2021 in review, 4th quarter: October, November, December

October

The study of philosophy in law schools, and JD/PhD programs in the U.S. (and elsewhere), 2021 edition

MIT cancels distinguished lecture by geoscientist who expressed "incorrect" views about diversity

On Macroeconomics, in the NYT (a discussion)

Charles Mills and his critique of Rawls (a discussion)

Yale's President is extremely confused about the role of academic freedom and his job

Talking about the Chinese Room argument with a chatbot

The attack on tenure in Georgia

SSHRC (in Canada) requiring "diversity" in research proposals (a discussion)

No wonder Schopenhauer was a pessimist!

Right-wing newspapers have a selective interest in freedom of expression, part 373

Philosopher Kathleen Stock resigns her position at Sussex (with a cameo by Bryan Van Norden)

Florida purports to bar faculty from testifying in a voting rights trial--is it legal?

November

What is philosophy and why should we do it?  Readings for high school students? (a discussion)

Why every department should have one or two faculty specializing in the post-Kantian Continental traditions in philosophy of the 19th- and 20th-centuries

Annals of unreliable data:  "student ratings" of philosophy PhD programs

What is "Critical Race Theory" and what does it have to do with "Critical Theory" (i.e., the Frankfurt School)

Why hasn't Murdoch's media empire destroyed Australia the way it has destroyed America? (a discussion)

Why are only one-third of academic philosophers women?

Open letter in support of philosophy at Bloomsburg University

When "reasonable" Republicans at the NYT tell you their party is going fascist, one should probably listen

The BPhil in philosophy at Oxford

December

"Forgive and forget" is not their approach when it comes to Spinoza (but the story has a happy ending)

JSD in General Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School

New Yorker article on "mind-reading" technology

"Why Omicron is scaring me" (a discussion)

So much for "artifical intelligence" (a discussion)