"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
The Cities That Said Yes to DrugsPolicies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”www.theatlantic.com
If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.
Joseph M. AdelmanBecause the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
New episode! On In Bed With the Right, @adriandaub.bsky.social and I talk to the great Sarah Marshall of @yourewrongabout.bsky.social about a quintessential American genre: the road trip. pod.link/1696774612/e...
Episode 146 -- Gender and Road Trips with Sarah MarshallListen to Episode 146 -- Gender and Road Trips with Sarah Marshall from In Bed With The Right wherever you get your podcasts!pod.link
Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
There's an irony in the fact that, to make her argument that Sociology has sacrificed science for activism, Ms. Paul cherry-picks quotes that support her views. 1/
Die Forderung nach mehr «Wissenschaftlichkeit» ist einerseits wohlfeil. Niemand kann dagegen sein. Zugleich ist sie perfide, wo sie «Wissenschaftlichkeit» gegen «Sozialkritik» & «Politisierung» ausspielt und jenen Unwissenschaftlichkeit unterstellt, die das eigene Forschungsparadigma nicht teilen 1/
One of the major problems that many in the scientific community are facing is that we increasingly have to live up to the standards of people with a very limited understanding of science.
Let’s pause here. “Activist” has been a charge leveled at any field that decenters majority interests including gender studies, Asian studies, queer studies, and disability studies, and this isn’t a problem unique to the right.
Kyla Wazana TompkinsLike a conversation that doesn’t use X (formerly twitter) as evidence but cites the actual work of minoritarian and other kinds of criticism as they really exist. Imagine calling Black studies and African American literary studies “an activist sub field.” (Gutkin) 3/5
Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.www.nytimes.comIdeologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past
I suppose there's some way for this to be gayer; I just can't quite think of it. Josh Logan to direct, perhaps?
Men-only gyms seek to protect Christian men from lust – Baptist News Globalthe Christian manosphere believes men need to be in top physical and spiritual shape. So they’re proposing “lust-free” gyms.baptistnews.com
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We DidSince Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...www.propublica.org
the whole "women's sports exist to protect women from men" framing is hilarious, given that a lot of these divisions were initially formed because men were deeply embarrassed any time a woman beat them at a sport olympic shooting was mixed gender right up until a woman won the gold
“Sinon’s story, to me, feels like a warning. Abandoning the trans community has a price. We aren’t a shame that can be buried forever. The pendulum will swing, and we have long memories.”
Alexander CheeI didn’t really have any interest in seeing The Odyssey until I read this. open.substack.com/pub/flintdel...