Brian Leiter's Blog, page 18

Richard Marshall interviews Dennis Diderot...

...at 3:16 AM. I don't know how he manages to land these guys!

The imbecile RFK Jr. ramping up his war on vaccines, one of the great public health triumphs of the 20th-century

He's interfering with vaccine development (which may interfere with updated Covid shots in the fall, unbelievably); and instead of a massive vaccination campaign for measles, the imbecile is directing a study for miracle treatments, including vitamins. Of all the awful...

Harvard "fights" Trump in court, but does his bidding on campus

Revealing report from the Harvard Crimson. Of course, these changes are relatively benign compared to the outrageous demands the Trumpistas were making.

A strong piece by the Columbia philosophy student unlawfully detained by the Trumpistas in Vermont

Here; an excerpt: The American government accuses me of undermining U.S. foreign policy, a patently absurd pretext for deportation for political speech that the Trump administration dislikes. The government is scraping the bottom of the barrel in its attempts to...

Group of Yale faculty call for hiring freeze on administrative staff...

...and a faculty-led audit of administrative bloat. Other universities should probably do the same, although some of the administrative bloat is surely brought on by legal requirements, but much of it is not. (Thanks to Michael Clune for the pointer.)

H��bner from Cornell to UCLA

Karolina H��bner (early modern philosophy, Jewish philosophy, German Idealism, philosophical theology), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she will start this...

Brake from Rice to Wisconsin/Madison

Elizabeth Brake (ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, she she will start next academic year.

Law prof Michael Dorf on Trump's lawlessness

A remarkable catalogue, that deserves to be shared widely. Unless the courts, the other branches of government and civil society get serious about this soon, we're doomed. (As Professor Dorf notes, only one law professor of the 35 that the...

Federal judge frees Columbia philosophy student unlawfully detained by the Trumpistas

Good, but now it remains to be seen what the next move of the fascists will be.

Art of the aphorism, part 2

"We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we end by disguising ourselves from ourselves." --La Rochefoucauld