The sheer amount of work seems to be increasing exponentially, and not just in terms of scale but the number of vectors it’s all happening on too. It is impossible to be a top-line manager and ...

Law professor Steven Vladeck explains the constitutional and legal issues; a few excerpts: In essence, the Trump administration is claiming the unilateral power to at least temporarily “impound” tens ...

As of this writing, the United States Health and Human Services is still under a communications embargo. Agencies such as the CDC, NIH, FDA and 10 others remain unable to communicate to the ...

Philosopher Colin Marshall writes This year, the Central APA will be online, following the 2+1 Campaign in 2021-22. Under the 2+1 model, one of the three divisional APA meetings each year will be ...

The effect — and I believe purpose — of these pardons is to encourage vigilantes and militias loyal to the president, but unaccountable to the government. Illiberal democracies and outright ...

Philosopher Colin Marshall writes This year, the Central APA will be online, following the 2+1 Campaign in 2021-22. Under the 2+1 model, one of the three divisional APA meetings each year will be ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 7--UPDATED I was sorry to learn that Professor Wolff died last night. He was, of course, well-known to readers of this blog for his many trenchant insights into ...

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"making political comments" in class. There's not much detail here. We know the Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has open contempt for the First Amendment and academic freedom, but we also don't know ...

Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in Canada.. The situation in the U.S., where many (but certainly not all) of the top programs are ...

MOVING TO FRONT, ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 4 The full ad (and application links) are here.. Here's the basic description (please note the Workshop theme, it's essential that the candidate be able to ...