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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.
Back in 2011. A reader kindly called this to my attention as a poem he particularly liked. My father was 78 when he wrote that poem, and will turn 86 next week.
Four years ago. One salutary development in the interim--perhaps due to the public outrage in 2017 over the abuse of Rebecca Tuvel by the usual suspects--is increasingly visible and vocal resistance to the "bloodthirsty mob of wacko philosophy profs" by other members of the profession.
Back in 2014, but, remarkably, some people continue to produce similarly misleading "information." Why are some people so indifferent to the well-being of undergraduate students? (And see this and this.)
Back in 2005, but as relevant today. I've discovered there's nothing that upsets the twitterabble more than the prospect that one of their abusive kin is about to be exposed.
Back in 2009; the top ten: Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Mill, Quine, Hegel, Kripke, Nietzsche, Marx, Kierkegaard. The ordinal listing aside, a plausible "top ten."
Since the "blowhard and buffoon" Alan Dershowitz (I here quote one of my liberal, Jewish, very pro-Israel law colleagues!) is back in the news because of his shilling for Trump--the explanation is transparent, since Dershowitz has only one criterion for any position he takes (namely, is it good for Likud)--it's worth recalling that Dershowitz has been a resolute opponent of academic freedom and freedom of expression, most notoriously in the tenure case of Norman Finkelstein at DePaul.
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