Ben Appel’s Newsletter

I write about almost everything, from personal essay and memoir to fiction to travel essays to politics to book reviews to thoughts on literature to novels and stories and much more.

More light, less heat.

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

How did our institutions fall prey to irrational notions like gender identity? I trace the history of the people and ideas that are driving our society nuts.

Holding the line on free speech, science, and reality.

Ideas about gender, gender identity, and its effects on culture, policy, and health.

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.

A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better -- plus a good deal of other, more random stuff.

Misogyny: what is it and why won't it die?

I write about a wide range of cultural, social, and political topics.

A trans widow contemplates radical honesty, the crisis of modernity, and finding the sacred in the mundane.

Independent health and science journalist Benjamin Ryan's Substack focuses on pediatric gender medicine in particular.

Mostly devoted to clawing feminism back from the idiots that ruined it. Some other things too.

A newsletter about the gender culture wars, & the history, science, psychology & politics of gender nonconformity—misunderstood by the Right and Left. Where do our ideas of normal for boys and girls come from? Speaking the unspeakable. Pro-complexity.

Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.

Your go-to resource for all things related to the radical feminist movement to protect the sex-based rights of women and girls and to stop the abolition of sex in the United States (and occasionally in other parts of the world).

Lesbian, gay, bisexual adults concerned with pediatric gender medicine and the censorship of dissent. We won't be silenced.

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," - George Orwell.

Sometimes race, sometimes language, sometimes something else. Every week.

Critical reporting on the evidence base behind biological explanations for transgender identity, gender-transition treatments, and psychiatric models—seeking a better path forward for mental health.

An ongoing inquiry into the ideological fever that overtook the governing and chattering classes of America during the Trump years