction Without Sliding Into Conspiracy Theories
  70. I'm Writing Another Book
  71. So It Turns Out Mobility Is Important
  72. If You Want To Be A Nonfiction Writer, Maybe Spend Your Twenties Mostly Doing Something Else?
  73. There Are Major Factual Issues With Jonathan M. Katz’s ‘Atlantic’ Article, “Substack Has A Nazi Problem”
  74. Platformer’s Reporting On Substack’s Supposed “Nazi Problem” Is Shoddy And Misleading

2023 89

  1. Taking And Leaving The Best And Worst Of 2023
  2. Why Would I Possibly Trust Bill Adair Or PolitiFact To Determine Which ‘Misinformation’ Should Be ‘Suppressed’?
  3. It’s Almost 2024 And Doctors Are Still Misleading The Public About Youth Gender Medicine
  4. Win A Copy Of “Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away” By Annie Duke
  5. On Failing To Bear Witness
  6. Just Stop Issuing Statements About Everything All The Time
  7. My Clients, The Liars
  8. Your October Questions, Answered: Part 2 (Feat. Special Guest Expert Dave Weigel!)
  9. Got A Question About Aviation? Ask Not Only *A* Pilot, But *THE* Pilot
  10. Happy Thanksgiving!
  11. Your Decision To Cave To Internet Weirdos And/Or Your Youngest And Most Annoying Staffers Is Unlikely To Age Well
  12. Win A Copy Of “Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions” By Alex Byrne
  13. This Plagiarism I Accidentally Discovered Is A Weirdly Poignant Internet Story
  14. Graduate Student Activists At Public Universities Do Not Have An Automatic Right To Anonymity
  15. The Parable Of The Friendly But Conspiratorial Lyft Driver
  16. Your October Questions, Answered
  17. Ask Me Anything
  18. BARPod Primo Party Details (For Singal-Minded Premium Subscribers)
  19. I Still Don’t Understand The Point Of These Arguments About Biological Sex
  20. Is There “An Extensive Body Of Rigorous Research” Undermining The Case For Color Blindness, As Adam Grant Claimed?
  21. Racial And Ethnic Essentialism Make Everything Worse, Israel/Palestine Edition
  22. Not Defending Hamas Is A Very, Very Low Bar For Decent Humans To Clear
  23. Win A Copy Of "The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time" By Yascha Mounk
  24. Organizational Leaders Like Chris Anderson Should Stop Indulging Their Most Hysterical Employees
  25. This Is The Wrong Way To Cover The Chandler Jones Story
  26. A Longtime Colorado Gun Reform Activist Explains What Happened When Saira Rao’s Here 4 The Kids Parachuted Into Her Issue
  27. Are Nate Silver, Nate Cohn, And Steve Kornacki “Helping To Destroy Left-Liberal Politics”?
  28. Why Disability Advocates Are Trying to Shut Down A Policy That Benefits Disabled People
  29. It Was Just Some Summer Slippage: Let’s Overanalyze “Mission Viejo” By Lifter Puller
  30. On—Deep Breath—Donald Trump And “Gender Queer” And Parker Molloy And Chris Geidner And Matt Yglesias
  31. How Can Anyone Argue That Trump Hasn’t Been Called Fascist Enough Yet?
  32. Denying Sex Differences Doesn’t Actually Help People, Part One Million
  33. Why Did “On The Media” Stoke The Moral Panic Against Innocent New York Times Journalists Rather Than Investigate It?
  34. I Have To Admit I Still Don't Fully Understand Why You Can't Change Your Race
  35. Of Course The Sea Lion Is Right
  36. Some Brief Thoughts On The Journal ‘Addiction’ And The Euphemism Treadmill
  37. Why So Many People Told Me To Kill Myself This Weekend
  38. Of Course DEI Programming Should Be Seen As Psychological Interventions And Held To The Appropriate Standards
  39. This Is A Low Bar For Alzheimer’s Researchers To Trip Over
  40. The “Traditional” Liberal Concept Of Gender Seems Worth Saving
  41. So It Looks Like Psychedelics Research Is A Big Mess
  42. Most Solutions To Most Forms Of Internet Harassment Would Do More Harm Than Good
  43. On RFK Jr., Debate, And Persuasion
  44. Academia Seems Much Better At Producing Derailing Tactics Than Actual Arguments
  45. Upcoming Potential BARPod/Singal-Minded Meetups: London July 8th, Berlin July 14th
  46. Huh, So It Turns Out That Study That Seemed Too Good To Be True Was. . . Too Good To Be True?
  47. Actually, Logic Is Super Important
  48. Do You Want Alex Joneses? Because That’s How You Get Alex Joneses
  49. "Here 4 the Kids" Smells Like A Very 2023 Racial Ablution Grift
  50. The Police-Abolition Zombie Shambles On
  51. On Alex Goldman Calling For Matt Yglesias To Be Bullied Off Twitter
  52. The Time I Briefly Clung To The Bottom Millimeter Of The Bottom Rung Of ‘The Onion’
  53. Americans Don’t Mind Hearing And Learning About Racism — They Just Don’t Like The Weird And Religiously Tinged Way Educated Liberals Talk About It
