Category Archives: Academia

The West’s Ongoing Collapse at the Hands of Identity Politics and Neoliberal Ideology: 2019 Update

Posted on September 11, 2019 by

The free fall of contemporary academia into speech & thought totalitarianism continued … & likely to progress further given the unwillingness of those with resources to use them to oppose this ongoing juggernaut. Continue reading →

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“Philosophy in Three & a Half Years”

Posted on December 3, 2018 by

Seen by accident, “ganked” off Colin McGinn’s blog this morning, this comment caught my eye. Writing back in April 2017 under the title “Philosophy in Five Years” he predicted: I think the field will be a complete shambles. It’s already … Continue reading →

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A New American Philosophical Association Organization?

Posted on October 13, 2018 by

This past week, philosophy’s top blogger Brian Leiter posted a poll on a quite interesting topic: Would you leave the [American Philosophical Association] and join a new dues-charging professional philosophy association that does much of what the APA does, but without … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to Professor C. Christine Fair, Georgetown University

Posted on October 6, 2018 by

Re: “Look at this chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement. 
All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? … Continue reading →

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Why Is Philosophy Important? An Expanded Comment

Posted on August 28, 2018 by

Daily Nous, the philosophy blog, posted a recent query raising this question in response to an undergraduate who had fallen in love with the subject. Presumably she’d gotten some flak from friends or maybe family. The blog’s editor, Justin Weinberg … Continue reading →

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“Should I Pursue a Doctorate in Philosophy These Days?”

Posted on August 23, 2018 by

Should you even consider getting a doctorate and going into academic philosophy today? Even if you find the subject endlessly fascinating, and you have talent for it? The question comes up occasionally on forums. Someone I am “friends” with on … Continue reading →

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“Anti-Intellectualism and How Fascism Works”: A Comment

Posted on August 17, 2018 by

I followed the link from here to IHE’s “Anti-Intellectualism and How Fascism Works,” an interview with Jason Stanley (Yale) who has authored a book entitled How Fascism Works. I’d been thinking of posting a comment, but discovered that the comments thread … Continue reading →

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