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Unfortunately, it looks like the $100,000 H1-B Visa fee will apply to universities
That’s my read of this CHE essay on the latest malevolence to emanate from Trump: Another concern is whether the new rule will affect employers that are currently exempt from the cap on the number of H-1B visas companies can use. Colleges are typically exempt from this cap. Jeremy Neufeld, director of immigration policy at…
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Farewell Typepad
Typepad, the soon-to-be defunct blog service provider, hosted this blog for most of its life (roughly from 2005 to earlier this week–the blog started in 2003 on a UTexas blog platform). During the first 22 years, the blog received more than 43,000,000 unique visits (!), averaging over 3,000,0000 unique visits every year in recent years.…
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For readers who use RSS
An RSS feed of this blog is available at https://www.leiterreports.com/feed (Thanks to Michael Risch for calling this to my attention.)
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Martha Nussbaum on the “Lives Well Lived” podcast
A nice overview of themes from her philosophical corpus, and also deeply personal.
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It did happen here, redux
Following up on this, Andrew Sullivan’s diagnosis is candid and accurate; an excerpt: Trump is…a wild boar — psychologically incapable of understanding anything but dominance and revenge, with no knowledge of history, crashing obliviously and malevolently through the ruined landscape of our constitutional democracy….. But the one thing we didn’t really know before now is…
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High school needs philosophy classes
Ivy Watrous, a high school student in California, makes the case here.
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How much trouble are we in with the ChatGPT5?
A lot, it appears. My philosophy colleague Jason Bridges kindly gave permission to share this little experiment he ran on the newest version of the best-known large-language-model. Here was the prompt Professor Bridges gave: “Write a 1000 word essay on Scanlon’s version of contractualism, arguing that although it attempts to register the moral importance of…
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Speaking of authoritarian suppression of speech, Texas State University needs to be sued…
…for firing a tenured history professor for completely lawful political speech (what he is reported to have said comes nowhere near legally actionable "incitement" to violence–it is not even close). I hope the AFA and FIRE are on this one, it's really egregious, but a sign of the times, especially in the benighted state of…
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Authoritarian suppression of political speech now slipping across the border to Canada
Unsurprisingly, given the way the U.S. is going, those who reacted incorrectly to the murder of a far right activist this past week have been losing their jobs, even in academia. The sheer hypocrisy of the Republican Party when it comes to free speech is really breathtaking. Like far too many who talk about "free…
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Women earn an increasing share of PhDs in philosophy (more than a third now)
Interesting data via Professor Schwitzgebel. I can imagine a couple of factors that have contributed to this trend, which seems to have gotten under way in the early part of the last decade. First, starting about 15 yeras ago, many PhD programs made a concerted effort to increase the recruitment of female students, with…
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Political violence has unintended consequences
I have very little to add to what Ezra Klein said about the horrific public murder yesterday of a far right activist, the latest ugly event in a series of attacks on public political figures. We don't yet know whether this was a politically motivated killing, or, like the assassination attempt on then-candidate Trump in…
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Fascism comes to the classroom at Texas A&M
This is the insane but predictable consequence of Trump and the Texas Repugs. The teacher, a senior lecturer, was fired. As incidents like this multiply, public universities in Texas will be finished as major research institutions. What a disaster.
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The federal court decision in favor of Harvard in its lawsuit against Trump
I haven't had a chance to read it carefully, but a First Amendment expert here offers a useful overview of the decision and its significance. If this gets appealed up to the super-legislature, who knows what will happen? My guess is a settlement will be reached before then, but we will see. I suspect the…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that