Best of the summer blog, 2022

As blog readership returns to normal levels, I thought I'd compile some links to highlights from the blog this past summer (June-August) for those who may have missed them:

June

The new "cadre" of putative experts on "academic freedom" who are, in reality, its enemy

"Identity politics" neoliberalism meets millenial narcissism

A comment on the current pathology of the U.S. legal system

Bad journal practices:  the case of rejection without reasons after R&R

Inflation and graduate-student stipends

July

A poll about Covid (and who has had it)

Travels abroad, and some observations about philosophy

More signs of the times:  actual left policy analyst leaves Center for American Progress for AEI

Reed on Black Lives Matter

August

In Memoriam:  John M. Cooper (1939-2022)

Korsgaard's Dewey Lecture

Have things really changed in philosophy since the 1990s when it comes to publication pressure and narrowness of specialization

Best "general" journals of philosophy, 2022

When the University of Sydney philosophy department split apart for "political" reasons

Philosopher's Annual, 2021

In Memoriam:  Larry Laudan (1941-2022)

"Five Questions" with philosopher and clinical therapist Hanna Pickard