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

Professor Graham Parsons explains what's going on here; an excerpt: Mr. Trump’s order prohibited any educational institution operated by the armed forces from “promoting, advancing or otherwise inculcating” certain “un-American” theories, including “gender ideology” and the idea that “America’s founding documents are racist or sexist.” Mr. Hegseth’s memo went further, adding that the service academies were prohibited even from providing instruction about such topics.

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

A philosophically-minded political scientist, Professor Michael Munger, was asked to review an OUP book of political philosophy for the Journal of Value Inquiry, published by Springer.  Here is his required "funding statement": For reasons that are literally incomprehensible, the publisher is insisting that I include a “funding statement” in the manuscript. It is worth pointing out that this is a book review.

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

Back in 2009. Of the three cults that afflict philosophy and philosophy-adjacent fields--the Derrida cult, the Strauss cult, and the Rand cult--the last one is certainly the weirdest and most pernicious.

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

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

He's interfering with vaccine development (which may interfere with updated Covid shots in the fall, unbelievably); and instead of a massive vaccination campaign for measles, the imbecile is directing a study for miracle treatments, including vitamins. Of all the awful and unqualified Cabinet appointees, I still suspect RFK Jr. is the most dangerous. Just horrible.