October 2021
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Florida purports to bar faculty from testifying in a voting rights trial–is it legal?
Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, the clean-cut Trumpian face of the Republican Party's future, has now moved to block faculty at the University of Florida from testifying in a case brought against the Republican attempt to prevent the "wrong" people from voting: Three University of Florida professors have been barred from assisting plaintiffs in a…
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Florida purports to bar faculty from testifying in a voting rights trial–is it legal?
Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, the clean-cut Trumpian face of the Republican Party's future, has now moved to block faculty at the University of Florida from testifying in a case brought against the Republican attempt to prevent the "wrong" people from voting: Three University of Florida professors have been barred from assisting plaintiffs in a…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Les Variations, “Completely Free,” 1969
We featured this French rock band (all Jews of Moroccan extraction) earlier this year; here's another hard blues rock number from their debut album:
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Les Variations, “Completely Free,” 1969
We featured this French rock band (all Jews of Moroccan extraction) earlier this year; here's another hard blues rock number from their debut album:
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PGR surveys scheduled to close this Monday, Nov. 1….
…at 11:59 pm Mountain time. So if you've been procrastinating on your invitation, now is the time to complete the survey, and join the list of evaluators that have already completed the surveys, including Ted Sider, Brian Skyrms, David Enoch, Hanna Pickard, Cheryl Misak, John Hawthorne, David Wallace, Verity Harte, Shelly Kagan, Paul Guyer, Allen…
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PGR surveys scheduled to close this Monday, Nov. 1….
…at 11:59 pm Mountain time. So if you've been procrastinating on your invitation, now is the time to complete the survey, and join the list of evaluators that have already completed the surveys, including Ted Sider, Brian Skyrms, David Enoch, Hanna Pickard, Cheryl Misak, John Hawthorne, David Wallace, Verity Harte, Shelly Kagan, Paul Guyer, Allen…
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When the current US Supreme Court strikes down race-conscious admissions procedures…
…which they will almost certainly do in the next couple of years, the Court will, oddly enough, in this instance have majority sentiment on its side, if not elite opinion: opposition to using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions decisions for colleges is quite widespread. More than 60% of Blacks, Hispanics, and Democrats say…
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When the current US Supreme Court strikes down race-conscious admissions procedures…
…which they will almost certainly do in the next couple of years, the Court will, oddly enough, in this instance have majority sentiment on its side, if not elite opinion: opposition to using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions decisions for colleges is quite widespread. More than 60% of Blacks, Hispanics, and Democrats say…
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10 Most-Cited Immigration Law Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty working on immigration law (including the intersection of immigration and criminal law & procedure ["crimmigration"]) in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand…
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Applying to PhD programs: how one leading PhD program looks at applications
Philosopher Alex Guerrero (Rutgers) shares some useful information, most of which rings true to me. (One additional note, regarding applicants with publications in good journals: Professor Guerrero tells me on FB that about 5-8% of applicants to Rutgers have publications, but many of those are coming out of terminal MA programs or transferring from other…
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Applying to PhD programs: how one leading PhD program looks at applications
Philosopher Alex Guerrero (Rutgers) shares some useful information, most of which rings true to me. (One additional note, regarding applicants with publications in good journals: Professor Guerrero tells me on FB that about 5-8% of applicants to Rutgers have publications, but many of those are coming out of terminal MA programs or transferring from other…
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Texas legislator draws up list of 850 books dealing with race and sexuality…
…that could cause "discomfort" (or maybe even "feelings of exclusion" or "harm"?).
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Texas legislator draws up list of 850 books dealing with race and sexuality…
…that could cause "discomfort" (or maybe even "feelings of exclusion" or "harm"?).
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Brad Rosenheim (South Florida) and Dawn Sumner (UC Davis) are enemies of academic freedom
Two other choices quotes from the Boston Globe article about MIT faculty protesting the shabby treatment of Professor Abbot: Brad Rosenheim, associate professor of oceanography at the University of South Florida, said EAPS did the right thing because Abbot’s opinionsconflict with the department’s official stand on diversity, equity, and inclusion. “It’s almost schizophrenic, in a…
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Brad Rosenheim (South Florida) and Dawn Sumner (UC Davis) are enemies of academic freedom
Two other choices quotes from the Boston Globe article about MIT faculty protesting the shabby treatment of Professor Abbot: Brad Rosenheim, associate professor of oceanography at the University of South Florida, said EAPS did the right thing because Abbot’s opinionsconflict with the department’s official stand on diversity, equity, and inclusion. “It’s almost schizophrenic, in a…
21. Is style the last refuge against AI?