Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

Blast from the past: Clark Glymour's "brief" for Carnegie-Mellon

Back in 2011.

Blast from the past: The report on Ward Churchill's "research misconduct"

Back in 2007.   Along with the Salaita case, this ranks as one of the most outrageous attacks on academic freedom and tenure in the last twenty years.

Blast from the past: Inflated letters of recommendation

Back in 2011, with many comments.  Still a problem.

Blast from the past: Gottlieb on Romano

Back in 2012.

Blast from the past: "Jewish poker" philosophy

Back in 2010 (although the genre is still around).

Blast from the past: Fodor vs. Dennett on "adaptationism"

Back in 2007.

Blast from the past: Karl Kraus's favorite journalist, Thomas "no ideas and the ability to express them" Friedman

Back in 2008.  (I was amused to see that piece was sent to me by Sarah Jeong, who now works for the NYT!)

UPDATE:   More scathingly funny criticism of Friedman (back in 2014) (thanks to Nathan Ballantyne for the pointer).

Blast from the past: when "trigger warnings" were a "thing"

Back in 2016.  (And here and here.)

Blast from the past: why Osama bin Laden supported George W. Bush's re-election

Back in 2004.

UPDATE:  Reader Mike G. kindly points out that the 2004 link to bin Laden's statement is broken, but one can still find it here.

Blast from the past: Is a smoking habit a liability on the job market?

Back in 2008.

Blast from the past: the most-cited books in post-WWII Anglophone philosophy

Back in 2009.

Blast from the past: Putnam on Quine's radicalism

Back in 2014.

Blast from the past: expanding notions of "harm" in psychology

Back in 2015.

Blast from the past: the Derrida Industry

Way back in 2004.

Blast from the past: what kind of background needed for graduate work in philosophy of physics?

Back in 2009.

Blast from the past: "Religion is like a penis"

Back in 2014.

Blast from the past: the "slave revolt" in philosophy

Back in 2016, but it continues apace.

Blast from the past: the one thing Rorty got right!

Alas.

Blast from the past: "Contempt," Trump and "Midwestern...moral instincts"

In praise of diversity!

Blast from the past: the Analytic/Continental distinction

I discussed it with Nigel Warburton back in 2011.

Blast from the past: the Ludlow case and the Kipnis book

2 1/2 years ago, but worth remembering.

Blast from the past: Wise words from Evgeny Morozov

Back in 2015.  If only more would listen...

Blast from the past: Linda Alcoff and the "Climate for Women" fraud

Still amazing after all these years.

Blast from the past: Kathleen Stock called out Nathan Oseroff for his bad behavior one year ago

Time flies....

Blast from the past: a classic metablog moment

It seems so long ago now.

15 years ago today, on this blog...

...the smear campaign on John Kerry's war service.

Blast from the past: on defending the powerless and vulnerable, and giving them a voice

Back in 2018.

Blast from the past: when the Associate Editors of Hypatia defamed Rebecca Tuvel

Back in 2017. 

Blast from the past: speaker controversies at the Society for Christian Philosophers and the Society for Analytical Feminism

Both back in 2016.   Philosophy hasn't gotten much saner since!

Blast from the past: when the police arrested Henry Louis Gates, Jr....

...ten years ago.

Blast from the past: Reed on race as a "taxonomy of ascriptive difference"

I do wish people would read this and think about it before making claims about philosophy being a canon of "dead white men."  It isn't.

Blast from the past: the argument from vomit

I suspect many people are now having this reaction, although for different reasons than Searle did.

Blast from the past: "Me Studies" and philosophy's problems

Back in 2015, but still all-too-relevant.

Blast from the past: by what time on April 15 must students accept admissions offers?

We discussed it back in 2017.

Blast from the past: Schopenhauer on anonymity

Back in 2005.  Schopenhauer is obviously correct:  "For a man to wrap himself up and draw his hat over his face, and then fall upon people who are walking about without any disguise—this is not the part of a gentleman, it is the part of a scoundrel and a knave." 

Blast from the past: Most-cited Anglophone philosophy books published since WWII...

...back in 2017.

Blast from the past: On New York bluntness

Two years ago.

Blast from the past: APA adopts new policy on religious instiutions that discrimnate against gay men and women

Way back in 2009!

Blast from the past: Errol Morris on Kripke and Kuhn

Back in 2011 (follow the link to get to the original discussion thread).

Blast from the past: advice for prospective graduate students about visiting departments

Back in 2014, but still quite relevant of course.

Blast from the past: the humanities in an increasingly "commercialized" culture and university

Almost a decade ago, and still relevant needless to say.

Blast from the past: The inflation of bullying

As true today as then.

Blast from the past: Hume's personal ad

Back in 2003.

Blast from the past: Nietzsche's personal ad

Here.

Blast from the past: Kant's personal ad

Here.

Blast from the past: Indexicals, children, and Kant

Back in 2004.

Blast from the past: on criticizing students, why is academic law so different than academic philosophy?

Back in 2015.

Blast from the past: the defamation of Rebecca Tuvel

Less than two years ago.  A shameful but revealing moment about a segment of the profession, the same segment that is now on a crusade to shut down feminist philosophers, scholars and activists who raise questions about the gender self-ID law.

Blast from the past: Malcolm Gladwell exposed

Back in 2012.

Blast from the past: Olberding on Tuvel

Never forget.