Harvard Medical School canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston in response to objections that students would ...

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The Senate will vote this evening on the nomination of Christian authoritarian Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. All the media blather has focused on the fact that he is a drunk and a ...

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 ...

In the flurry of execcutive orders by the monster child, I missed this one; as CHE explains: Decades of higher-ed hiring and employment practices aimed at avoiding discrimination could be upended ...

I ignore these emails, or I ask the sender to communicate from a real email address if the issue seems important. I promise to protect, as I have for a quarter-century now, the identities of faculty ...

The penulimate version on SSRN, for a volume that OUP will publish on the legal philosophy of Leslie Green. The abstract: Leslie Green raised an important challenge to my reconstruction of the ...

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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 ...

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 ...