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News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world's most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.

News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world's most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.

The imbecile has now cancelled $500 million in mRNA vaccine development contracts: The new cancellations dismayed scientists, many of whom regard mRNA shots as the best option for protecting Americans ...

Pretty grim, and confirms the depths of the violation of academic freedom of scholars in certain fields: [I]t is impossible to teach this course [on modern Middle East history] (and much else) in ...

Calling out the hypocrisy of the Trump administration is, of course, too easy. After all, we have a president supported by actual Nazis who uses the claim that he is fighting ...

So with not quite 1,000 participants, and nearly 90,000 votes on comparisons cast, here are the top 25 (the score in parentheses reflects the odds of the journal prevailing in a comparison): 1.

636 votes in our latest poll, on the best "general" journals of philosophy (those that publish in multiple areas). The "top 20" are bolded--beyond that the results are even less meaningful I expect.

So with almost 550 votes cast, and voting have slowed dramatically, here are the results of our latest poll. First, there are the "big seven" who dominate all others on the list: 1. Oxford University ...

That would seem to be the takeaway from this remarkable letter (written, I am told, by Judith Butler) in support of Avital Ronell, who teaches in German and Comparative Literature at NYU: Download ...

Oh how the mighty have fallen; Committee A of the AAUP used to be a reliable defender of academic freedom, but since its capture by the enemies of academic freedom, it has been going downhill fast.