John Sanbonmatsu
@jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social
Writer, critical theorist, and professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Author of "The Postmodern Prince" and of "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves." www.JohnSanbonmatsu.com
"Articulate, informative, exceptional, iconoclastic, thoughtful and thought-provoking. An extraordinary and timely contribution to the on-going discussion about the ethics of eating...animals."
-- Midwest Book Review, Oct. 2025
-- Midwest Book Review, Oct. 2025
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
"Articulate, informative, exceptional, iconoclastic, thoughtful and thought-provoking. An extraordinary and timely contribution to the on-going discussion about the ethics of eating...animals."
-- Midwest Book Review, Oct. 2025
-- Midwest Book Review, Oct. 2025
At a time when tens of millions of actual pigs (sensitive, intelligent beings) are being brutalized, tortured, and killed, this sort of thing is absolutely inexcusable. Pigs do not deserve to be "executed"; and we should all stop using "pig" as an insult word. As I write in my book:
November 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
At a time when tens of millions of actual pigs (sensitive, intelligent beings) are being brutalized, tortured, and killed, this sort of thing is absolutely inexcusable. Pigs do not deserve to be "executed"; and we should all stop using "pig" as an insult word. As I write in my book:
After spending months disparaging Mamdani's policy ideas, including his plan for free buses, the @nytimes.com is running this story only now--after the election.
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
After spending months disparaging Mamdani's policy ideas, including his plan for free buses, the @nytimes.com is running this story only now--after the election.
Shout out to Book Passage in Marin for sponsoring my book talk yesterday, to C-SPAN for taping it, and to the wonderful animal advocates who came out to hear it. While waiting in the green room before my remarks I saw this pinned to the wall:
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Shout out to Book Passage in Marin for sponsoring my book talk yesterday, to C-SPAN for taping it, and to the wonderful animal advocates who came out to hear it. While waiting in the green room before my remarks I saw this pinned to the wall:
Fox News at this hour (Wed. night, 11/12): Rupert is doing a great job keeping Trump's name out of today's news about Epstein.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Fox News at this hour (Wed. night, 11/12): Rupert is doing a great job keeping Trump's name out of today's news about Epstein.
Interesting that other than Fox, the @washingtonpost.com is the
only major press outlet that hasn't yet reported on the Epstein emails. I guess Jeff Bezos is still trying to stay on Trump's good side.
only major press outlet that hasn't yet reported on the Epstein emails. I guess Jeff Bezos is still trying to stay on Trump's good side.
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Interesting that other than Fox, the @washingtonpost.com is the
only major press outlet that hasn't yet reported on the Epstein emails. I guess Jeff Bezos is still trying to stay on Trump's good side.
only major press outlet that hasn't yet reported on the Epstein emails. I guess Jeff Bezos is still trying to stay on Trump's good side.
Merely by saying that he will tax the rich, Mamdani has brought down the Democratic Party establishment and its media organs around his head. The @nytimes.com is already running stories implying that Mamdabi as a dangerous, two-faced Red.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Merely by saying that he will tax the rich, Mamdani has brought down the Democratic Party establishment and its media organs around his head. The @nytimes.com is already running stories implying that Mamdabi as a dangerous, two-faced Red.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
A friend just sent me this from the Brooklyn Public Library. If you liked my book The Omnivore's Deception, please ask your library to acquire it!
November 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A friend just sent me this from the Brooklyn Public Library. If you liked my book The Omnivore's Deception, please ask your library to acquire it!
"It's happening pretty fast and doesn't seem to be slowing down and I'm really very unclear about what the U.S.'s approach is going to be."
Look at this table of confirmed H5N1 cases in last 30 days.
www.axios.com/2025/10/27/b...
Look at this table of confirmed H5N1 cases in last 30 days.
www.axios.com/2025/10/27/b...
October 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"It's happening pretty fast and doesn't seem to be slowing down and I'm really very unclear about what the U.S.'s approach is going to be."
Look at this table of confirmed H5N1 cases in last 30 days.
www.axios.com/2025/10/27/b...
Look at this table of confirmed H5N1 cases in last 30 days.
www.axios.com/2025/10/27/b...
AI is merely a commodity to further mystify the origins of social hierarchy and to amplify the already substantial powers of the wealthy:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
AI is merely a commodity to further mystify the origins of social hierarchy and to amplify the already substantial powers of the wealthy:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
From Gary Marcus's presentation on AI, and how the tech mavens continue to hoodwink us into believing that AI is nearing AGI.
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
From Gary Marcus's presentation on AI, and how the tech mavens continue to hoodwink us into believing that AI is nearing AGI.
Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
October 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
October 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Your tax dollars at work in the Middle East. (Not the medical treatment part--the mutilation and killing of children part.)
October 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Your tax dollars at work in the Middle East. (Not the medical treatment part--the mutilation and killing of children part.)
Talk about narcissistic injury--perpetrating a genocide is so "wearying."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
October 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Talk about narcissistic injury--perpetrating a genocide is so "wearying."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
A snapshot of how the information economy has changed, and why we are living in a post-truth environment: some time ago, Google took "News" off its main search bar. (It can only be found now under "More.")
September 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A snapshot of how the information economy has changed, and why we are living in a post-truth environment: some time ago, Google took "News" off its main search bar. (It can only be found now under "More.")
Did the gunman really write "Anti-Ice" on one of the bullets? The problem with this administration is that it lies continually and even murders civilians--which are grounds enough to be skeptical of everything they say.
September 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Did the gunman really write "Anti-Ice" on one of the bullets? The problem with this administration is that it lies continually and even murders civilians--which are grounds enough to be skeptical of everything they say.
Join me on October 15 at BROADSIDE BOOKS in Northampton, Massachusetts, as I talk about my new book "The Omnivore's Deception." 7:00 pm!
#Vegan
#Vegan
September 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Join me on October 15 at BROADSIDE BOOKS in Northampton, Massachusetts, as I talk about my new book "The Omnivore's Deception." 7:00 pm!
#Vegan
#Vegan
This is what the @washingtonpost.com construes as cutting-edge journalism--all the while studiously ignoring the genocide in Gaza.
September 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is what the @washingtonpost.com construes as cutting-edge journalism--all the while studiously ignoring the genocide in Gaza.
Looks like a great event! Sept. 25....Register here:
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rebrand.ly/ClimateJustice
September 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Looks like a great event! Sept. 25....Register here:
rebrand.ly/ClimateJustice
rebrand.ly/ClimateJustice
Bathroom sign in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
August 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Bathroom sign in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
This is how the @nytimes, which has all along been complicit in the Gaza genocide, is framing Israel's latest massacre of medical personnel and journalists: instead of a headline naming what happened as a war crime and crime against humanity, a headline relating Netanyahu's shameless lies about it.
August 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This is how the @nytimes, which has all along been complicit in the Gaza genocide, is framing Israel's latest massacre of medical personnel and journalists: instead of a headline naming what happened as a war crime and crime against humanity, a headline relating Netanyahu's shameless lies about it.
The @nytimes published hundreds of online comments about the question of Palestinian statehood, but declined to publish mine. So I am posting it here.
#Gaza
#Gaza
August 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The @nytimes published hundreds of online comments about the question of Palestinian statehood, but declined to publish mine. So I am posting it here.
#Gaza
#Gaza