The UVA news release is here; Magill has been Dean at Stanford since 2012. UVA will now be led by a President and Provost, both of whom are graduates of UVA's law school and former members of the UVA law faculty!
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I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that
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