September 2008
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Returning Guest Blogger: Thomas Nadelhoffer
Thomas Nadelhoffer, a leading experimental philosopher and innovator in bringing philosophy to the blogosphere, will be returning as a Guest Blogger starting next week. He’ll be blogging about various philosophical and meta-philosophical topics.
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In case you forgot what a freak Sarah Palin is…
…this ad put out by a wildlife defense group is a good reminder. It apparently is very effective in test groups.
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Hiring Faculty Couples
Story here.
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In Memoriam: Charles Whitebread (1943-2008)
Professor Whitebread, an expert in criminal law and procedure who taught for many years at the University of Virginia and then the University of Southern California, is, of course, best-known to thousands of attorneys around the country for his lucid and entertaining bar review lectures over many, many years. The USC memorial notice is here.
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Will Stock Market Turmoil Delay Faculty Retirements?
We’ve touched on the issue before, but here’s another report and analysis.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s Waning International Influence
Several readers called my attention to this story. The problem, obviously, is lack of ideological diversity on our Supreme Court! As I noted in my debate with Peter Schuck (to which I’ve alluded a bit lately): [B]y global standards—say, in comparison to Britain, or Mexico, or Germany, or Canada—those Democrats who apparently constitute the majority…
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Justice Scalia Says “University of Chicago Law School” Has Gone “Liberal”
So reports the far right New York Sun (and now the ABA Journal has picked it up). I get the sense he didn’t mean it as a compliment. Curiously, he seems to confuse political ideology with "rigor": Chicago, he says, "has changed considerably and intentionally. It has lost the niche it once had as a…
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The Most Brutally Honest Philosophy Job Ad Ever Written?
Probably. (Thanks to Charlie Huenemann for the pointer.)
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Schools With Hiring Needs in (1) Property/Natural Resources/Energy Law, or (2) Jurisprudence/Law & Philosophy,
please feel free to drop me a line, I have some good leads (not all Chicago candidates).
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Sarah Palin: The New Monica Goodling?
Sherrilynn Ifill (Maryland) comments.
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E-Mail Problems
A shutdown of the electrical system at the Law School on Monday night created some problems for those sending me e-mail at my Chicago address. It appears everything got through to me, but not till morning. Please note we’re having a repeat of the same shutdown tonight (Tuesday starting around 5 pm Central Time, 6…
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E-Mail Problems
A shutdown of the electrical system at the Law School on Monday night created some problems for those sending me e-mail at my Chicago address. It appears everything got through to me, but not till morning. Please note we’re having a repeat of the same shutdown tonight (Tuesday starting around 5 pm Central Time, 6…
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Political Philosophy Podcasts
Simon May (Virginia Tech) has posted the details here.
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NEH to Award Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars for Design of Courses…
…that are in fact offered already by every philosophy department in the country. This is really quite bizarre: The [new grant] program, which goes public today, will grant up to $25,000 each for “pre-disciplinary” pilot courses designed to tackle “the most fundamental concerns of the humanities.” Among the “enduring questions” the endowment hopes the courses…
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Rutgers’s Patterson to Take Up Chair in Legal Theory at EUI in Florence
Dennis Patterson (legal philosophy, commercial law), Board of Governors Professor of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, will take up the Chair in Legal Theory at the European University Institute in Florence for a five-year period. (Appointments at the EUI are always for defined terms.) During that time, he will…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii