Brian Leiter's Blog, page 13

American NeoNazis ramping up activities and training...

...for the obvious reasons.

Signs of the times: Johns Hopkins announces staff hiring freeze, pay freeze

Hopkins runs huge medical and life sciences research programs, heavily dependent on federal monies, so this is not surprising. The University of Chicago (which gets much less NIH money) has not announced a hiring freeze, but has announced a freeze...

Signs of the times: Johns Hopkins announces hiring freeze, pay freeze

Hopkins runs huge medical and life sciences research programs, heavily dependent on federal monies, so this is not surprising. The University of Chicago (which gets much less NIH money) has not announced a hiring freeze, but has announced a freeze...

Berkeley's lawsuit against the Trumpistas for unlawful termination of grants

Here. It's a good survey of the multiple ways in which almost everything Trump is doing to the NSF, NIH, NEH etc. is blatantly illegal. (Thanks to Dean Rowan for the pointer.)

Many Trump efforts to make America unlivable are "beneath the radar" as it were

Case in point, via political scientist Adam Bonica: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently unveiled a "Merit Hiring Plan" that, despite its name, signals a profound departure from a cornerstone of American democracy: the non-partisan, merit-based civil service. Under...

Trump Education Department now trying to get Columbia University's accreditation revoked

One good thing about this preposterous move is it should convince every other university in the country that there is no point to trying to appease the Trumpistas, which Columbia did with its initial capitulation. This got Columbia exactly nothing....

Here's what ICE operations look like "on the ground"

Rather creepy!

Speaking of Marx, here's a video of a "book talk" event at UChicago's Stone Center on Inequality...

...hosted by Professor Steven Durlauf (an economist in the Harris School of Public Policy here), with remarks by myself and Jaime Edwards, and commentary by Professor Durlauf and Professor Geoffrey Wodtke (UChicago Sociology). It was a lot of fun and...

Lederman from Texas to NYU

Harvey Lederman (logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, Chinese philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at New York University, where he will start in 2026-27. That's...

Edwards & Leiter's "Marx" volume now a "bestseller"...

...at least by academic standards; Routledge tells me the book has sold 1500 copies in just eight months! Thank you readers!