Highlights from her autobiography — Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States, died today at age 96. In her 1984 autobiography, First Lady from Plains, she recalled: “With Jimmy’s [1977] inaugural, we hoped to set a tone for an open, inclusive administration, one that would focus on all kinds of people…We planned a…

Clay Cane‘s book on ‘Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump’ — Clay Cane has hosted a SiriusXM radio show since the first year of Trump’s presidency. His book The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump is available for preorder. It’s a thorough examination of a complex topic, connecting Black American…

A collage of his words — An erasure/collage of “External Hindrances,” Part Two, Chapter Three of Man’s Unconquerable Mind (Columbia University Press, 1954) by Gilbert Highet (1906–1978). ‘Man’s Unconquerable Mind’: External Hindrances At first, I’m intrigued. Cave man painting a running stag? Standards of good and evil? Transmuted into living flames? I’m in. Then it gets a little weird. The author is just very intense and specific about whatever he’s talking…

Yes, Dawkins did fall down the transphobia rabbit hole. QED. — Richard Dawkins, a biologist famous for his book The Selfish Gene (1976) and for his later collaboration with the New Atheists, made a transphobic tweet in April 2021. Consequently, the American Humanist Association revoked an award it had given him 25 years earlier. One might imagine there were other reasons…

We are not ever going to hear a dialectic — I’ve been writing about Richard Dawkins’s podcast The Poetry of Reality, examining the development of its transphobic purpose. He Dismisses Trans-Inclusivity as a ‘Religion’ The next part I want to discuss is the 8-minute episode released October 10, 2023: “Does Woke Count As A Religion?” …

Indulge transphobia long enough, and it becomes part of who you are — On June 26, 2023, Richard Dawkins posted the inaugural episode of The Poetry of Reality. Then he released an episode with Helen Joyce on July 29 (entirely devoted to being transphobic) and an episode with Peter Boghossian on August 5 (mostly devoted to being transphobic). Can he recover from it…

They’re both involved with the University of Austin — On August 5, 2023, Peter Boghossian appeared for an hour-long conversation with his host, Richard Dawkins. The episode is called “‘Is Religion Inevitable?’ — Richard Dawkins Reveals All” and it’s on the Poetry of Reality show that you can find on YouTube. Although it’s three months old, one reason this…

I like to stay informed about what they’re saying about trans people — In April 2021, prominent biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins made an offensive tweet for which he faced consequences. A lot of people recognized it as anti-transgender, while many others tried to defend Dawkins and paint his comment in some other light. …

Douglas Murray defends prejudice in ‘The Madness of Crowds’ — In 2019, Douglas Murray released The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity. It’s endorsed by Joe Rogan as well as Jordan Peterson, Tom Stoppard, Richard Dawkins, Lionel Shriver, Sam Harris, and Bernard-Henri Lévy. It was published by Bloomsbury Continuum. It’s the most rambling, imprecise diatribe I’ve read in a…