Articles for category: Quick Thought

March 9, 2026

Magritte's "The Therapist" (1937) — a seated figure whose torso is an argument about the analyst as container, and the question of what escapes when the container opens to new things, like ketamine, the public, etc.

Psychoanalytic Politics, Ketamine, and the “Medical Model”

At a recent lecture on bridging psychoanalytic and psychedelic therapies, the promised ethical considerations never quite arrived. What emerged instead was something more revealing: an institution confronting its own institutionalization.

February 23, 2026

twhoshaw

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Yet another chapter in Andrew Sullivan's anti-trans story.

Why I Unsubscribed from Andrew Sullivan’s The Weekly Dish

Andrew Sullivan gets a few things right: public support for trans freedom has narrowed, and winning elections matters. But when you strip away his reasonable concessions, what remains is not political argument — it is projection. This post applies John Rawls's concept of public reason to Sullivan's anti-trans screeds and finds them wanting. Sullivan's fantasy of gay kids being forced to transition by evil doctors is not a basis for public policy. It is a private obsession dressed up as political commentary. And the real world keeps telling him so.

February 19, 2026

twhoshaw

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Hoshaw's version of Bingen's Creation of the Soul for a post on placental relations, theology, viability, and abortion.

Placental Relations: Theology, Viability, and Roe v. Wade

What if Roe v. Wade was wiser than either its defenders or its critics realized? In this post, I take an unconventional path through medieval theology, Peter Sloterdijk's philosophy of the placenta, and Hildegard of Bingen's vision of ensoulment to argue that the Roe Court's viability standard wasn't arbitrary legal improvisation — it was judicial wisdom rooted in a remarkably consistent convergence of theological tradition and modern medicine. Along the way, I make the case that consistent originalism actually leads to a more radical pro-choice conclusion than Roe ever did, and that Dobbs, for all its claims of constitutional fidelity, is just as extra-legal as the decision it overturned — only less honest about it.

January 28, 2026

twhoshaw

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