  54. A Critique Of Scientific American’s Recent Article, “What Are Puberty Blockers, and How Do They Work?”
  55. Why You Should Try Not To ‘Theyify’ Your Perceived Ideological Enemies
  56. Why Everyone Should Know The Story Of Lucia de Berk
  57. A Random Gripe About Scary-Seeming Aviation Coverage
  58. On Alejandra Caraballo vs. Benjamin Ryan vs. Steven Thrasher
  59. It Annoys Me The Way The Hours Fill With Crap
  60. DJ at Law
  61. Here’s More Evidence That Youth Gender Medicine Researchers Might Be Hiding Unfavorable Data From The Public
  62. Oh Look, An Article About Economic Opportunity That Is Actually Good And Thoughtful
  63. Your Questions, Answered: Therapy, Whether Jon Stewart Ruined Political Discourse, And, As Always, Youth Gender Medicine Stuff
  64. I Am Begging Researchers To Follow Freshman-Level Guidance About Causal Claims
  65. They Will Never, Ever Stop Lying About Everything, But Don't Give Them The Attention They Want
  66. Time For A Twitter Break
  67. “Why Do You Write About This Rather Than That?” Is Almost Always A Lazy And Unserious Derailing Tactic
  68. Gender-Clinic Whistleblower Jamie Reed Has Provided A Detailed Account Of Her Most Controversial Claim, Including The Names Of Those Involved
  69. Journalists Are Exhibiting Far Too Much Credulousness Toward Jamie Reed’s Critics
  70. BONUS: Here's My Interview On "House of Strauss"
  71. On Scott Adams, Free Speech, And The Ongoing Obsession With The Harper’s Letter
  72. Ask Me Anything And A Brief Programming Note
  73. You Should Think Through The Positions You Hold
  74. That Might Have Been The Strangest Thing That Has Ever Happened To Me On Twitter
  75. Possible Listener/Reader Meetup Thursday, February 23rd In Los Angeles
  76. On The Profound Disappointment Of Watching Drew Magary Turn Into This
  77. I’d Like Gretchen Felker-Martin To Stop Tweeting Violent And Sexual Things About Me (Updated)
  78. The BARPod/Singal-Minded Party Is On For Wednesday, February 15 In San Francisco
  79. The New, Highly Touted Study On Hormones For Transgender Teens Doesn’t Really Tell Us Much Of Anything
  80. On The Weirdly Potent Joys Of Being An Expert Beginner
  81. Subscriber Callin Show Tomorrow, 2/2, At 7:10 PM ET
  82. On Scientific Transparency, Researcher Degrees Of Freedom, And That NEJM Study On Youth Gender Medicine (Updated)
  83. I'm Sorry, But Lemme Make It Up To You
  84. Some Criticisms Of Effective Altruism Are Silly And Far Too Hypothetical
  85. On Teachers Letting Kids Transition Gender While Keeping It A Secret From Their Parents
  86. Artificial Intelligence Is More Complicated Than “Like Humans, But Better”
  87. If You're In The Bay Area And Are Interested In Potentially Coming To A Party For Paid Subscribers Next Month, Read On
  88. Vaccine Hysteria Is Getting So Bad, And Fighting It Feels So Futile
  89. It’s Best To Build Dams During The Dry Season

2022 108

  1. In 2023, Let’s Rediscover Wrongness
  2. How To Be A “Heterodox” (Or Whatever) Progressive Without Going Crazy
  3. If You're Losing Badly, You Don't Get To Make Radical Demands About The Terms Of The Debate
  4. A New Study Highlights Just How Tightly Perceptions Of Class And Race Are Linked
  5. Twitter Brain Syndrome Robs You Of Your Ability To Understand That Other People Actually Believe Things
  6. Sexual Panopticon in the Kingdom of Morocco
  7. We’ve Barely Begun To Grapple With How Unscientific Social Science Can Be
  8. Allow Me To Add My Voice To The Chorus of Disgust Over How The Internet Talks About Mental Health
  9. The Decline Of “On The Media” Is Very Sad And Very Illustrative
  10. Shoddy Research Won’t Help People Who Actually Have Long Covid
  11. Gratitude Is A Slippery Fish
  12. Controversial Take: It’s Bad To Put Words In The Mouths Of Murder Victims
  13. More Jews Should Visit The West Bank
  14. Answers To Your November Questions
  15. How I Mostly Stopped Being Scared Of Flying
  16. A Note About This Month And A Request For AMA Questions
  17. A Swedish Investigative Journalist Talks About The Youth Gender Medicine Scandal She Helped Uncover At One Of The World's Top Hospitals
  18. I Fought The PayPal And I Won
  19. Juvephilia Is Silly And Condescending
  20. They Hate Us Because They Ain’t Us, Except They Could Be Us
  21. “If You Disagree With Me, You Want People To Die” Is Not Going To Work On Normal Folks
  22. An Interview With Naama Kates, Who Turned Her Fascination With Incels Into A Darkly Riveting Podcast
  23. On Jon Stewart’s Hiring Process And The Severe Limitations Of Left-Wing Identitarianism
  24. Motte And Grateful
  25. I Wish The People Trying To Build A Better World Would Stop Endlessly Obsessing Over Linguistic Minutiae
  26. Maybe It’s A Bad Idea To Give A Bunch Of Kids Double Mastectomies Without Checking Whether It Helps Them
  27. It Isn’t Journalism’s Job To Hand-Hold People To The Correct Moral Conclusions
  28. It Is Bad To Offer Troubled People Confident Explanations For Their Vague Problems
  29. That New Report On Incels Is A Cherry-picked, Misleading Mess
  30. The University of Washington Is Putting Trans Kids At Risk By Distorting Suicide Research
  31. A Plea For Better Coverage Of Correlations
  32. How Journalists Botched Their Coverage Of #DropKiwiFarms
  33. How A Small, Conservative Campus Paper Did A Better Job Covering The BYU Volleyball Incident Than “The New York Times”
  34. Against Detached Entitlement In Liberal Intellectual Spaces
  35. It Is Bad To Alter Or Retract Published Research That Has No Factual Errors, Even If You Are Doing It “For Social Justice”
  36. We, Or At Least I, So Badly Need To Rediscover The Lost Art Of Ignoring Stuff
  37. If You Believe In Structural Racism, You Believe In Pipeline Problems (Unlocked)
  38. We Have A Major Problem With Potemkin Science
  39. Above All Else, These Men Are Exploitative Grifters
  40. Party Battle Maiden
  41. Aren’t You Giving The Conservative SCOTUS Justices Too Much Credit If You Think They “Have To” Overturn Obergefell And/Or Lawrence?
