March 2016
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“Five Books on Nietzsche”
A reader recently wrote to ask some questions about this interview from a few years back, and since, on re-reading it, I still agree with it, I thought I'd post it again for interested readers.
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Outstanding Chicago graduate (who has not been on the teaching market this year) seeking teaching position (tenure-track or VAP) for 2016-17
This individual has an outstanding academic record, has clerked on the U.S. Supreme Court, has fabulous high-level legal experience in the public sector, and extensive teaching experience (and is an excellent teacher). He also has published several articles, including in top law reviews, and has a new job talk paper as well. His areas include administrative…
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Ruth Marcus would have been livid…
…if she had lived to see this. Ruth told me years ago that Butler had great difficulty passing the logic requirement in the Yale PhD program in philosophy, and finally, Ruth took pity, and gave her a pass. I had the sense she later regretted that. On Butler, Martha Nussbaum got it right many years…
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CHE article on Penn State’s efforts to recruit and graduate African-American philosophers, especially women
The article is here. As often happens, it doesn't quite record what I said accurately. I pointed out that a lot of scholarship has been done on the racism of the canonical philosophers, but the value of doing that, which is clear, is a different issue from whether an undergraduate class should spend time on…
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Professor Choudhry’s lawyers challenge University of California President’s treatment of the former Berkeley Dean
They have shared the letter sent to President Napolitano: Download 2016-03-18 Letter to President Napolitano The letter makes a number of very good points. President Napolitano has handled this very badly and unfairly.
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Many thanks to Darlene Deas and Christopher Pynes for guest-blogging last week!
You can visit their contributions by clicking on their "guest blogger" links, below. I've given them both an open invitation to continue posting when they have the opportunity.
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Average salaries by field…
…from IHE. Philosophy, as usual, is lumped with religious studies, but still does somewhat better than other humanities fields.
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How much effort/time should a journal referee expend on a paper?
A senior philosopher elsewhere writes: Like many readers of this blog, I am frequently asked to referee journal submissions. Though I recommend acceptance only very rarely, I feel duty-bound to work as hard on something I agree to referee as I would on something I read for my own scholarship, trying to puzzle through the…
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AAUP issues critical draft report on the current abuse of Title IX by the Dept of Education’s OCR since 2011
The full document is available here, though the Executive Summary is quite accurate as to the contents. Apart from a largely irrelevant fixation on the "corporate university," it's an informative report, one that makes clear how the Assistant Secretaries for Civil Rights in the Department of Education have badly overreached their authority since 2011. The…
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Georgetown Prof. Peller files “grievance” with University Committee over alleged defamation by Dean Treanor
Story here, including a link to the grievance. If the facts as alleged by Peller are accurate, then Dean Treanor should simply provide the requested relief and retract his prior public statement that Prof. Peller had violated Law Center rules.
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“What is a liberal?”
Robert Paul Wolff comments.
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The University of California is a disgrace
Even the New York Times, a usually reliable apologist for the double standards that govern discourse about Israel in America, has to report that what the UC system has done is suspect. It's enough to make one a full supporter of the BDS movement.
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Happy Easter…
…from the Antichrist.
“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”