Responses & Discussion

Where Ran’s arguments have been taken up, argued with, or commissioned by others.

Arguments taken up

Bungacast devoted an episode to “Abolish Queer Theory!”

Episode #543, “Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity” (7 April 2026) — a full-length discussion of the chapter’s argument.

The Tel Aviv Review: “When Everybody Is LGBT, Nobody Is”

TLV1, 3 February 2026 — an interview built around the same argument.

Commissions and invitations

American Affairs

Has published Ran twice, including a ten-thousand-word essay with thirty-two endnotes, with a further essay forthcoming.

Verdurin

Commissioned “Abolish Queer Theory!” for Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual, and invited Ran to speak at the Return to Sodom symposium (London, February 2025) and at the book’s Berlin launch (December 2025).

Café Américain

Published “Hannah Arendt and the Nation State” in August 2026.

Collective statements

The Newsweek open letter

Coordinated by Ran in October 2023 and co-signed by more than seventy-five Israeli progressives and peace activists, among them David Grossman and Yuval Noah Harari.

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