  42. The New Study On Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria Published In “Pediatrics” Is Genuinely Worthless
  43. Check Here For Racial Oppression
  44. Toward A More Realistic Understanding Of How Power Works In Liberal Institutions
  45. Is There A Right Way To Interview Someone Like Alex Jones?
  46. Here’s A Fairly Subtle Way Researchers Exaggerate The Evidence For Their Ideas
  47. An Attempt To Accurately Explain The Viral Controversy Over The Leon County, Florida School System’s Policy On Trans Kids
  48. Finally, A Bunch Of Geniuses Combined Radical Anti-Abortion Policies With Cartoonishly Bad Social Science
  49. Privileged, Highly Educated People Are Rapidly Colonizing The Racial-Justice Conversation (Unlocked)
  50. On Rashida Tlaib And Chase Strangio’s Ridiculous, Bad-Faith Attack On The New York Times (Updated)
  51. The Reductio Ad Absurdum Of Outgroup Whataboutism
  52. The Legal Equivalent Of A Potted Plant
  53. Who Gets To Be A Criminal Versus A Victim Versus A Human?
  54. Answers To Your June Questions
  55. It’s Bad To Ignore Race, But It’s Also Bad To Assume It Explains Everything
  56. The Heritage Foundation’s Paper On Puberty Blockers And Hormones Is Quite Bad
  57. Ask Me Anything And A Quick Note On Yesterday's Post
  58. I Would Like To Thank Not Only David Roberts, But All The David Robertses Out There
  59. If You're Getting Harassed On Twitter And Want It To Stop, You Should Log Off For A Bit
  60. "Science Vs" Cited Seven Studies To Argue There’s No Controversy About Giving Puberty Blockers And Hormones To Trans Youth. Let’s Read Them.
  61. Is Cops’ Behavior Easy To Explain? Is Anyone’s?
  62. The Buffalo Shooting Didn’t Have Much To Do With Genetics Research
  63. Three Quick Thoughts On Guns
  64. On Schizophrenia, Violence, And The Problem With Shallow Allyship
  65. Elon Musk Is Making A Very Human Mistake
  66. I Am Here Because Of Blind Dumb Luck
  67. Am I Mad At Arcade Fire For Changing, Or At Myself For Getting Older?
  68. It’s Crazy That Major Media Outlets Still Stealth Edit, And It Should Stop
  69. The Phrase "Pregnant Women" Doesn't Exclude Anyone
  70. The CRT Debate Offers Another Demonstration Of How Many Journalists Would Be More Comfortable Doing PR For Advocacy Groups
  71. Twitter Has Almost Nothing To Do With “Marginalized People”
  72. Good News: Everyone Who Disagrees With You Is Even Dumber Than You Thought
  73. No One Can Explain Exactly What PJ Vogt Did Wrong, But The Point Is We Should Now Judge Him Guilty Forever
  74. It’s Frustrating That The Campus Free Speech Conversation Remains So Stunted
  75. A Critique Of Yesterday's New York Times Article About Substack (Updated)
  76. A Lighthearted Dispute: Does More Sex Abuse Occur In Schools Or Catholic Churches?
  77. One Will Be Provided
  78. Researchers Found Puberty Blockers And Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health At Their Clinic. Then They Published A Study Claiming The Opposite. (Updated)
  79. I Don’t Understand Who This Style Of Paranoid, Hectoring Writing Is For
  80. The Invasion Of Ukraine Has Nothing To Do With American Culture War Nonsense
  81. The Market Will Produce Endless Identities, Each More Boring Than The Last
  82. How Not To Cover A Social Science Controversy (Updated)
  83. Ask Me Anything, March 2022
  84. Another Gripe With How Journalists Write About Survey Research
  85. Ask Me Anything And A Couple Programming Notes
  86. Too Many Public Intellectuals Sound Like Drones These Days
  87. On LeBron James And Unskilled Intuition
  88. Russia Has Agency Too!
  89. Luck Is The Only Force That Controls Everything
  90. It’s 2022 And Journalists Writing About QAnon Should Really Know What “Mischievous Responding” Is
  91. The Downsides Of Calling Everyone You Disagree With A Fascist
  92. Eleven Magic Words
  93. On The Sad, Foreboding Tale Of J.D. Vance
  94. Quick Note: You Can Now Download Callin For Android And Then Join Me For Live Conversations, Starting In Two Hours
  95. Why You Should Hope That We’re Living In A Simulation
  96. Outlets Should Stop Disseminating Unconfirmed Speculation About Misinformation
  97. A Couple Announcements And A Request
  98. It Turns Out There's Always Some Emergency Requiring Deplatforming Or Censorship
  99. Not Everything Is About Everything
  100. A Swedish Investigative Journalist Talks About The Youth Gender Medicine Scandal She Helped Uncover At One Of The World's Top Hospitals
