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Where (untenured) tenure-track faculty at the U.S. top 20 Ph.D. programs earned their Ph.D., 2025-26 edition (updated with corrections as of 9/3/2025)

MOVING TO FRONT FROM SEPTEMBER 1 It looks like the last time we collected this data was 2023, and the changes are minimal: 1. Harvard University (9) 1. Princeton University (9) 3. New York University (6) 3. University of California,...

"Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far"

Thus lied the monster child the other day as a pretext for federalizing the National Guard and sending them to Chicago. (He'll get to Baltimore and San Francisco and New York before long.) Chicago isn't even the "most dangerous city"...

I talk about Marx, "wage slavery," the labor theory of value and capitalism...

...at Brain in a Vat. The always delightful interocutors out themselves in this episode as anarcho-capitalists! My co-author of the Marx book, Jaime Edwards, will appear on a separate episode to discuss ideology, "class," and other topics.

Khalifa from UCLA to Pitt HPS

Kareem Khalifa (philosophy of science), Professor of Philosophy at UCLA, has accepted appointment as Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, starting fall 2027.

Question from international applicant about the upcoming admissions cycle

A non-U.S. student writes: As an international applicant planning to apply in the coming years, I am concerned that there may be hidden policies or informal biases that disadvantage students from outside the U.S., particularly given the ongoing uncertainty surrounding...

Two senior hires for Oxford: Carpenter from the Einstein Forum, Simion from Glasgow

Amber Carpenter (ancient philosophy), currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Einstein Forum, will start as Professor of Ancient Philosophy (at St Anne's Colelge) in fall 2026; Mona Simion (epistemology), currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, will...

Where (untenured) tenure-track faculty at the U.S. top 20 Ph.D. programs earned their Ph.D., 2025-26 edition (updated with corrections)

It looks like the last time we collected this data was 2023, and the changes are minimal: 1. Harvard University (9) 1. Princeton University (9) 3. New York University (6) 3. University of California, Berkeley (6) 3. Yale University (6)...

The latest on the Amy Wax case

Here. The IHE article on this is misleading (typical of IHE!): the federal judge dismissed only the discrimination claims (which seemed to me preposterous), and since that was the only federal law claim at issue, the federal court declined to...

Trump's paramilitary forces

This deserves more notice, and if the Democrats manage to retake Congress, they need to dismantle these stormtrooper outfits: I see the evisceration of due process. I see detention centers being built where it is extraordinarily hard for lawyers and...

Blog service providers--advice sought

So Typepad, the blog service provider I have used for many yeras, is shutting down on September 30 of this year. The domain name, which I own, namely www.leiterreports.com, will remain unchanged, but I'll need to move the blog content...