Tag: authoritarianism
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Authoritarianism & Philosophy: After Orbán’s Ouster, an Effort to Reopen the Lukács Archive
“Philosophers were the first targets of Orbán’s ‘culture war.’”
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Russia’s Political Persecution of a Philosopher: Further Details (guest post)
Earlier this week, it was reported that Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats was placed under house arrest and the offices and homes of several other…
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Russian Government Investigating Institute of Philosophy
Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats is under house arrest and the offices and homes of several other employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the…
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Judge Orders Texas State to Reinstate Robinson
A federal court judge ruled today that Texas State University must reinstate philosopher Idris Robinson, whom the university fired from his assistant professorship over…
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Letter Supporting Fired Texas State Philosophy Professor and Boycott of University
Last month it was reported that Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for…
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Peterson from Texas A&M to SMU
Martin Peterson, currently professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Southern Methodist University (SMU).
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Trial Starts Today for Philosophy Lecturer Who Tossed Away Tear Gas Canister Thrown by ICE (updated)
The trial of Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, begins today. The trial concerns his actions at a protest…
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Texas State Fires Philosophy Professor Over Off-Campus Talk on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict
Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they…
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Anthropic’s Statement on the Department of War’s Demands
Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of War, earlier this week ordered Anthropic, the company that makes Claude artificial intelligence products, to allow the Department…
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Florida Implements Stronger Thought Policing
With measures borrowed from history’s totalitarian regimes, political leaders in Florida are taking unprecedented steps to indoctrinate students and prevent them from learning about…
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Lessons from a Legal Analysis of the Renee Good Shooting (updated)
What’s one thing that could make ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s lethal shooting of innocent US citizen Renee Good even worse? If it were legally…
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Texas A&M Administrators Will Cancel Your Course If You Don’t Tell Them Exactly Where And What Its Race And Gender Parts Are*
Texas A&M University (TAMU) administrators cancelled “Ethics in Public Policy,” a graduate course in the university’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, because…
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Legalize Plato: The Shirt
In light of Texas A&M’s decision to tell a philosophy professor to remove readings by Plato from his course, one enterprising philosopher has come…
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Texas Tech Chancellor Opposes Freedom, Endorses Inefficiency
Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton, in a memo yesterday to the presidents of the universities in the system, announced a policy to…
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The Charade of Banning “Advocacy”
“Leaders at these institutions want to ban only certain topics from discussion. To do so, they have issued vague directives that no one knows…
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Will There Be Midterm Elections?
According to a site that aggregates data from several betting markets, bettors think there’s a 63.9% chance that the Democratic Party will regain control…
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Columbia Philosophy Major Again Faces Deportation Threat
Last April, Mohsen Mahdawi, then a philosophy major at Columbia University, was attending a US citizenship application interview in Vermont when Immigration and Customs…
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Philosophers at Clemson Defend the Academic Freedom of Colleagues
Two philosophers at Clemson University, each in their own way, have responded to their employer’s punishment of faculty for their comments following the murder…
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Speech under Authoritarianism (updated)
Governments in the United States are ramping up their attacks on freedom of speech, with state and federal officials getting people—including professors—fired or investigated…
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Philosophy Grad Student from China Deported upon Arrival in US (updated)
A 22-year-old student from China who had traveled from China to Texas to study philosophy at the University of Houston was detained upon arrival…