  101. Mainstream Media Outlets Keep Botching Their Coverage Of The Critical Race Theory Debate (Updated) (Unlocked)
  102. Mainstream Media Outlets Keep Botching Their Coverage Of The Critical Race Theory Debate (Updated)
  103. Mainstream Media Outlets Keep Botching Their Coverage Of The Critical Race Theory Debate (Updated) (Unlocked)
  104. It's Hard To Overstate How Bad And Angry And Manipulative The Internet Is Right Now
  105. How Detective Crashmore Dragged Me Across The Finish Line Of A Very Bad Year
  106. Is Philosophy Anti-Fat? And Why Won't People Just Delete Their Debunked Tweets Like Decent Citizens?
  107. Disclosures
  108. People Are Mad At Patton Oswalt For The Wrong Reason

2021 133

  1. State Of The Newsletter, 2021
  2. Friday Open Thread, 12/31/2021 (NEW YEAR'S EVE EDITION)
  3. It Isn't Cool Or Interesting To Reflexively Mock Earnestness
  4. There's So Much Justice Going On I Can Hardly Stand It
  5. Discussion Thread For There's So Much Justice Going On I Can Hardly Stand It
  6. In 2022, Let's Hope Fewer Writers Call For Blacklists And Corporate Censorship
  7. Discussion Thread For In 2022, Let's Hope Fewer Writers Call For Blacklists And Corporate Censorship
  8. Free-Speech Skeptics Still Haven't Come Up With Any Decent Alternatives To What We've Got
  9. Discussion Thread For Free-Speech Skeptics Still Haven't Come Up With Any Decent Alternatives To What We've Got
  10. Friday Open Thread, 12/17/2021
  11. Pro-Justice Organizations Should Stop Pretending All Justice-Deficits Are Connected
  12. Discussion Thread For Pro-Justice Organizations Should Stop Pretending All Justice-Deficits Are Connected
  13. Friday Open Thread, 12/10/2021
  14. We Should All Stop Pretending We Pick Our Experts For The Right Reasons
  15. Discussion Thread For We Should All Stop Pretending We Pick Our Experts For The Right Reasons
  16. I'm Looking To Hire A Social-Science-Savvy Researcher (Applications Now Closed)
  17. Liberal Condescension And Statistical Dishonesty Won't Help Crime Victims (Unlocked)
  18. Discussion Thread For Liberal Condescension And Statistical Dishonesty Won't Help Crime Victims
  19. Liberal Condescension And Statistical Dishonesty Won't Help Crime Victims
  20. On Tim Pool And Ideological Capture And Online Cruelty
  21. I'm Launching A New Podcast Tonight And I'd Like You To Come On It
  22. The Compulsion To Broadcast Opinions About Everything Is A Terrible Drug
  23. I Don’t Like Watching The Institutions I Respect Melt Down Into A Single Congealed Unprincipled Gloop
  24. "Let's Make Unreasonable Rhetorical Demands Of The People Who We Want On Our Side"
  25. Friday Open Thread, 11/19/2021
  26. Friday Open Thread, 11/12/2021
  27. If You Believe In Structural Racism, You Believe In Pipeline Problems
  28. Here Are My Contemporaneous Articles About The Kyle Rittenhouse Shootings, Now Unlocked
  29. Friday Open Thread, 11/5/2021
  30. If Democrats Get Destroyed By The "Critical Race Theory" Backlash, It'll Be Their Own Fault
  31. People With Big Platforms Have Some Responsibility To Tamp Down Online Derangement, Or At Least Not Contribute To It So Enthusiastically
  32. How About This November We All Try To Chill Out A Bit
  33. Friday Open Thread, 10/29/2021
  34. Win A Copy Of "The Status Game," Which Isn't Even Coming Out In The States Until Mid-2022
  35. It Probably Makes More Sense To Banish College Admissions Essays Than To Banish SAT Scores
  36. So What's The Strategy Here, Exactly?
  37. Friday Open Thread, 10/15/2021
  38. Social-Justice Blowups Are Mostly About Intraelite Jockeying
  39. We Don't Have Good Data About Social Media Harming Teenagers, But We Shouldn't Write This Off As A "Moral Panic," Either
  40. What's The Difference Between Normal Tears And "White Women's Tears"? Popularity
  41. Friday Open Thread, 10/8/2021
  42. Liberal Organizations Should Not — And Boy Is It Crazy That I Have To Type This — Explicitly Denounce Objectivity And Rigor
  43. Aurora James, The Designer Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Tax The Rich" Dress, Said She Started A 501(c)(3) To Help Black Businesses. Her Organization Is Not A 501(c)(3)
  44. Friday Open Thread, 10/1/2021
  45. What It's Like To Be A Pedophile's Psychologist
  46. An Emeritus Editor At Science-Based Medicine Just Sent This Letter To Steven Novella Criticizing The Site's Recent Turn Away From Rigorous Science
