The Unspeakeasy with Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum, Tanya Tsikanovsky, Dr. Lucy McBride, Benjamin Ryan, Tara Henley, Jenny Holland, David K. Israel, Paul Garcia-Ryan, LCSW, Kimberley Tait, Valerie Stivers, Sarah Hepola, Alex Gutentag, Jessica RaimiHome of The Unspeakeasy Podcast (formerly known as The Unspeakable), occasional livestreams, and new writing and updates from Meghan Daum.
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Author of seven books, host of The Unspeakeasy podcast (formerly The Unspeakable), and founder of The Unspeakeasy platform and community-home of the "free speech vacation." https://theunspeakeasy.com/
Highly lesbian, Zionist, Republican.
Primary care doctor & bestselling author dispensing fact-based, practical advice that fits your life. Health isn't about having all the answers; it's about asking better questions—of yourself, and of the people responsible for your care.
I am an independent investigative journalist, focusing in particular on the cross-section between pediatric gender medicine and law.
Tara Henley is a current affairs journalist and podcaster based in Toronto. Her latest book is The Trust Spiral: Why the Media Needs Objectivity.
Personal politics for the politically homeless. Writing at Saving Culture (from Itself) at jennyeholland.sub stack.com; Spiked! and Feminist Current.
I’m a novelist, writer, editor, brand builder, and founder of Dogstar Press—the new independent literary press devoted to beauty, sincerity, and 100% human fiction. Part of a new Romantic movement rising above the age of algorithms.
Valerie Stivers is the author of The Writer's Table, forthcoming from Quarto in 2025. She is Senior Editor, US for UnHerd.
Sarah Hepola is the author of THE ONLY THING THERE IS TO WANT and BLACKOUT (2015). She co-hosts the Substack pod SMOKE 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM and writes the Substack LOVE ANYWAY. She's on staff at The Dallas Morning News.
Journalist. Senior Editor, Public.
On September 2, 2014, a Columbia College senior began carrying a mattress everywhere she went on campus, to protest the school's refusal to expel a man she accused of rape. Here's my book EMMA THE MATTRESS GIRL, in 27 installments.
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