News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world's most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.

News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world's most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.

News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world's most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.

The imbecile has now cancelled $500 million in mRNA vaccine development contracts: The new cancellations dismayed scientists, many of whom regard mRNA shots as the best option for protecting Americans ...

Pretty grim, and confirms the depths of the violation of academic freedom of scholars in certain fields: [I]t is impossible to teach this course [on modern Middle East history] (and much else) in ...

Calling out the hypocrisy of the Trump administration is, of course, too easy. After all, we have a president supported by actual Nazis who uses the claim that he is fighting ...

Eklund vs. Kodsi, at The Philosopher's Magazine.Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics.

Because of the megaphone of the Trumpistas, aided and abetted by the mass media, it is easy to forget how much falsehood is being forced upon us on a daily basis, some of which is then taken up by the ...

The key ingredient to this online soup is extremism: from nativism to racial science, to casual neo-Nazism and textbook misogyny. Presented to followers via livestreams, memes and X posts, this deluge ...

More signs of the times: Duke Medicine to cut salaries of tenured faculty who do not meet certain external grant thresholds ...

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