MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–THIS WILL RUN FOR ABOUT ANOTHER 24 HOURS

Here's a poll in which you can rank order various issues that come up with some frequency on blogs and in correspondence.

UPDATE:  A philosophy graduate student writes:

I was surprised to see that you did not include any reference to people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise part of the LGBTQ community. This surprised me for three reasons. First, like the aforementioned issues in our profession, these are pressing. Second, in the country at large, LGBTQ equality is among the most important civil rights issues of our time. Third, you have repeatedly gone to bat for LGBTQ equality on your blog–something that I and many other readers have truly appreciated.

This is a fair point, and was clearly an oversight on my part, due in some degree to the fact that (1) LGBTQ philosophers have been less vocal about continuing discrimination on social media in my experience, and (2) my sense that the profession has done better by LGBTQ philosophers than some other groups (for example).  But it should have been included as a category for voting purposes, for which my apologies.