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Back in 2009, with discussion. (My original correspondent gave permission to be identified: he is philosopher Joshua Preiss, who directs the PPE program at Minnesota State University in Mankato.)
Back in 2010. This one came to pass: the Eastern APA no longer meets between Xmas and New Year, and it is no longer the locus of most initial job interviews, having been overtaken by Skype and then Zoom, as well as an increasing number of searches that move straight to campus visits based on the file.
Back in 2015, and it led to a "lively" discussion! The only point I'd make differently is that often administrators want their departments to offer the PhD (regardless of what the faculty want), even when the program would be more competitive as a terminal MA program (a point philosopher Douglas Portmore makes, correctly, in the comments).
A discussion back in 2017. My view is unchanged: it is pedagogical malparctice not to teach an author whose work is important to the subject because the author has engaged in personal or professional misconduct (other than scholarly fraud that implicates the work in question obviously).
Back in 2005. Although this incident probably helped shorten his tenure as Harvard President (there are no academic freedom rights to administrative appointments), it had no effect on his actual academic freedom, his tenured position at Harvard, and so on.
Back in 2019. Since Professor Stock was drummed out of the academy, there has been less bad behavior, although I'm sure the miscreants will rise to the occasion again should the opportunity arise. The only hopeful news is that some of those miscreants have departed the academy altogether in the interim.
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