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It's about a cultural revolution and the abolition of biological sex.

Andrew Sullivan on how the LGBT movement abandoned the ‘liberal spirit’.

Andrew Sullivan talks to Brendan O’Neill about the authoritarian turn in progressive politics.

Book about trans issues which was big for them, the new yorker ran a piece saying the left has to start taking genetics seriously, thats new for them. not only are they sounding shrill and angry, theyre losing a lot of respect among many people who want to be in these places, diversity of opinion. howie: let me jump in. you said in one interview, weve all lost our nerve. does that include andrew sullivan? >> absolutely not. i was gotten rid of because i wouldnt succumb to the woke revolution but...

His new book, "out on a limb: selected writing 1889 to 2021" is out tomorrow. readers can expect a tour of our times, a tour of andrews mind, his life, his health, his unique view of what ails us all. he also writes a column "the weekly dish" available on substack, and hosts his own podcast called the dishcast. it is always a great pleasure to have you on the broadcast. in reading this, im reminded you were writing about the republican taliban back in 09. you were writing about mcconnell and the...

Dixie Lewis and her boyfriend Ross Schultz, 20, were killed in a crash near Truckee, California, on May 25, when their car struck a Freightliner semi head on.

Are Face-Masks The New Condoms? Some thoughts on plagues, rationality and recovery. Plagues are not terribly well known for spawning outbreaks of rationality. And their reputation in 2021, I think we can safely say, is intact. We’d love to believe that in the modern era we have overcome superstition or false panic or misplaced fear, and now “trust science”. But look around you. We’ve gotten a lot of things wrong over the last year or so, as well as several big things right, and no doubt...

The Weekly Dish There is a compromise available. Heres one version. If we were going to construct a test-case for how dysfunctional our politics have become, it would be hard to beat the transgender issue. It profoundly affects a relatively minuscule number of people in the grand scheme of things, and yet galvanizes countless more for culture war purposes. It has become a litmus test for social justice campaigners, who regard anyone proposing even the slightest qualifications on the question as...

Senior policy analyst at the Independent Womens Forum Patrice Onwuka weighs in on Fox & Friends First. Former New York Magazine columnist Andrew Sullivan blasted The New York Times for its characterization of the violence that took place last year following the death of George Floyd in an attempt to separate the riots that took place on Capitol Hill earlier this month.  In a piece published on Sunday, Times national political reporter Astead Herndon accused Republicans of "warping reality...

Best of 2020: Immigration Reads You May Have Missed by  Andrew Good As the curtain closes on 2020, the NumbersUSA staff who work as part of the Media Standards Project have each pulled together a list of 10 noteworthy media items* from the year that advanced a healthy, civil, productive conversation on immigration-related issues. These pundits and reporters provided their consumers with high-quality commentary and information, allowing the space to explore nuances, trade-offs, and policy pres...