May 2006
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A Plethora of Moves…
…most of which I learned about in the course of up-dating the faculty rosters for the fall 2006 surveys. Here they are (apologies for inadvertent omissions): *Raphael Woolf (ancient philosophy), currently on tenure-track at Harvard University, has accepted a post as Reader in the Department of Philosophy at King’s College, London. *Brian Skyrms (decision and…
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Schachter, Brodie from Wisconsin to Stanford
Jane Schachter and Juliet Brodie, both at the University of Wisconsin Law School, have accepted the senior offers from Stanford Law School.
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On Ann Althouse
This philosophy graduate student is not, it appears, a fan of her blog.
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Canadian health care, continued (Wilson)
In Toronto recently, Clinton warned Canadians away from the U.S. health care model: The answer to Canada’s health-care woes does not lie in the "insane" system in place south of the border, former U.S. president Bill Clinton said last night. Speaking in Toronto, Mr. Clinton said that reform may be needed in Canada, but he…
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U of Chicago Students/Faculty: Advice Sought!
I’ll be teaching at the University of Chicago Law School in the fall, and one of the places I may live is at East 55th and S. Dorchester in Hyde Park. I’m wondering whether one can get by without a car there in terms of grocery shopping, restaurants, and the like. Please e-mail me or…
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Another Pleasing Commencement Address (Leiter)
By Gary Olson, a political science professor, at Moravian College.
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Solum’s Entry-Level Hiring Report
Your last chance to contribute until the end of summer is now. We’ll be using this data to supplement data my RA collected about tenure-track faculty at the top fifty law schools during 2005-06, in order to see which schools place the most graduates at the best schools. The top five (in order) won’t be…
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Sad day (Hellie)
I’ve been following some discussion of the reporter Jason Leopold who was the source for my earlier announcement that Rove had been indicted — apparently his reliability is questionable. And now this: A spokesman for a top White House aide under scrutiny in a criminal leak probe, Karl Rove, yesterday vigorously denied an Internet report…
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BBC Mistakenly Interviews Taxi Driver, Thinking He Was Computer Expert (Leiter)
This is extremely funny. The cabbie performs brilliantly! UPDATE: Albert Atkin (Glasgow) points out this BBC item indicating that he was not a taxi driver, but someone who had come to the BBC to interview for a staff position.
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Draft Faculty Lists–May 12 version
MAY 17 UPDATE: The new version is here. Post all comments there as well. MOVING TO FRONT FROM MAY 12 I’m uploading a new version, and creating a new comments section (no anonymous posts–and post your corrections here, please don’t e-mail me), of the draft faculty lists for the fall 2006 PGR surveys: Download pgr_faculty_lists_for_2006.doc.…
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Republican Theocracy (Leiter)
Kevin Phillips, Republican strategist for four decades, who can still remember when honorable men might rationally choose to vote Republican, offers a condensed version of his recent book on American Theocracy (a book "dedicated to the millions of Republicans, present and lapsed, who have opposed the Bush dynasty and the disenlightenment in the 2000 and…
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Breaking News: Only 29% of U.S. Population Still Brain Dead! (Leiter)
Details here. To be fair, the survey methodology does not distinguish effectively between brain death, the comatose, culpable ignorance, various psychiatric disorders involving delusions, and extreme moral depravity.
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From Democracy to Despotism, the remix (Wilson)
Now with a beat: This multi-media news-reel re-mixes news clips, protest footage, phone conversations, our President explaining his respect for the Constitution, an interview with blogger/author Glenn Greenwald and a 1946 school documentary concerning the dangers and warning signs of despotism–all set to an incessant rock-and-roll beat. This project is dedicated to Stephen Colbert for…
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The “Christian Fascist” Youth Movement is Here! (Leiter)
An alarming profile here; an excerpt: If you’ve been waiting to get alarmed until the Christian fascist movement started filling stadiums with young people and hyping them up to do battle in “God’s army,” wait no longer. In recent weeks, BattleCry, a Christian fundamentalist youth movement, has attracted more than 25,000 people to mega-rally rock…
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‘Tis the Season for Graduation Addresses (Leiter)
This is a nice one, by Rebecca Solnit.
If you don’t want your journal to publish papers that are written by AI (and I think you should not,…