  47. The Phrase "Pregnant Women" Doesn't Exclude Anyone
  48. On The Toll Of Living In An Age Of Endless, Ubiquitous, Exhausting Bullshit
  49. Friday Open Thread, 9/17/2021
  50. How To Participate In Open Threads, Which Are Starting In 2̶3̶ 22 Minutes
  51. The Spat Between Graham Linehan And Laurie Penny Shows Why U.K. Defamation Law Is Very Silly And Counterproductive
  52. Did The Guardian Censor Judith Butler's Vital Gender Insights In A Misguided Attempt To Appease Incorrigible Bigots?
  53. Catastrophe, One Year Later
  54. Some Mainstream Outlets Can't Even Perform Basic Newsgathering Functions Anymore
  55. Win A Copy Of "Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News" By Eric Berkowitz
  56. Knowledge Will Out, But In The Meantime Politically Motivated Attempts To Suppress It Can Cause A Lot Of Harm
  57. The Problem Of Neglected Comparisons In Research On Race And Racism
  58. Let's Watch The Progressive Fake-News Problem Get Worse In Real Time
  59. When Will America Confront Its Culture-Writing Crisis?
  60. I Don't Want The United States To Do Anything Like This Ever Again, But Of Course We Will
  61. Journalism Is In A Weird Place Right Now, Video Games Edition
  62. The Gang Tries To Convince A Colorado Judge That The Presidential Election Was Stolen
  63. Privileged, Highly Educated People Are Rapidly Colonizing The Racial-Justice Conversation
  64. Catching Up On Reader Feedback: Let's Talk A Bit More About Asexuality And Self-ID In Locker Rooms And Other Fun Subjects
  65. Win A Copy Of "T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us"
  66. On Wi Spa And Our Stunted National Conversation About Self-ID
  67. $300 Per Child, Per Month, Matters A Hell Of A Lot More Than The Garbage We Waste So Much Time Arguing About
  68. Let's Look Closely At Some Of Marty Seligman's Claims About The Penn Resilience Program
  69. Great Job Deplatforming Andy Ngo And Abigail Shrier, You Guys
  70. Science-Based Medicine's Coverage Of "Irreversible Damage" Included About 19 Errors, False Claims About Three Sex Researchers, Made-Up Quotes, And Endless Misinformation
  71. Humans Have Deep-Seated, Deranged Impulses Toward Punitive Behavior That Civilization Needs To Keep In Check
  72. How Science-Based Medicine Botched Its Coverage Of The Youth Gender Medicine Debate
  73. Great Job Deplatforming Andy Ngo And Abigail Shrier, You Guys (Unlocked)
  74. Your Personality Is Not A Sexual Orientation
  75. Apropos Of Nothing, A Defense Of Meaty-Tasting Fake Meat
  76. Republican Bills Attempting To Ban Critical Race Theory Are Bad, But So Is Media Fearmongering About Them
  77. The Market For Religious Rituals That Can Scrub White People's Souls Of Racism Is Red-Hot
  78. On Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Invisible Identities, And Weaponized Fragility
  79. Even During A Reckoning, Mind Reading Is Bad
  80. Free-Speech Skeptics Don't Really Have Much Of A Theory Of Anything
  81. Does The Racial Microaggressions Scale Actually Measure Exposure To Microaggressions?
  82. Does The Racial Microaggressions Scale Actually Measure Exposure To Microaggressions? (Unlocked)
  83. The Media’s Lab-Leak Humiliation Is A Useful Reminder Of Why Journalism Needs Its Noodges
  84. Race Essentialists Are Philosophically Confused
  85. What GLAAD and the ACLU Did This Week Is Disturbing, But Unsurprising (Update)
  86. On Kamala Harris's Privileged Upbringing And Why It Matters (Unlocked)
  87. On Kamala Harris’s Privileged Upbringing And Why It Matters
  88. On Kamala Harris’s Privileged Upbringing And Why It Matters (Unlocked)
  89. We Can Acknowledge Some Critical Race Theory Concepts Are Undercooked Without Turning Into Frothing Obsessed Idiots
  90. A Misleading New Yorker Article About Prison Abolition Highlights Mainstream Media's Most Glaring Weakness
  91. ACLU Lawyer: Teehee, My Organization Isn't *Technically* Defaming Anyone!
  92. What The Guardian’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Attempting To Publish An Accurate Article About Substack Can Tell Us About How Twitter-Truth Is Colonizing Reality
  93. A Bit More On Ma’khia Bryant And Police Violence
  94. What Is The Goal Of Our Great Big Gender Conversation?, Part 2
  95. The Daily Beast's Coverage Of The Killing Of Ma’khia Bryant Has Been Wildly Irresponsible
  96. What Is The Goal Of Our Great Big Gender Conversation? (Unlocked)
  97. What Is The Goal Of Our Great Big Gender Conversation?
  98. Social Science Is Hard: Resume Audit Studies Edition
  99. Please Write About Suicide In A Responsible Way
  100. Please Write About Suicide In A Responsible Way
  101. Please Preorder "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills" Today If You Can
  102. A (Sorta) Quick Response To The Errors In Emily Gorcenski's Article, "Jesse Singal Got More Wrong Than He Thinks" (Updated)
  103. Of Course 'Objective' Newswriting Can Transmit An Opinion!
  104. On The Benefits Of Somewhat Foggy Goggles
  105. Of Course Suspected Criminals Should Be Allowed To Raise Money For Their Legal Defenses Online
  106. If You Want To Help Vulnerable People, You Need To Turn Them Into Faceless Abstract Units (Unlocked)
  107. If You Want To Help Vulnerable People, You Need To Turn Them Into Faceless Abstract Units
  108. GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Supposed Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated)
  109. "Moral Clarity" Sounds Like A Great Concept In Theory, But Journalists Embrace It In A Wildly Inconsistent And Opportunistic Manner
  110. People Seem To Have Feelings Rather Than Beliefs These Days (Updated)
  111. Apologies!
  112. I'm Worried That Progressive Universalism Is On Life Support
  113. Check Out How Much Effort It Takes To Respond To A Single Lie-Stuffed Tweetstorm Distorting My Work On Youth Gender Dysphoria
  114. "You Shouldn't Spread Misinformation" Is Now A Controversial Belief Among Many Journalists
