2021 in review, 2nd quarter: April, May, June.

April

New philosophy rankings released (April 1)

Philosopher and cognitive scientist John Sutton explains his decision to take "volutnary [sic] redundancy" at Macquarie University

A list of people "cancelled"

A curious, passing remark about Bernard Williams

"The New Ptolemaism" in the humanities and social sciences

On the motives of academics and administrators in promoting faux "social justice" initatives

"Public philosophy" is not scholarship (and not simply because most of it is bad qua philosophy)

Peter Singer, scholarship, and "equity" in citations

Lindfield University is a disgrace

 

May

Yale report on the economic status of the faculty in "arts & sciences" in 2017-18

Curious elections at the American Academy of "each other's friends in" the Arts & Sciences

Academic freedom is dead at the University of North Carolina

A great Bob Dylan story

Dominic Berry (LSE) once again threatening "gender critical" feminists

June

SAT scores and socioeconomic status

"The Stone" blog at the NY Times is dead

Philosopher Kathleen Stock talks about her new book, "Material Girls"

Hawaii legislature moves to eliminate salary for tenured professor

Anti- "Anti-Racism"

Philosopher Marc Lange's letter to the UNC Board of Trustees

The final nail in the coffin for the failed science of "implicit bias"?