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Year Zero with Wesley Yang
by Wesley Yang
An ongoing inquiry into the ideological fever that overtook the governing and chattering classes of America during the Trump years wesleyyang.substack.com
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"Amongst people where I've been in the same room with them, or in the same room with their parents the only really bad outcomes have been children who were being affirmed."
We do not know if, when, or how the lemming-like rush to propagate the experimental and non-evidence based practice of pediatric sex trait modification will be brought to heel. But if the United States eventually follows the lead of the Social Democratic nations of northern Europe toward reason…
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"I was able to get a second letter. And that was all the surgeon required in order to agree to remove my testicles and perform a penectomy and a vaginoplasty on an 18 year old."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wesleyyang.substack.com Today's bonus podcast for paid subscribers is the first 40 minutes of my marathon conversation with Corinna Cohn. Toward the end of that podcast, I referred to the beginning of our conversation as "tense." I…
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"How could it possibly be state sanctioned that we have men who have raped babies licking their lips, looking at tiny children in a women's prison in the mother/baby unit?"
Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is the audio version of a video interview published earlier. Here is the second in a series of three interviews with Anna Slatz, the founder of Reduxx Magazine....
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"Here's the bottom line...It is going to be very difficult for them to find loving, long term partners, because you have fucked up their bodies in ways that are going to complicate relationships."
Corinna Cohn is a software developer living in Indiana who was among the very first teenagers to go on cross-sex hormones in adolescence, at the age of 15 in 1993. He was inducted into a cross-sex identity on the very first transsexual-interest Internet Relay Chat groups in the early 1990’s and...
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"It's possible to criticize and raise questions about pediatric gender medicine today in a way that was not possible even six months ago. We have definitely turned a corner."
Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Leor Sapir is a scholar at the Manhattan Institute who has become a leading figure in the ongoing effort to bring accountability to a medical field that has run off...
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"I first saw on Twitter, some people saying, 'Oh, they're giving the same drugs to kids as they as they give to chemically castrate sex offenders.' I thought, “That's clearly wrong. And then..."
Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Michael Biggs is Associate Professor of Sociology at Oxford University and the author of a series of important studies of pediatric gender medicine in the UK. The...
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"I don't want to go down in history as the guy who killed affirmative action. I actually said that to him. "
Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Back in 2018, Adam Mortara repeatedly told Massachusetts District Court Judge Allison Burroughs that the case he was arguing sought to prove that Harvard had...
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"We're going to put together our own guide, our own authoritative set of guidance for how to conceptualize and treat gender dysphoria, because someone has to step up and challenge these people."
Joseph Burgo is a psychoanalyst and author and a co-director of Genspect, an organization representing thousands of parents of children caught up in the ongoing transgender social contagion. The organizatioin now seeks to supplant the World Professional Association of Transgender Health as an...
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"We're giving these girls mastectomies. You have to be curious about what's going on."
Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A small group of writers attended two conferences on gender held concurrently in Killarney, Ireland in April. One was the annual meeting of the European affiliate of...
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Shep Melnick on Creedal Passion Politics (Abridged)
This is an abridged, 15-minute excerpt of my conversation with Boston College professor of political science Shep Melnick posted for paid subscribers only. Become a paid subscriber to hear the rest of this episode, read the transcript, and maintain access to a growing archive of independent study...
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The Protected Category That Could Not Be Defined
"…it’s just as easily going to encroach on any other categorization that we've ever recognized in law as needed to help particular groups with defined characteristics - people with disabilities, people of certain ages - need different things in law. Race, color and national origin - every single...
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The Empire Struck Back
“So the basic claim is that, okay, there may have been this need, contingently, one time, for the court to act; but if you create a super weapon, it's something that whoever gets control of it, will find a tempting, non-democratic way of getting their policy done. That's what the Lochner era had...
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Shep Melnick on The Sixties’ False Dawn (Abridged)
This is an abridged, 20-minute excerpt of the interview with Boston College professor of political science Shep Melnick posted for paid subscribers only. Become a paid subscriber to hear the rest of this episode and maintain access to a growing archive of independent study sessions. This is the...
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Conversations with Friends
Early adopters of the Yang Extended Universe as it moves into the audio realm are familiar with my scripted podcast, that you can listen to here on Substack, but I also have another weekly show, Conversations in Year Zero, conducted on the app Callin, in which I get to interact with my audience....
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The Road to Year Zero #4 - A Dream of Spring
In today’s episode of The Road to Year Zero we pick up right where we left off in our conversation with Jonathan Chait. At the time of our interview, Chait was working on a piece exploring the current state of the culture, since, as he put it “a wave of illiberal norms around the discussion of…
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Current Events in Year Zero
"I think it's different because it's fundamentally a sort of liberal Civil War, in which both parties, that is to say, pro-choice activists and pro-life activists, really think of themselves in an actually remarkably similar way. Both sides think of themselves as human rights Crusaders, who are...
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Shep Melnick on Adversarial Legalism (Abridged)
This is an abridged, 30-minute excerpt of the interview with Boston College professor of political science Shep Melnick posted yesterday for paid subscribers only. It is the second episode of the subscriber-only Syllabus series. Become a paid subscriber to hear the rest of this episode and…
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The Road to Year Zero #3 - Chait v. The Internet
Today’s episode of the Road to Year Zero Podcast looks back at the publication of Jonathan Chait’s February 2015 New York Magazine cover story, NOT A VERY P.C. THING TO SAY, which both registered the recrudescence of political correctness and summoned up a response illustrative of a new balance…
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Shep Melnick on the Civil Rights State (Abridged)
This is an abridged, 20-minute excerpt of the original, one hour and twenty-five minute interview with Boston College professor of political science Shep Melnick posted yesterday for paid subscribers only. It is the first episode of the subscriber-only Syllabus series. Become a paid subscriber to...
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The Road to Year Zero #2 - We Out Here
Still evoking the mood and atmospherics of the early days of the ideological succession. A reflection on the following piece, and a dramatic recitation, by me of my own work: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/03/we-out-here/ Listen on Substack or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts: Apple |...
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The Road to Year Zero #1 - Cold Open
As promised, I am expanding my own nano-Vertically Integrated Messaging Apparatus into another medium: a podcast, or rather a series of podcasts organized under three different rubrics. * The Road to Year Zero: A micro-documentary series revisiting the great and petty episodes on the path to...
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