  115. Should You Be Allowed To Disagree With Your Progressive Colleagues? (Unlocked)
  116. Should You Be Allowed To Disagree With Your Progressive Colleagues?
  117. Win A Copy Of "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills" By Some Jerk
  118. I'm Worried About The Further Siloization Of Mainstream Writing
  119. The Reply All Implosion Shows What A Toxic, Circular-Firing-Squad Mess Media Is Right Now
  120. The Reply All Implosion Shows What A Toxic, Circular-Firing-Squad Mess Media Is Right Now (Unlocked)
  121. The Implicit Association Test Is A Marvel Of Modern Marketing
  122. What Should We Do About Beliefs That Are Widely Held And Highly Reviled?
  123. The Problem With "Just Ignore The Crazies"
  124. Beware The Sand 'N Slot
  125. More Warning Signs In The Culture Of Journalism
  126. It's The Worst Part Of The Worst Winter, So Let's Argue With Judith Butler
  127. "I'm Scared, So I Trust The Authorities" Is Always A Terrible Heuristic
  128. The Case For A Smidgeon Of Earnestness And Optimism
  129. Do We Really Need A Theory Of "Multiracial Whiteness" To Explain Latino Support For Trump?
  130. Yeah But When Our Side Is Violent It's Justified
  131. A Perfect Ending To The Trump Presidency (Updated)
  132. When Your Epistemic Bubble Pops
  133. When Your Epistemic Bubble Pops (Unlocked)

2020 107

  1. It's Been A Bad Year For Trust In Expertise
  2. Why I'm Keeping This Newsletter Separate From The Podcast I Co-Host
  3. Let's Talk About Milton Friedman And Meritocracy
  4. The Latest Food-Appropriation Controversy Is A Big Tasty Umami-Tinged Plate Of Nothing
  5. Do You Care If I Make Some Old Posts Free For Everyone To Read?
  6. A Response To Foreign Policy's Deeply Misleading Article, "A High Court Decision in Britain Puts Trans People Everywhere at Risk" (Updated)
  7. How Young Reporters' Opposition To Free Speech Is Hindering Journalism
  8. If Your Outlet Can’t Correctly Distinguish A Liberal Feminist From A White Nationalist, You Don’t Have Much Standing To Complain About “Fake News”
  9. Many If Not Most Young Reporters Are Anti-Free-Speech. What Will This Mean For Journalism In The Long Run? (Updated)
  10. My Book, The Quick Fix, Is Now Available For Preorder, And I Hope You'll Consider Buying It
  11. Kyle Rittenhouse And The Problem Of Left-Wing Epistemic Closure
  12. Progressive Feminist Orthodoxy On Sex And Gender Has Been Supplanted With Almost No Discussion Or Debate
  13. This Thanksgiving Is A Reminder That Literally Anything Can Become Dangerously Politicized
  14. Identitarianism Isn't Just Immoral -- It Also Stultifies Its Adherents
  15. The Coddling of the American Dog
  16. On Donald Trump, George W. Bush, And Moral Luck
  17. Substack Exists To Make Money, Not To Save Journalism
  18. Sympathy For The Forecaster, And For Other Complexity-Mongers
  19. The Way America Learns About Presidential Election Results Is So Crazy And Broken
  20. For The Good of Our Democracy, Please Don’t Spread Unverified Election Rumors
  21. I Can't Stop Believing Election Stuff I Should Ignore
  22. Is Trump Doomed By His Profound Inflexibility? (Updated)
  23. Even If You Are, For Some Reason, A Liberal, Single-Issue Anti-Wokeness Voter, You Still Shouldn't Vote For Trump
  24. We Can't Make Decisions About Language Based Solely On What The Worst And Most Ignorant People Might Do
  25. The Police-Abolition Fad Won Progressives Nothing But Backlash And Misunderstanding
  26. The Police-Abolition Fad Won Progressives Nothing But Backlash And Misunderstanding
  27. Win A Copy Of A New Book About A Black Man Living In 'Trumpland'
  28. Why Trump's Lived Experience As A Covid Victim Matters Less Than He Thinks
  29. What Would You Do With $250 Million To Make The Country Better?
  30. Internecine Progressive Conflict Over 'Platforming' Is So Silly And Self-Defeating
  31. How Much Money Is Florida Going To Spend Trying To Prevent Its Own Citizens From Voting?
  32. Social-Media Misinformation Is Going To Make Election Day So Terrifying
  33. The Problem With Selective Empathy
  34. The New York Times, Wildfires, And Rightside Norms
  35. An Important Conversation About Diversity Trainings Is About To Be Derailed Completely
  36. Lobbying For Millionaires, For Social Justice
  37. Win A Copy Of A Book About Moral Grandstanding, Unless You're The Sort Of Evil Person Uninterested In This Vital Subject
  38. On The Feeling Of All Hell Starting To Break Loose
  39. What's Going On At The FDA Is Alarming As Hell
  40. Is Decontextualized Media Coverage Of Donald Trump Helping To Spread The QAnon Conspiracy Theory?
  41. We Need Strong Free-Speech Protections Because People Like Sean Roberts Exist
  42. The Prospect Of Normalcy Is So Seductive Right Now
  43. See You On Friday Or Saturday
  44. On Seattle’s Disastrous Foray Into Policelessness And The Irreplaceable Importance Of Reporting
  45. Win A Copy Of A Fascinating And Important Book About Education That Is Going To Annoy Many People
  46. There Is No Such Thing As "White Culture"
  47. I Think Twitter Could Be Causing And Seriously Exacerbating Mental-Health Problems
  48. Win A Copy Of "Dare To Speak," On The Off Chance Free Speech Seems Like An Important Issue To You At The Moment
  49. Publishers Weekly, Literary Twitter, And The Problem With Online Rampartism
  50. Publishers Weekly, Literary Twitter, And The Problem With Online Rampartism (Unlocked)
  51. Everyone Loses When Journalists Play Rhetorical Calvinball
  52. “Don’t ask about this girl, if she even exists” (Unlocked)
  53. There's An Actual Ideological And Epistemic Crackup Happening On The Left And It Can't Be Bad-Faithed Away
  54. On Bari Weiss And The Growing, Embarrassing Problem Of Epistemic Closure In Progressive Media
  55. What Good-Faith Defense Of Free Speech In The Workplace Looks Like
  56. There's An Actual Ideological And Epistemic Crackup Happening On The Left And It Can't Be Bad-Faithed Away
  57. “Don’t ask about this girl, if she even exists”
