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    Thanks so much for this, Matthew. I hadn’t heard about UKALPP’s approach, but it sounds like an excellent model for…

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    Thanks to Colin Marshall for an excellent document. The annual UK Analytic Legal & Political Philosophy (UKALPP) Conference now convenes…

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    Thanks for this comment, Alan. I think the point you make carries weight – especially for some younger philosophers, in-person…

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    I’m a lifelong APA member with APA emeritus status. I see many reasons for the online conference, and perhaps the…

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    Thanks for this, Matt – a good point. In scheduling the Pacific APA, Alex Sager and I did what I…

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    “But, on the other hand, a virtual APA is in principle available to philosophers around the world” This is often…

State Rep. James Talarico, candidate for Senate in Texas, on the Colbert show

CBS didn’t air it, over fear of persecution by the FCC, which has all of a sudden discovered the “fairness” doctrine again. But the show is on YouTube:

Talarico is way too religious for my taste, but this schtick may work in Texas. And generally, he articulates the Bernie Sanders line about what ails the country. So if a Christian anti-oligarch can win in Texas, God bless him!

ADDENDUM: In the interest of technical accuracy, I should note that the official “fairness doctrine” was repealed under Reagan (see my discussion of the history here), but the “equal time rule” (which is similar in spirit to the fairness doctrine, although different in its requirements) is still law–though as reader Louis Cooper wrote to me: “in the past the FCC has said that late-night talk shows, along with news broadcasts, are in a category that is exempt from the equal time rule’s requirements.” In other words, untril Trump, this rule was largely moribund in the context of shows like Colbert’s or “The View.”

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