April 2025
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Authoritarian rulers need friends in the capitalist class….
…and Shari Redstone, owner of Paramount (which owns CBS), is one.
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8 philosophers elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
They are: Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins), Noel Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center), Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins), Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern), Liam Murphy (NYU), Peter Singer (Princeton), and Oystein Linnebo (Oslo). In addition, philosopher Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin) was elected in the Education section of the Academy.
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Seven law professors elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
They are: Deborah Archer (NYU), Oona Hathaway (Yale), Kenneth Mack (Harvard), Liam Murphy (NYU), Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), Edward Rubin (Vanderbilt), and Kevin Washburn (Iowa).
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Blast from the past: Trump, the fascist wannabe
Back in 2015–I was right about one thing (he wanted to rule as a tyrant) and spectacularly wrong about another!
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An interview with Graham Priest about Wittgenstein, paradox…
…truth, and non-Western philosophy.
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“The Authoritarian Attack on Truth”
Philosopher Michae Lynch comments.
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Statement from Jewish faculty at Northwestern University…
…on the attempts to weaponize anti-semitism to attack academic freedom and university autonomy.
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Canadian boycott of American products picking up speed
Predictable and understandable, given the behavior of the monster child. (Thanks to Charles Bakker for the pointer.)
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Advice for universities on how to resist the Trumpistas…
…from Ars Technica. Some sensible advice, although it's a shame they don't understand the Kalven Report's idea of "institutional neutrality": academic institutions must, of course, speak out about public issues that affect their ability to function!
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Harvard sues the Trumpistas
Harvard's statement, including a link to the complaint. May they prevail, and quickly! (I am assuming that the Trumpistas will comply with court decisions. If that assumption is wrong, then we're all dead, perhaps literally.)
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War on the universities, Texas edition
Amazing: SB 37, authored by Sen. Brandon Creighton, fundamentally reshapes how colleges and universities approach curriculum, course selection and other elements tied to instruction. Among its provisions: It establishes a method to file complaints about schools suspected of not complying with such changes It creates a state-appointed committee to assess which core curricula are "foundational"…
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Conservatives who believe in the rule of law, 4th Circuit edition
Excellent opinion written by Judge Wilkinson (a Reagan appointee) regarding the wrongful deportation of a Maryland man to El Salvador: It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents…
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Austria welcoming US academics
A job site here, and a news article (auf Deutsch) here.
I disagree with the perspectives described here and wrote with my co-authors on the very real catastrophic potential of AI…