Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

A nice illustration of how skewed to the right the American political spectrum is

Here.  Sanders, who would be an ordinary social democrat anywhere else in the civilized world, is the outlier in America.  As someone recently noted, Ronald Reagan is still President in the U.S.

Robert Paul Wolff on ideological critique: Lectures 3 and 4

MOVING TO FRONT FROM FRIDAY, FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE MISSED IT

Here and here.

JHP Article Prize for 2015

Philosopher Jack Zupko (Alberta), Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, kindly shares the following news:

The Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded the prize for the best article to appear in volume 53 (2015) of the JHP to Therese Scarpelli Cory for “Rethinking Abstractionism: Aquinas’s Intellectual Light and Some Arabic Sources” in JHP 53.4: 607–46.  Professor Cory is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Details here (upper right corner, under 'Announcements'): http://philosophy.wisc.edu/jhp/.

As putative "liberals" attack Bernie Sanders's single-payer health plan...

...this is a useful counterweight to some of the attacks.