August 2026
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The Trump collaborators: Michael Crow (Arizona State), Ron Daniels (Johns Hopkins), Douglas Girod (Kansas), Andrew Martin (Wash U/St. Louis)
These four university President have participated in drafting a new “call to action” from Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive turned Secretary of Education, to the nation’s universities. Crow and Martin are no surprise, but Daniels is, and he and Martin have now disgraced their universities, since the “call to action” is both internally inconsistent…
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Afterword to “Bernard Williams’s Debt to Nietzsche: Real or Illusory”
This is strictly for those interested in Nietzsche (and Bernard Williams). A propos this post, here is the paper for those who do not have access to Google Drive (the Afterword starts at p. 21 of the typescript):
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“The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy”
Information about this organization and its events here. As legal philosopher Barbara Baum Levenbook (a member of the Executive Committee) wrote to me: The mission of The Collective is to promote and support women in legal philosophy and legal theory (broadly defined) who have a commitment to analytical methodology. The Collective began in 2022 as the brainchild of…
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10 lateral moves announced in 2025-26 that made law professors take notice
Based on my in-box and conversations with others, these were 10 moves that transpired this past year that were thought to be the biggest hiring coups: *Alejandro Camacho (environmental law, natural resources law) from the University of California, Irvine to the University of California, Los Angeles (effective January 2026). *Katherine Mims Crocker (constitutional law) from…
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Is this Black Cambridge professor a plagiarist and fabulist?
A balanced account of the controversy that started on social media.
I never met Alan, sadly, but his work leading the charge in making philosophy of sex “a thing” in contemporary…