  58. Win A Copy Of A Brilliant New Satire Of Woke Wellness Culture
  59. It's Crazy That There Are People On The Left Resolidifying Whiteness
  60. Vital Dividing Lines Based On Class And Education Are Being Erased From The Police-Reform Conversation
  61. You Shouldn't Ruin Teenagers' Lives Over Racist Social-Media Posts
  62. What Happens When Privileged People Dominate The Conversation
  63. When Journalists Pretend To Explain
  64. When Journalists Pretend To Explain
  65. Win A Copy Of A Reality-Based Technothriller
  66. Why Do We Share The Videos We Share?
  67. What We're Worried About When We Worry About Christian Cooper
  68. Let's Talk About That Central Park Video
  69. Just Help Me Understand This About Trump And His Supporters
  70. Conservatives Kinda Have A Point About (Some) Diversity Trainings
  71. Feel-Bad Liberalism And Its Endless Race (Training) To Nowhere
  72. What Should Twitter Do About People Like Candace Owens?
  73. Why The Hard Age Caps On Youth Gender Transition Being Proposed By Conservatives Are A Very Bad Idea
  74. Why I’ve Changed My Mind About The Importance Of Ideological Diversity In Academia
  75. Some Of The Things I Miss
  76. Win A Copy Of "This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search For Home"
  77. This Survey Item About Joe Biden And Black Voters Is Flawed, But Arguably Revealing
  78. A Partial Louis C. Mia K.ulpa
  79. Win A Copy Of A Book About One Of The Most Successful American Organizations Of The 2010s
  80. It Was Self-Defeating For The Democratic Socialists Of America To Announce They Wouldn't Endorse Joe Biden
  81. What Should We Do About The Fact That Louis C.K. Is Still Very Good At What He Does?
  82. Coronavirus Open Thread
  83. Win A Copy Of A New Book About Weird People
  84. We Should Politicize The Coronavirus Crisis
  85. Please Stop Blaming Deaths Of Despair On ‘Whiteness’
  86. Introducing Blocked And Reported, A New Podcast About Internet Craziness
  87. Win A Copy Of A Book About Storytelling At A Time When We Could All Use A Good Story
  88. Singal-Minded Is Going On Spring Break
  89. Is Elizabeth Warren Running The First “Intersectional Campaign”? Should We Care? Part 2
  90. Is Elizabeth Warren Running The First “Intersectional Campaign”? Should We Care? Part 1
  91. It's Not 'Bots' (Mostly) - It's Random Idiots
  92. Win A Copy Of This Book About Friendship And Then Talk About It With Your Friend(s)
  93. I'm Worried People Don't Hate Trump As Much As Democratic Consultants Think They Do
  94. Here Are My Gripes With The Latest New York Times Column On Youth Gender Dysphoria
  95. Deferential Posturing Is Pretty Pathetic To Watch
  96. Navigating Online Controversy In An Age Of Unrelenting, Exhausting, Ubiquitous Bullshit: The American Dirt Story (So Many Exciting Updates!)
  97. Come With Me To The Dark Miserable Catacombs Of The Kotaku Comments Section, Where A White Lady Awaits To Yell At Us
  98. Why The Covington Story Still Grinds My Gears More Than A Year Later
  99. Rep. Barbara Lee Is An American Hero
  100. The Deeply Depressing Unpublishing Of "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" (Unlocked)
  101. The Deeply Depressing Unpublishing Of I "Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"
  102. For The Love Of God Can We Please Stop Talking About "Bernie Bros"???
  103. Win A Copy Of A Fascinating Book About Human Rationality, Artificial Intelligence, And A Lot Of Other Stuff
  104. Two Terrible Campus-Related Anti-Free-Speech Stories
  105. It's Important To Remember That They Will Never, Ever, Ever, Ever, Ever Stop Lying
  106. A Reader Asked For My Help Escaping Toxic Wokeness And Finding Something More Meaningful
  107. From Bowling Alone To Streaming Alone: A Semi-Informed, Arguably Coherent Theory Partially Explaining Why Cultural Criticism Is So Egregiously Bad At The Moment

2019 143

  1. Happy Holidays: Here's Some #Content
  2. Can You Now Be Fired For Openly Discussing Biology In Britain?
  3. Here's A British Employment-Law Expert's Take On The Maya Forstater Controversy
  4. On Sex Differences And Neglected Tradeoffs
  5. Overconfident Male Scientists, Underperforming SAT-Takers, And The Risk Of Attributing To Local Bias That Which Structural Bias Can Explain
