July 2025
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How new restrictions on student loans affect prospective law students
Here, from the ABA Journal.
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In Memoriam: Richard Fallon, Jr. (1952-2025)
A leading expert on constitutional law and federal courts, Professor Fallon spent his career at Harvard Law School. There is a news report from the Harvard Crimson here. (Thanks to Michael Naft for the pointer.) UPDATE: The HLS memorial notice.
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Let’s remember some facts, the propaganda barrage of the Trumpistas notwithstanding
Because of the megaphone of the Trumpistas, aided and abetted by the mass media, it is easy to forget how much falsehood is being forced upon us on a daily basis, some of which is then taken up by the opposition as though it is serious. So let's remember some facts: 1. There was no…
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Hegel the political realist?
I'm skeptical, but philosopher Jake McNulty makes an interesting case.
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A simply remarkable first-hand account of the Texas flood
Gripping and also hearbreaking.
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The online Republican party has merged with fascists and racists…
…can the real party be far behind? An excerpt: The key ingredient to this online soup is extremism: from nativism to racial science, to casual neo-Nazism and textbook misogyny. Presented to followers via livestreams, memes and X posts, this deluge of far-right content has been called “slopulism” — a vibes-based politics designed for social media…
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Bender from Göttingen to LMU Munich
Sebastian Bender, "Assistant Professor" at the University of Göttingen, has accepted appointment as Professor of Early Modern Philosophy ("Associate Professor" equivalent; "W2 Professor" in Munich's system) at LMU Munich. That's the second senior hire for LMU Munich this year.
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Hedden from ANU to MIT
Brian Hedden (epistemology, decision theory, ethics [incl. ethics of AI]), Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, has accepted a senor offer from the Department of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The SCOTUS decision on nationwide (or “universal”) injunctions
A reader asked me to comment on this case, which has garnered a lot of media coverage, mostly of uneven quality. As my colleague elsewhere aptly put it: "Is the Court's decision the end of the world, or will we get through it?" The short answer: too soon to say! It may not be that…
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Happy 4th of July from a Canadian professor
What he says sounds mostly right to me: It was 249 years ago, when the United States separated from the British Empire. Over the past year it has separated from the world order it built over those 249 years, and from basic sanity and decency as well. For Americans, the madness gripping their country is…
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Dover from UCLA to Rutgers
Daniela Dover (ethics, moral psychology, feminist philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles has accepted appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, to start this fall.
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The end of the Humboldtian ideal at Indiana University, Bloomington
This is pretty dramatic: Indiana University Bloomington is suspending or eliminating more than 100 academic programs across a wide range of disciplines ahead of the 2026-27 academic year. The programs are on a list from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education released on a PDF from the June 30, 2025 meeting. Universities across Indiana are…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii