September 2, 2026
How (Not) To Talk About Dolly Parton
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
September 28, 2026
Deviant TeachingQueer Lesbian & Gay StudiesQueer PoliticsQueer Theory
On Real Time with Bill Maher, James Kirchick said gayness is only a sexual orientation. David Halperin’s *How to Be Gay* shows why that’s a fantasy, not history.
David M. Halperin, gay definition, gay desire, gay history, gay identity, gay subculture, Queer Theory
September 25, 2026
Last Ditch Effort to Defend One of the Last Lesbian Bars from Queer Paranoia
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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
Musicals & More: A Gay Thoughts Playlist
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May 14, 2026
Change or Die. 2.2 of The N*ew* Thoughts Podcast
Three horror films. One question: What happens when the world hands you a choice—change or die? Dr. Hoshaw examines Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, I Saw the TV Glow, and Slanted through the psychoanalytic lens of Adam Phillips’s On Wanting to Change and R.D. Laing’s The Divided Self. Along the way: a personal story about earning a pilot’s license, Susan Stryker’s landmark Frankenstein essay, and a sharp meditation on privilege, conversion, and the body’s refusal to cooperate. *SPOILER WARNING:* This episode contains major spoilers for Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, I Saw the TV Glow, and Slanted. Watch the films first, then come back.
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.
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