Carole Hooven
@hoovlet
Hormones, evolution, sex diffs, academic freedom. Wrote T: The Story of Testosterone. Senior Fellow @AEI. Slowly moving on from 20 years teaching at Harvard.
One cost of the Great Awokening was that people spent too much time managing their own reputations within institutions and professional circles, and not enough time thinking about how they were coming off outside it:
"Among those who can overcome the trauma of having the issue raised, one favored gambit is to act as if it is an unreasonable expectation for academics to know whether or not there are male women." Damning, highly entertaining. Well worth your time. philosophersmag.com/philosophical-…
The irony of this is many women taking T to transition report greater feelings of aggression and more limited emotional range. MRI and neuroimaging studies show T shifts emotional processing in the brain, leading to patterns more consistent with those seen in cisgender men.
A primary school in London has launched a project in which it highlights well known men to boys to give them role models to aspire to be like so they can grow up to be successful men. The first 'man' selected was Elliot Page telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…
Notable: "We believe that this reply is the first peer-reviewed academic paper to state explicitly that Caster Semenya, and similarly placed athletes, are male, not female ..."
Here is my latest paper, published today in the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport and co-authored with Dr Emma Hilton @fondofbeetles from Manchester University. I would like to thank @OpenUniversity for their ongoing support of my research tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
"We need to cultivate a love of truth for its own sake and the courage to speak our minds and to follow the truth wherever it may lead us — even when it leads us into difficult waters where our disagreements are deep and unsettling." 🙏🏽 @jennfrey
In case you missed Jennifer Frey’s New York Times article that is setting the internet on fire — here’s a summary of her powerful critique of how universities are failing students who want a true liberal arts education. A thread 🧵
Wow, some scholars are hiding messages in their manuscripts to LLMs who may be used to review the paper. If there is a way to cheat, people will find it.
What might stop men from engaging in therapy for pornography addiction? "Women make up around 80% of clinical psychologists (BPS, 2024) and 74% of UKCP registered psychotherapists (BACP, 2017). This gender imbalance may introduce additional barriers for male clients,…
Sam Rockwell is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the Emmys for THE WHITE LOTUS.
Carrie Coon is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the Emmys for THE WHITE LOTUS.
"I'd much rather be a great father than a great golfer... professional athletes work really hard for something that is so fleeting... at the end of the day it is just not what satisfies me."
Unreal
Parker Posey is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the Emmys for THE WHITE LOTUS. #EMMY
My terrific interview with @hoovlet is also on YouTube, just FYI. youtube.com/watch?v=sab1Vo…
Stay away from Sex at Harvard Here's my talk in which I describe what led to my departure from the teaching job I loved. From at the USC Censorship in the Sciences Conference earlier this year. (Some people are asking. Also see my article in @TheFP.) youtu.be/4I9gP--0tXM?si…
Release the Epstein files. All of them. For those of us with nothing to fear, the truth can’t come soon enough. I hate to make this about me — but the media already has.
Yesterday’s Meghan Daum interview with Carole Hooven is really worth a watch — they discuss the “hatred” that seems to be so commonly directed toward men in our culture. It literally brings Carole to tears. Great discussion. youtu.be/sab1VocacM8?si…
I always feel relaxed and comfortable 😬 around @meghan_daum. Yes there was more to it than nipples and the male gaze. But you should watch the whole thing anyway.
This week's podcast interview with Carole Hooven @hoovlet is SO GOOD. We talk testosterone, the feminization of society, the demonization of men, and debate the idea that women "hate" men. (I say they're faking.)