Archive for category: Op-Ed

Book Preview for “Hello, world, I’m the dad of a trans kid”

April 30, 2026/in Op-Ed/by Pete T

Book Preview: Chapter One

April 30, 2026/in Op-Ed/by Pete T

Book Preview: Chapter Two

April 30, 2026/in Op-Ed/by Pete T

Book Preview: Chapter Three

April 30, 2026/in Op-Ed/by Pete T

Book Preview: Chapter Four

April 30, 2026/in Op-Ed/by Pete T

Book Preview: Chapter Five

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Book Preview: Chapter Six

April 30, 2026/in Op-Ed/by Pete T

Book Preview: Chapter Seven

April 30, 2026/in Op-Ed/by Pete T

Book Preview: Chapter Eight

April 30, 2026/in Op-Ed/by Pete T

Book Preview: Chapter Nine

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Book Preview: Chapter Ten

April 29, 2026/in Op-Ed/by Pete T

Book Preview: Chapter Eleven

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Book Preview: Chapter Twelve

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Book Preview: Chapter Thirteen

April 29, 2026/in Op-Ed/by Pete T

Scientific Rebel Podcast on Buzzsprout

Trailer May 9, 2026
Send us Fan Mail"Hello, world. I'm the dad of a trans kid."I first voiced those words about a decade ago. They would have seemed completely foreign to my younger self, but life has a way of reminding us that this beautiful, maddening, largely unpredictable world still has plenty of surprises in store for us.To this […]
Peter Tchoryk
Origins of Scientific Rebellion May 8, 2026
Send us Fan Mail“Hello, world. I’m the dad of a trans kid.”That was how I started my first post to address the explosion of false accusations and conspiracy theories stemming from another parent outing our family on Facebook. I went on to explain that our young trans son was not actually a threat to God […]
Peter Tchoryk
Episode 1: A Superpower Hiding in Plain Sight May 7, 2026
Send us Fan MailHere is a sentence I did not expect to write but now wonder why it took me so long. The most powerful, and perhaps most underrated, of human attributes is curiosity and its inseparable twin, critical thinking.Within this humble duo lies the power to transform individuals, societies, and the entire human race. […]
Peter Tchoryk
Episode 2: What I Didn't Know May 6, 2026
Send us Fan MailMy son was not quite three when he first started telling us he was a boy. He had been assigned female at birth. At first my wife and I chalked it up to one of those “kids say the darndest things” comments. When he kept asserting it, we thought maybe he was […]
Peter Tchoryk
Episode 3: Beginnings May 5, 2026
Send us Fan MailIn this episode I want to start at the very beginning. Not the beginning of my story. The beginning of the human nervous system, which is where the trouble starts.In the 1940s, the psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed what is now one of the most widely recognized frameworks in social science — a […]
Peter Tchoryk
Episode 4: Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method May 4, 2026
Send us Fan MailIn this episode I want to tell you about the toolkit. Not the romantic version of the scientific method you may remember from a high school poster — “observe, hypothesize, experiment, conclude” — but the actual, lived, hard-won toolkit that human beings spent thousands of years inventing in order to manage uncertainty […]
Peter Tchoryk
Episode 5: Morality from Religion? Nah. May 3, 2026
Send us Fan MailThere is a claim at the center of almost every argument for keeping religion embedded in public life: without religion, we have no morality. Strip away the church and the commandments, and all that remains is chaos. This argument is so pervasive that it has become almost invisible. An assumption so widely […]
Peter Tchoryk
Episode 6: Faith as Certainty — A Complicated and Consequential History May 2, 2026
Send us Fan MailThis episode is about the difference between humble faith and weaponized faith. The difference matters enormously, and our public conversation regularly collapses the two. So I want to draw the line carefully, before I make the harder argument.I am not arguing that religious faith is inherently harmful. I am not arguing that […]
Peter Tchoryk
Episode 7: Race, Caste, and the Certainty of “Us” Versus “Them” May 1, 2026
Send us Fan MailThis episode is about how the United States manufactured one of the most consequential certainties in modern history — and what it has taken to dismantle it, piece by piece, where it has been dismantled.Race, as a biological category, does not exist in the way American society has long treated it. The […]
Peter Tchoryk
Episode 8: The Gender Binary and the Anxiety of Ambiguity April 30, 2026
Send us Fan MailOur family's journey began on Easter Sunday more than a decade ago. We had recently joined the First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor, and that morning was worse than the usual fire drill. Frankly, we were just hoping to make it before the end of service.In the middle of the chaos, my […]
Peter Tchoryk