Tag: politics
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Harvard Sues Trump Administration
Today, Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the billions of dollars in funding it has cut and threatened to cut…
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Trump’s Attacks on Universities, A Continuing Series (updates)
Trump administration officials yesterday revealed that the president has ordered that $1 billion of federal funding for Cornell University and $790 million of federal…
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APA Signs Onto Statement Defending the Dept. of Education
The Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association (APA) has added the organization to a list of signatories of a statement opposing the…
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Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley, currently professor of philosophy at Yale University, will be moving to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the…
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Columbia, Trump, and the Peril of Appeasement
On March 13th, the Trump administration sent Columbia University a list of demands it must meet as a precondition for restoring $400 million in…
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While Tables Burn: On the (Non) Existence of Trans People and the Failure of Philosophy (guest post)
“There are indeed consequences when we punch down or pretend that what is, in fact, a hostile attack, is merely ‘inquiry for inquiry’s sake.’…
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The Future of the Department of Education
Elon Musk—a businessman apparently being allowed by President Trump to tread upon whatever and whomever he pleases in his capacity as head budget-slasher-of-questionable-Constitutionality of…
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Trump Halts All Federal Grants (update: OMB Rescinds Order)
“To the extent permissible under applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance……
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Scholars Protest Flawed Evaluation of Polish Institute of Philosophy and Sociology
Scholars are objecting to a decision by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education to let stand what they’re calling a “flawed and…
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Political Philosophy’s “Obsolescence” In a World of Trump, etc.
“I strongly suspect that much of political philosophy and political theory and not a little bit of ‘applied,’ policy-salient ethics of the last three…
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What I Said to My Students about the Election
There’s been a lot of discussion on social media today among professors about what they should say to their students about the election.
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Patriotism, etc.
In light of Donald Trump’s election victory, there are both substantive and strategic reasons to take up questions about what patriotism is and what…
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Protests & Universities
“A university is special to the extent that it is a place where teaching and learning replace fighting and grandstanding.”
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A Journal’s Different Standards for White Male Authors* (updated)
Suppose you’re the editor-in-chief of an academic philosophy journal that employs double-anonymized peer review. The reports on a manuscript are in, and you’re deciding…
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Israel & Hamas: Another Letter, Another Critical Response (updated)
As mentioned in an update to this post, a group of philosophers posted an open letter, dated November 1, 2023, under the heading “Philosophy…
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House May Vote To Eliminate All NEH and NEA Funding
Representative Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, has proposed two amendments to the House Interior Appropriations bill (H.R. 4821) that would eliminate all funding…
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Israel, Hamas, and the Narratives of Atrocity (guest post)
“The need to stop the narratives that rationalize what is indefensible is clear. How to stop such narratives is not.”