The sheer amount of work seems to be increasing exponentially, and not just in terms of scale but the number of vectors it’s all happening on too. It is impossible to be a top-line manager and ...

The effect — and I believe purpose — of these pardons is to encourage vigilantes and militias loyal to the president, but unaccountable to the government. Illiberal democracies and outright ...

This year, the Central APA will be online, following the 2+1 Campaign in 2021-22. Under the 2+1 model, one of the three divisional APA meetings each year will be virtual, with each division taking a ...

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...for "making political comments" in class. There's not much detail here. We know the Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has open contempt for the First Amendment and academic freedom, but we also don't ...

The Senate will vote this evening on the nomination of Christian authoritarian Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. All the media blather has focused on the fact that he is a drunk and a ...

Harvard Medical School canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston in response to objections that students would ...

In the flurry of execcutive orders by the monster child, I missed this one; as CHE explains: Decades of higher-ed hiring and employment practices aimed at avoiding discrimination could be upended ...

Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in Canada. The situation in the U.S., where many (but certainly not all) of the top programs are ...

I ignore these emails, or I ask the sender to communicate from a real email address if the issue seems important. I promise to protect, as I have for a quarter-century now, the identities of faculty ...

Political philosopher David Owen (at the University of Southampton in the UK) posted about this topic on FB, and then kindly offered to draft something for the blog, since it seemed to me this is ...