June 2021
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In Memoriam: Frithjof Bergmann (1930-2021)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–UPDATED A longtime member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he was emeritus, Professor Bergmann was a popular undergraduate lecturer in courses on existentialism and 19th-century German philosophy, and author of articles on Hegel and Nietzsche, as well as the book On Being…
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Attacking injured veterans of imperial wars of aggression…because they’re white
This is appropriately scathing, and also amusingly written. An excerpt: I would not think that I would still have the capacity to be offended, after all these years of being desensitized, but Chris Lehmann has proven me wrong. Lehmann wrote something of such special cruelty that today I am moved to write in anger. I…
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Is the age bias in law school hiring a thing of the past?
Here. (Earlier coverage.) (Thanks to Bernadette Meyler for the pointer.) In my other academic field, philosophy, it is quite common (indeed probably the norm) for faculty to make lateral moves later in their careers, rather than earlier: faculty in their 50s and 60s frequently take tenured positions at peer or stronger departments. When I started…
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Stanford University investigates student for parodying Federalist Society
Unbelievable. UPDATE: Stanford relents.
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“The Originalist Case for Inciting Insurrection” courtesy of the Stanford Federalist Society
UPDATE: Stanford relents. (The Stanford Law Dean has also sent a message to alumni noting that the Law School had nothing to do with this travesty.) The Stanford Law student responsible for this very funny satire is now under investigation by Stanford, and his graduation is endangered! What an embarrassment for Stanford! (Thanks to Jeremy…
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In Memoriam: Robert Ammerman (1927-2021)
Professor Ammerman was emeritus in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he spent his career. Philosopher Mike Titelbaum at Wisconsin shared an obituary written by Professor Ammerman's son: Robert R. Ammerman joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in 1957. He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927, and…
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Sign of the COVID times…
…Chicago reported only 62 new cases of COVID in the entire city yesterday–that's by far the lowest daily total since testing began more than 14 months ago.
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SAT scores and socioeconomic class
MOVING TO FRONT (ORIGINALLY POSTED MAY 27)–AN INFORMATIVE DISCUSSION, BELOW I do not know this literature, but this author claims that SAT together with GPA is a very good predictor of college performance, and that the impact of socioeconomic status on SAT scores is minimal. Is he correct? Is he correctly representing the literature? I'd…
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Summer blogging
With the arrival of June, I'll go onto my informal summer blogging schedule–I won't take a month off this summer, but I will blog a bit less than during the academic year. Advertising rates are also reduced for summer–email me for details. There are spots in July and August (although some top spots are already…
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The *other* Nuremberg trials…
…and the failure to prosecute most of the German business leaders who aided and profited from the Nazis.
Don’t click the transcript – it’s a mis-transcription that makes Harvey sound unhinged. The bit of it that’s visible without…