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Does your university/college have a faculty hiring freeze?

MOVING TO FRONT (ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 18)--MORE INFORMATION WELCOME I have been posting periodically about the Trump war on higher education, which has led to a number of faculty hiring freezes that I have heard about: the University of California...

The SCOTUS decision on nationwide (or "universal") injunctions

A reader asked me to comment on this case, which has garnered a lot of media coverage, mostly of uneven quality. As my colleague elsewhere aptly put it: "Is the Court's decision the end of the world, or will we...

Open access philosophy books: a thread, Part II

MOVING TO FRONT (ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 13)--see what counts as a suitable submission below--no anonymous posts The last thread had 39 submissions, so I thought it's time for a second thread. Instructions as before: In light of the growing number...

Happy 4th of July from a Canadian professor

What he says sounds mostly right to me: It was 249 years ago, when the United States separated from the British Empire. Over the past year it has separated from the world order it built over those 249 years, and...

Dover from UCLA to Rutgers

Daniela Dover (ethics, moral psychology, feminist philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles has accepted appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, to start this fall.

The end of the Humboldtian ideal at Indiana University, Bloomington

This is pretty dramatic: Indiana University Bloomington is suspending or eliminating more than 100 academic programs across a wide range of disciplines ahead of the 2026-27 academic year. The programs are on a list from the Indiana Commission for Higher...

When you're too much of a reactionary bigot even for the Lt. Governor of Texas

That's really something. But let's face it, it's only because his bigotry includes Jews as well as Muslims that all the local Republicans are turning on him. After all, that kind of rhetoric from "Bo French" doesn't fit with the...

Open access philosophy books: a thread, Part II

MOVING TO FRONT FROM MARCH 13--THIS PART II THREAD DIDN'T GET MUCH UPDATE, BUT NOW THAT SEVERAL MONTHS HAVE PASSED, i HOPE THERE ARE MORE SUBMISSIONS (see what counts as a suitable submission below--no anonymous posts) The last thread had...

RFK Jr's plan to kill us all: measles edition

If he depresses vaccination rates further with his pathological ignorance, then we're in big trouble: Measles was eliminated in the U.S. decades ago, but millions of new measles cases could pop up across the country over the next 25 years...

The NYC mayoral race

Zohran Mamdani, a state assemblyman and democratic socialist, scored an upset victory in the Democratic primary over Andrew Cuomo (the former Governor, whose father had also been Governor of New York). He ran on an actual "populist" economic platform (not...