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“Is U.S. democracy in danger?”
This documentary by a Turkish journalist doesn’t really answer its title question, but it does involve interesting interviews with the Rutgers historian Mark Bray (who fled to Spain after becoming a target of U.S. crypto- and-not-so-crypto fascists for writing about antifa), philosopher Jason Stanley (who wisely left for Canada), the infamous racist Penn law professor…
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This is why Republican officials are such craven cowards…
…because Trump has a grip on the votes of tens of millions of diehard Republican voters. And it’s that devoted minority of the electorate that is leading the country to ruin. (As a reminder, Thomas Massie, who occasionally bucked the Republican herd, is also a nut.)
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AI prefers to hire resumes written by AI
Oy veh. Pretty pathetic.
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“Oligarch watch”
Grimly amusing, and also informative about these dangerous people.
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The United States was not really a country in which votes counted for most of its history…
…since many people couldn’t vote, but now its about to go back to that totally due to gerry-mandering. Everyone can thank the super-legislature.
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Six law professors elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
They are: William Baude (Chicago), Alison LaCroix (Chicago), Angela Riley (UCLA), Elizabeth Scott (Columbia, emerita), Patricia Williams (Northeastern), and Gideon Yaffe (Yale [elected in the “Philosophy” section]).
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Lawyer to represent a tenant in a dispute with a landlord in the Cambridge, MA area?
If anyone has had a good experience with an attorney experienced in Mass. landlord-tenant matters, please shoot me an email at bleiter-at-uchicago-dot-edu. Thank you.
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Good landlord-tenant lawyer in Somervile or Cambridge, MA to represent a tenant whose landlord is in material breach of the lease
Please email me (bleiter-at-uchicago-dot-edu) any recommendations. Many thanks!
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Four law professors win Guggenheim Fellowships
They are: Justin Driver (Yale), Dov Fox (San Diego), Rick Hasen (UCLA), and Gerard Magliocca (Indiana/Indianapolis).
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I’ll be at Princeton next Tuesday to give a public lecture on academic freedom…
…thanks to a kind invitation from the philosophy majors. Hope to see some readers there. I got my BA in philosophy from Princeton in 1984, and the only faculty member I had a class with who remains is Mark Johnston (he had just started in Spring 1984, and was quite tolerant of my irresponsibly missing…
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Empedocles finally publishes something new!
Well, not exactly, but an old manuscript has been newly discovered. (Thanks to Peter Kail for the pointer.)
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Declining Admissions Offers in a Timely Way
MOVING TO FRONT, SINCE RELEVANT AGAIN (originally posted 2011) ============================================ Keith DeRose (Yale) writes: Since prospective graduate students read your blog for information and advice on applying to graduate programs, I was wondering whether it might be a good idea for you to run a short post on an important way that applicants can help…
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Deciding Between Admissions Offers: The Importance of Visiting/Talking With Current Students
MOVING TO FRONT FROM LAST YEAR (SINCE TIMELY AGAIN–originally posted March 6, 2009) Applicants to PhD and MA programs are now receiving offers of admission and, if they are lucky, are beginning to weigh choices between different departments. I want to reiterate a point made in the PGR, namely, that students are well-advised to talk to current students at…
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A note about memorial notices
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY, 2025 AS A REMINDER ABOUT THE NEW POLICY I have never tried to post memorial notices for all the many teachers of philosophy who die in a given year (I just do not have the time for that). I have tried to limit memorial notices to those who are…
Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy (Harvard University Press & Center for the Study of World Religions, 2026) Permanently…