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“Trump lawyer who praised ‘Mein Kampf’ is now accusing Harvard of antisemitism”
This pretty much sums up the fake war on anti-semitism in the universities.
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In Memoriam: George Pappas (1942-2025)
Professor Pappas, who was emeritus at Ohio State University, where he spent most of his career, was well-known for his work in epistemology and on the philosophy of George Berkeley. There is an obituary here. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Pappas or for those who would like to comment on…
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Is Cambridge University Press still behaving badly?
This post from 2018 laid out some of the (at the time, at least) unique and bad practices of CUP. Have things changed?
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Question from international applicant about the upcoming admissions cycle
MOVING TO FRONT FROM SEPTEMBER 2–PROBABLY A MISTAKE TO HAVE POSTED TIHS ON THE HEELS OF LABOR DAY (IN THE U.S.) AND MY SUMMER BLOGGING HIATUS, SO TRYING AGAIN TO SEE IF ANY READERS WANT TO WEIGH IN A non-U.S. student writes: As an international applicant planning to apply in the coming years, I am…
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Please change your bookmark for this blog to:
https://www.leiterreports.com For now, this will take you to the current version on Typepad, but when I switch blog service provider, it will take you to the new site. I should be able to post the full URL with the WordPress site before too long, but as long as you use the URL above you will…
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Updates at my home page…
…including new books, recent and upcoming talks, former students, and video & audio links, for those who might be interested.
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Best of the summer 2025 blog
For readers who may only be tuning back in, here are some highlights from the summer: June Book talk event on "Marx" at UChicago's Stone Center on Inequality Many Trump efforts to make America unlivable are "beneath the radar" The NYC Mayoral race July The SCOTUS decision on nationawide (or "universal") injunctions Let's remember some…
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The Mafia boss running the United States and the “Department of War”
As Trump gears up for a war of aggression against Venezuela, it's only fitting that he has proposed calling the "Department of Defense" by its traditional name, "the Department of War," since that has always been its primary purpose, from the wars of aggression against Iraq and Vietnam, to the illegal invasions of Grenada and…
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Open access philosophy books: a thread, Part II
MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 6 (ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 13): see for what counts as a suitable submission below–no anonymous posts The last thread had 39 submissions, so I thought it's time for a second thread. Instructions as before: In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread…
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Florida poised to become the preventable disease capital of the developed world…
…as the yahoos who run it propose eliminating vaccine mandates for school children. That basically guarantees outbreaks of measles, chickenpox, whooping cough etc., and will have spillover effects for the millions of elderly retirees in that state. I assume anyone with a brain in their head (not everyone in Florida, needless to say) will leave…
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“Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far”
Thus lied the monster child the other day as a pretext for federalizing the National Guard and sending them to Chicago. (He'll get to Baltimore and San Francisco and New York before long.) Chicago isn't even the "most dangerous city" in the U.S., let alone the world. Using homicides per 100,000 people, Chicago isn't even…
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I talk about Marx, “wage slavery,” the labor theory of value and capitalism…
…at Brain in a Vat. The always delightful interocutors out themselves in this episode as anarcho-capitalists! My co-author of the Marx book, Jaime Edwards, will appear on a separate episode to discuss ideology, "class," and other topics.
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Khalifa from UCLA to Pitt HPS
Kareem Khalifa (philosophy of science), Professor of Philosophy at UCLA, has accepted appointment as Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, starting fall 2027.
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Two senior hires for Oxford: Carpenter from the Einstein Forum, Simion from Glasgow
Amber Carpenter (ancient philosophy), currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Einstein Forum, will start as Professor of Ancient Philosophy (at St Anne's Colelge) in fall 2026; Mona Simion (epistemology), currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, will start as Professor of Philospohy (at Exeter College) effective January 1, 2026.
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The latest on the Amy Wax case
Here. The IHE article on this is misleading (typical of IHE!): the federal judge dismissed only the discrimination claims (which seemed to me preposterous), and since that was the only federal law claim at issue, the federal court declined to take up the state law breach of contract claims. But state law breach of contract is Wax's…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that