Valerie Stivers

2 days ago | unherd.com | Valerie Stivers

CultureHannah ArendtMutinyTrans activismUSUS Supreme Court This past Saturday in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Chase Strangio, the staff attorney who is co-director of the ACLU’s LGBT and HIV Project, faced a group of supporters to debrief the historic loss of the United States v. Skrmetti at the Supreme Court. The justices had ruled that restricting minors’ access to puberty blockers in Tennessee did not qualify as discrimination.

2 weeks ago | unherd.com | Valerie Stivers

CultureLiberalsmainstream mediatrans childrenThe leftTrans activismelitesTrumpUS In person, Jesse Singal is a surprise. The journalist, podcaster, and UnHerd contributor is in the spotlight — again — for his early critical stance on youth gender medicine, as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on Tennessee’s ban against transgender care for minors, and the New York Times drops “The Protocol,” a buzzy six-part podcast investigation on the evolution of the issue.

1 month ago | unherd.com | Valerie Stivers

ChinaclimateClothesdeglobalisationfast fashionPoliticsSustainabilitytarriffsUS Last week, Walmart announced a plan to raise prices, setting off another round of criticism of President Trump’s tariff policy. In this case, the calculus seems particularly damning; Walmart serves middle- and lower-income Americans, who will be particularly affected by price hikes. And items imported from Mexico and Canada, such as avocados and raspberries, can be expected to cost more.

1 month ago | unherd.com | Valerie Stivers

AdderallADHDBig PharmaCultureGen ZparentingThe New York TimesUS Last month, The New York Times Magazine published a comprehensive story by journalist Paul Tough, on the current state of research into Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. The piece reached stark and ground-breaking conclusions.

1 month ago | unherd.com | Valerie Stivers

diversehannah zeavinmomsmoral panicparentingSexismSocietyTechnology One of the speakers in The Symposium, Plato’s great dialogue on the characteristics of love, makes the point that what is “done well and rightly” is beautiful, and what is not rightly done is ugly. The proposition has more predictive power than we’d like to admit. Elite urban parenting, for example? Hideous. This makes no sense, given the resources involved, but so it is.