John Maier

research fellow at Mercatuspp | columnist @unherd |Philosophy DPhil @BalliolOxford

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Who are women's sports for? Daniel Kodsi (@dfkodsi) and I defend the unsurprising (but apparently controversial) answer that they are for women(!).

Open access link below to our new article in the @JConIdeas

"Like scientific theorists and other decision­ makers, lawmakers do better to rely on natural, rather than gerrymandered, categories whenever possible. Statutes which exclude all males from female sports are justified in part because they respect this general constraint on good practical and theoretical reasoning. Potential alternative regimes which carve ad hoc exceptions into established protections for female sports are unjustified in part because they flagrantly violate it."

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On this year’s Tory conference for @unherd

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https://t.co/v48OIl9Xfb

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On this year’s Tory conference for @unherd

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UnHerd's @johnmaier_ is unconvinced that the Tories' conference bounce amounts to anything more than vibes...

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In brazenly self-deceived mode, one CCHQ staffer speculates loudly that the visible improvement in the attractiveness of the young men in attendance, as compared with last year, is a surefire indicator of a coming recovery in the party’s electoral fortunes.

I strain my eyes to see whether I can follow his reasoning. From what I see, I infer that the standalone moustache has finally made a fashion comeback (a long-awaited recovery, perhaps, in the face of the near-fatal countervailing influences on male grooming provided by AIDS and Adolf Hitler); but beyond that, little improvement is obvious.

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“The Greens have always been a single-issue party — but recently, that single issue has morphed in surprising ways. Once the political home of well-intentioned (albeit eccentric) devotees of environmentalism, the party now serves as the political vehicle for a far more confused agenda: a mixture of hard-left economics, wayward forms of gender ideology and a pronounced hostility to Israel”

https://t.co/Py4Cnx5EuG

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"Like the protagonist of Michel Houellebecq’s 2001 novel Platform, I have recently been the recipient — or should I say “survivor” — of a Thai massage..."

On the 25th anniversary of Michel Houellebecq's Platform in the @thetimes

https://t.co/pp8lzzUY5W

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Roy Cohn — Trump’s mentor was a ‘killer fruit’ and sociopath

https://t.co/aoQHp4V0wP

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“That Amnesty would brand a charitable service for sexually abused women a “threat” to anyone’s rights only underscores the perverse logic of those in the grip of gender ideology.”

Amnesty has been captured by a pernicious form of progressivism

https://t.co/ZXZJvHpAwF

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Public bodies must enforce Supreme Court ruling on biological sex

https://t.co/22Xh8HVSgK

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Jason Arday affair leaves questions for Cambridge to answer

https://t.co/M9NZCIBIXG

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It is time for Labour to grow up. Profit is not a vice

https://t.co/8UgDMHDlCD

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Britain must embrace AI disruption to harness gains of innovation

https://t.co/BS35MvrDLW

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@StefanFSchubert @thetimes Absolutely

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“Why are America’s political leaders so astonishingly geriatric?”

I read Samuel Moyn’s book, Gerontocracy, which manages to shed almost no new light on the answer, for @thetimes

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“Why are America’s political leaders so astonishingly geriatric?”

I read Samuel Moyn’s book, Gerontocracy, which manages to shed almost no new light on the answer, for @thetimes

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Why are America’s political leaders so geriatric?

https://t.co/uTbVm6b42L

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“Meanwhile, not far from where I live in Washington, a huge wrestling stage was recently erected in front of the White House to celebrate, in characteristically dignified style, the 80th birthday of its occupant. Donald Trump, after Biden, is only the second president to enter his ninth decade while in office. To translate the abridged 2024 Trump-Biden showdown on to the British political timeline, it would be as if Neil Kinnock (84) and John Major (83) were still slugging it out over the dispatch box.”

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From Justice Thomas's concurrence in the SCOTUS transgender athlete case. (link below)