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2018 Year in Review, second quarter: April, May, June

April

Announcing guest bloggers for April!

Sean Hermanson on "Rethinking Implicit Bias"

Where tenure-stream faculty at the U.S. top 20 (2017-18) got their PhDs

Reed College capitulates to mindless 18-year-olds

Privacy on the Internet, and with Google and Gmail in particular

Someone who actually understands Marx, better than most professional philosophers

The Leiter top ten in philosophy

Peter Singer's understanding of Marx is incompetent

May

An interview in Il Manifesto about identity politics, Marx, Trump, and more

Steps at a university in Lebanon

Why aren't more philosophers discussing the issues raised by the claim of transgender women to be women? (the blog post that launched a thousand other blog post and comments)

Mellon Foundation grant to develop a code of publishing ethics, i.e., a post-hoc rationalization for the mistreatment of Professor Tuvel

"Neither cis nor TERF"

The disappearing anonymous and pseudonymous blogs

The tragedy of student suicide

Pyramid of the capitalist system

Deciding between graduate school in philosophy and law school

Gender, Sex, Biology, and Sports

June

Blaming the victim is apparently OK when the accused in aTitle IX proceeding is a feminist literary theorist (the blog post that led to a New York Times article and exposed the "theory illuminati" for the moral hypocrites they are)

This isn't the first time 'theory' professors tried to bully a school out of investigating sexual harassment:  Derrida did it too!

"Nietzsche:  The Truth is Terrible" (all you need to know in 2500 words)

 

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