June 2016
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See how your Senators voted on the recent gun legislation…
…legislation that would have been passed long ago in a civilized nation. If your Senator voted 'no,' please vote him or her out of office (unless the alternative is worse, which may be the case with respect to Democratic Senator Tester in Montana).
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Even though Dopey Donald Chump is going to lose the election…
…America is still doomed, for reasons aptly diagnosed by constitutional law scholar and historian Mark Graber: In 1964, the Republican Party made a fateful decision to “go hunting where the ducks are” in Barry Goldwater’s (in)famous words. Goldwater’s opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that of some of his supporters may have been…
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A Brexit vote double dactyl
Here. (Thanks to Samuel Bruce for the pointer.)
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Religion, Nietzsche, blogging and the PGR
A couple of weeks back, I had the privilege of visiting Springfield, Missouri, for a public lecture on "Why Tolerate Religion?", and then meetings with students at the three colleges there: Missouri State University; Drury University; and Evangel University. (As a sidenote, it was the Templeton Foundation and the Institute for Humane Studies that made…
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More citations by faculty specialty area coming…
…including civil procedure, property, antitrust, critical race and feminist legal theory, and perhaps a couple of others.
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Yale Daily News coverage of the Pogge protest letter
Here. ADDENDUM: The YDN piece suggests that five full professors in the Yale Department did not sign; they are clearly counting all those with courtesy appointments in philosophy (some of those did sign, as it happens, but several didn't–they may not even have known of it, I do not know). But of those whose tenure…
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New Rutgers Chair in Philosophy of Religion
Via Weinberg, I learn that the Chair in Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers, supported in part by a grant from the Templeton Foundation, is now official. Taking a somewhat longer view, this is an interesting development. William Alston, a philosopher of language and epistemologist who eventually became a leading figure in the "Analytic Christian Mafia" in philosophy (besides Alston,…
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Dopey Donald Chump and his tiny hands
At last, a SuperPac is on the case. (And for some background.)
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15 Most-Cited Law & Social Science (excluding economics) Faculty, 2010-2014 (inclusive)
Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study: Rank Name School Citations Age in 2016 1 Tom Tyler Yale University 920 66 2 Lee Epstein Washington University, St. Louis 850 58 3 Frank Cross University of Texas, Austin 800 61 4 Jeffrey Rachlinski Cornell University 770 50 5 Tom Ginsburg University…
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How to Count: Choosing the Right Data Source (Michael Simkovic)
How to Count: Choosing the Right Data Source In response to my last post, a reader asked why different data sources give different counts for the total number of lawyers in a given year.
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An optimistic take on the Trump fiasco…
…he's not only on track to lose in a landslide, he could take down the Republican majorities in Congress with him. Oh happy day!
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160 faculty, including almost all Yale philosophy faculty, sign open letter of protest about Thomas Pogge’s conduct
Story here (with a link to the letter). One notable absence among the Yale faculty signatories is philosopher Tamar Gendler, who is also a Dean, and so presumably not in a position where she can take a public position on what may become a disciplinary matter under her jurisdiction. (I was not aware of this…
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The latest NY Times hatchet job on law schools…
…exposed for the piece of lazy and careless reporting it was.
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8th-grader imitates Presidential contenders and Obama at his middle school graduation
This kid has a great future in comedy. (Thanks to Ruchira Paul for the pointer.)
I never met Alan, sadly, but his work leading the charge in making philosophy of sex “a thing” in contemporary…