  6. How Many People Actually Hate The Peloton Ad? Or: Oh My God Am I Really Devoting A Newsletter To The Peloton Ad?
  7. On Billy Dee Williams And Gender Identity
  8. Kamala Harris Is Out And The Identitarians Have Strong Feelings About Her Departure
  9. Ask Me Anything, Forever
  10. Telling Someone To Ditch Their Family Over Trump Reeks Of Unexamined Privilege
  11. The First Annual Singal-Minded For-Entertainment-Purposes-Only Nonpartisan Guide To Resolving Thanksgiving Family Drama And Aggressively Neutering The Personalities Of Difficult Loved Ones
  12. The Mind-Reading Style In Film Criticism
  13. The Mind-Reading Style In Film Criticism (Unlocked)
  14. Win A Copy Of "American Resistance," A Book About, Well, American Resistance
  15. Three More Gender-Dysphoria Stories, Three More Sources Of Misinformation
  16. Three More Gender-Dysphoria Stories, Three More Sources Of Misinformation
  17. This Potentially Society-Destroying Party Game Blew My Mind And You Should Play It
  18. Some Lingering Thoughts On Cancellation, Whatever That Is
  19. This Book About Knowing Our Cognitive Limits Is Fantastic And I Have Copies To Give Away
  20. I Am Becoming Addicted To Getting Angry At Terrible Anti-Free-Speech Arguments
  21. On White Progressive Solipsism
  22. This Salman Rushdie Story Is So Good I Want To Marry It
  23. Belief, Identity, Bias, And The Osmium Parable (Free Version)
  24. Belief, Identity, Bias, And The Osmium Parable
  25. Nicole Cliffe Is A Poor Choice Of #MeToo Moral Guardian
  26. A Michigan Town Hall Reveals The True, Paranoid Face Of Late-Stage Trumpism
  27. Don’t Be A Gongoozler*: Win A Copy Of This Book About Obsolete Words We Should Bring Back
  28. Is Hate Speech Like A Greenhouse Gas?
  29. Ask Me Anything, Round 6
  30. LGBT People Deserve Accurate Information From LGBT Organizations
  31. A Followup Point About Narcissism In Journalism
  32. This Book Of Haikus About The Elements Is Cool And I Have Three Copies To Give Away To You
  33. Impeaching Trump Shouldn’t Be Complicated, But It Is, Because Our Country Is Pretty Broken
  34. On "Cancel Culture," The New Republic, And Slalom Punditry
  35. It's Immoral To Tell American Trans Women They Face A Murder Epidemic
  36. On Trauma And Sexual Assault And The Fuzziness Of Language
  37. I'll See You Guys Tomorrow
  38. Readers Respond To My Article About Dave Chappelle And Elite Wokery
  39. This Tweet About A Hostel Startup Captures Everything
  40. When We Argue About Dave Chappelle, We Should Recognize That Super-Wokeness Is Mostly An Elite Phenomenon
  41. On The Sadsack Internet Trolls Who Just Want To Watch The World Burn
  42. Trumpism Is A Virus That Has Infected An Already-Weakened Host
  43. On Genes And Intelligence And Luck And Human Decency
  44. Please Stop Sharing This Viral But Misguided Free-Speech Comic
  45. Please Stop Sharing This Viral But Misguided Free-Speech Comic (Unlocked)
  46. Opioids, Weed, And The Revolutionary Temptation (Keith Humphreys)
  47. On Class And Elitism And Democratic Socialists
  48. I'm Calling You Out, Finno-Ugric Languages
  49. What We Talk About When We Talk About Going To The Forest Where They Killed Everyone
  50. Here Are Some Photos Of Art To Tide You Over Until I Write More Stuff
  51. This Jeremy Lin Story Is Very Sad And Human
  52. Ask Me Anything, Round 5
  53. Guilt Trips Won't Address The Climate Crisis
  54. Germany's Paid-Parental-Leave Policy Depresses The Hell Out Of Me
  55. On Jeffrey Epstein And Pedophilia And Journalism And Online Outrage
  56. The Ways In Which We Could Be Traumatizing Ourselves
  57. Basketball, Happiness, And The Risk Of Misreading The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon (Ethan Strauss)
  58. Hollywood Execs Must Love Misogynistic Online Trolls
  59. Announcing Singal-Minded 2019 Summer Hours
  60. On Video Games And Marijuana And Benefitmongering
  61. Ask Me Anything, Round 4
  62. What Should Psychologists Be Forced To Disclose?
  63. It's Insane We're Having A 'Debate' Over Whether It's Acceptable To Assault A Journalist
  64. I Have Been Thinking A Lot About This Turtle Whose Shell Says 'GOD' On It
  65. On Louis CK And Brooklyn Bazaar And Safety Discourse
  66. Progressive Journalism Needs Noodges
  67. Is Power-Posing Getting A Bad Rap? (Spencer Greenberg)
  68. Actually Let’s Not Argue About Whether They’re “Concentration Camps”
  69. Could The Coward's Like Save Twitter? *
  70. Hot Take: Someone Who Sends You A Death Threat On Twitter Almost Definitely Isn't Going To Try To Kill You
  71. Why We Should Be Hopeful About Human Nature (Nicholas Christakis)
  72. What Does It Mean To Act With Compassion Toward Someone Seeking Out Medical Treatment?
  73. Ask Me Anything, Round 3
  74. Why We Are Drawn To Potentially Harmful Active-Shooter School Drills
  75. Is The Process Of Science Reporting Inherently Transphobic?
  76. Elizabeth Warren Is Basically Bernie Sanders, But Nerdier
  77. On White Fragility And "The Politics of Deference"
  78. Here Is The Audio Mini-AMA I Promised You
  79. What It's Like In "The Bad Part Of Town" (Chris Arnade)
  80. I Owe You Guys One
  81. Those Who Speak Out Against Cancel Culture Must Be Cancelled Immediately (Robyn Kanner)
  82. New York City’s School Diversity And Inclusion Efforts Are Fascinatingly Weird
  83. Why Some Americans Changed Their Minds On Gay Marriage
  84. Identity Categories Can’t Fully Explain Abortion Beliefs
  85. I May Have Gotten Slightly Burned This Week
  86. Will The World Be A Better Place If Natasha Tynes’ Novel Isn’t Published?
  87. The Threat Industrial Complex Is Coming To Kill Everyone You Love With Its Fearmongering (Michael A. Cohen)
  88. An Important Update
  89. Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues To HR For Expressing Political Opinions That Make Them Feel Unsafe (Updated)
  90. Conservatives Are Lying About What My Atlantic Article On Gender Dysphoria Says
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