According to Typepad, late last night, here are what the monthly stats for November looked like:

As I’ve noted, Typepad’s "today" stats appear to be a count of page views, not unique hits, but the average hits per day appears to be the latter.  With Thanksgiving over, the last two days of November (Monday and Tuesday) were back-to-back records (according to the Web Stat counter):  over 4100 hits both days, and this without the benefit of, e.g., The National Review attacking me.  (That appears likely to continue for a bit, since, today, Arts & Letters Daily has kindly linked to my October 31 entry on Derrida (via Butterflies & Wheels).

I’m not sure to what to attribute this rather striking increase in traffic (it’s a 30% increase over typical, busy October weekdays), but my thanks to all for stopping by.  I realize that the readership may be coming for different purposes–since there are philosophy faculty and students, law faculty and students, academics from other fields, lawyers, those interested in the political issues on which I post, those who simply enjoy verbal shreddings, and so on.  Let me note that the categories on the left-hand column will permit readers with particular interests to find the material they may be especially interested in:  political "stuff" generally appears under "Of Cultural Interest," "Hermeneutics of Suspicion" and "Texas Taliban Alerts"; stuff of interest to law faculty and students under "Law School Updates" and sometimes "Legal Philosophy"; and so on.