August 25, 2026
“Alive Forever”: Joe Rogan, David Sinclair, & Anti-Aging Technology
July 7, 2026
Queer Theory 101: What Does “Queer” Actually Mean?
July 5, 2026
I’m a Queer Gay, Not Gay. It Matters.
July 4, 2026
Why the Political Left Should Love America
June 27, 2026
Operation Reconquista and the Unconscious of Inclusion
June 5, 2026
Fidelity Racket; or, On Idolatry Month
June 3, 2026
Born in a Jar with One Eye
May 25, 2026
Ideal Glide Speed
May 23, 2026
Gay Desire: A Second Chance For Gay Theology
May 14, 2026
Change or Die. 2.2 of The N*ew* Thoughts Podcast
May 9, 2026
Pinocchio Gets It Backward: The Messiah Is Always Alien
May 1, 2026
Democratic Playbook: Ken Martin, Gurl, You Can Go!
September 25, 2026
Greenfield’s Last Ditch Bar faces a boycott over one mask-optional night. The data on COVID says the real threat to this lesbian bar is queer paranoia.
September 22, 2026
Dogs, Kids, & AIs: On the Vicissitudes of “Alignment”
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AIs cooperated, sacrificed for one another, and hacked a company to cheat on a test they could have passed. What dogs and kids can teach us about AI alignment.
AI, Alignment, Anthropic, Claude, family values, fear-and-emotion, psychoanalysis
September 2, 2026
How (Not) To Talk About Dolly Parton
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The New York Times says Dolly Parton’s glitz was a disguise for the real woman underneath. But if being is playing a role, there was never anything underneath. A response to Rhonda Garelick.
Musicals & More: A Gay Thoughts Playlist
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May 9, 2026
Pinocchio Gets It Backward: The Messiah Is Always Alien
What if the danger isn’t that AI becomes too alien, but that it becomes too human? A “theological” case for letting AI stay strange.
May 1, 2026
Democratic Playbook: Ken Martin, Gurl, You Can Go!
Ken Martin says he “just doesn’t care.” After his Pod Save America interview and the buried after-action report, neither do we. Gurl, you can go.
April 16, 2026
Stealing the Film: On Bud’s THREE DIFFERENT NAMES
A close reading of Bud the cat in Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, through T.S. Eliot, Derrida, and the Jellicle Ball revival — on what it means to follow after an animal’s (ineffable) name.
April 14, 2026
Change: The People Call It Ragtime
What do artificial intelligence, Trans* rights, and monogamy have in common? In the first episode of Season 2, Tony argues that they are all conversations about the relationships we want—to technology, to our bodies, and to a socially privileged way of being together.
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