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Whisteblower report on efforts by Emil Bove (now nominated to 3rd circuit) and others to defy court orders

3 days ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

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Philosopher and Kant scholar Paul Guyer elected to the American Philosophical Society

5 days ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

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Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

6 days ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

As the Athenians spoke to the Melians, so too does Trump speak to Iran: "Let’s work out what we can do on the basis of what both sides truly accept: we both know that decisions about justice are made in human discussions only when both side are under equal compulsion; but when one side is stronger, it gets as much as it can, and the weak must accept that."
Some gallows humor from an Israeli academic friend

1 week ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

He writes: "A few hours ago a missile that was headed to Ben-Gurion University hit a hospital instead, and there is a lot of damage there. Many missiles are targeted at universities. (The joke among Israeli academics is that the Iranians understand the importance of higher education much better than the Israeli government does)."
Does your university/college have a faculty hiring freeze?

1 week ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

I have been posting periodically about the Trump war on higher education, which has led to a number of faculty hiring freezes that I have heard about: the University of California system, Northwestern, for example. Please post here about hiring freeze announcements at your higher education institution (you can post anonymously, but include a valid university email address, which will not appear--if you can link to a source, even better).
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

1 week ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

Philosopher Bryan Frances writes: Here’s an idea for a new philosophy journal, called “Germ”. All it publishes are the germs of ideas. No development, no stage-setting, no detailed arguments, no treatment or even mention of the relevant literature, and so on. Max word length would be something like 500. When submitting to the journal, the author has the option of including a 1000-word semi-development of the idea, just so the referees can see what the alleged benefits of the idea might be.
Connell from Birkbeck to Notre Dame

2 weeks ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

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We are heading into an even more dangerous moment under the tyrant Trump

2 weeks ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

Protests against ICE, against the persecution of immigrants, and against the military invasion of Los Angeles are spreading--including to Chicago--and this is likely to increase exponentially with each Trump provocation. Trump would love nothing better than to send the national guard and military into Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, etc. That will, of course, put many more citizens at risk, since the military and national guard are not trained in policing or crowd management.
On the shameless lies undergirding the military invasion of Los Angeles

2 weeks ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

This is right:Administration officials like Stephen Miller are pushing the idea that Los Angeles is “occupied territory,” as evidenced by the foreign flags some protesters are carrying. Americans who still have hope for democracy should be saying, as loudly and as often as they can, that this is an insultingly stupid lie to justify a dictatorial power grab.
A serious, rather than rhetorical, Trump-Hitler comparison...

2 weeks ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

...from law professor Matthew Finkin, who examines the legal mechanisms by which the Nazis consolidated power, with comparisons to Trump (as well as noting some importance differences). Before Orban, there was Hitler, and it's worth paying attention to some of the unnerving parallels.