Am I A Recovering Art Monster? Are You?

New essay up on Substack about the art of writing brutally. Or is it the brutality of writing artfully?
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Wish I were in town to see these two tomorrow. And not just because they're too attractive to be writers. (Go see them!)

Occasionally NPR still brings it.
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Had so much fun at #HxA2024 and I'm not even an academic! (Maybe I had more fun because of that.) Heard some incredible speakers, including a Harvard undergrad who pretty much left all the adults in the dust. Hopeful for the future and excited for next year.

Morning romp. June gloom is upon us.

I'm happily childless and yet broadly agree with Peterson here. That said, self-congratulatory natalists and self-righteous 'childfree' types have at least one thing in common: they protest a bit too much.

Become a paying subscriber to hear the whole thing, which includes a discussion of whether childless wretches such as ourselves have any business talking or even caring about any of this. meghandaum.substack.com/p/william-dere…

Listener favorite William Deresiewicz returns to The Unspeakable Podcast to talk about the 10th anniversary of his influential book EXCELLENT SHEEP and what's wrong with education and intellectual life these days. If you thought things were bad in 2014, well . . podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Had a blast leading this Heterodox Academy #HxA2024 panel on 'women in heterodoxy.' Why are so many women sitting out the free speech debates? Is it our agreeableness? We disagreed!

Our first-ever The Unspeakeasy COED retreat is currently in session in Chicago. We got a surprise visit from Katherine Dee, who contributed brilliantly to our conversation about trads, rads, redpills, crying TikTok girl and 'what the hell is going on here?' Tomorrow: DEI,

This week on A Special Place in Hell: Sarah Haider 👾 and I discuss the Trump verdict, the UK's block on puberty blockers, the ballad of the sad white male academic, and spanking. youtube.com/watch?v=riEjgy…

You heard it here first, folks. The male equivalent of a short haircut on a woman is man boobs!

My partners found me attractive despite my personality.

Today, 6k YouTube subscribers. Tomorrow, capital murder convictions for OWNING the algorithm. aspecialplace.substack.com

Short hair discourse: I'm here for it.

Happy birthday, hero!

What's wrong with short hair?