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“Vegetarian Mafia” Moves Into Law

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Brian Leiter’s inability to contain his desire to rank everything in existence has found a new front: attitudes of law professors towards veganism! As with all his polls, I strongly advise not participating as it lends legitimacy to his silly enterprise. Worth looking at, however. What is interesting about this particular “poll” is that with [...]

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Campus Watch

Monday, August 3, 2009

In a first for me, my last post was picked up by the notorious Campus Watch. (And, by “picked up,” I mean copy-and-pasted on their site – not sure how I feel about that.) Given that the post was not about “Middle Eastern Studies” in any way, I’m not sure why they did so. Fortunately, [...]

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A bit more

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Lest I gave the impression in my previous post that I think that the work being conducted in philosophy departments, I should point out that I have found much rewarding work that is called “philosophy” (even if I doubt its status as such). The failures of these works point to this importance difference between the [...]

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Vulgar pseudo-Hegelians

Saturday, March 7, 2009

(I started writing this a few days ago after that fiasco of a discussion at Crooked Timber, but then opted against it – what is there to be said that hasn’t already been said… and ignored or dismissed? A recent “poll” on a philosophy gatekeeping website on the biggest embarrassment to the discipline changed my [...]

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Eastern Promises

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Two general rules: (1) I rarely write about movies here and (2) David Cronenberg movies tend to be overrated, pretentious pieces of shit. I’m breaking the first rule, but the second rule stands: Eastern Promises is largely a giant, heaping piece of steaming poo. The only saving grace for the movie is Aragorn/Viggo Mortensen, who [...]

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Question

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Why is it that a significant proportion of professional philosophers with blogs are giant jackasses? I won’t name names, but three individuals – incidentally, all men – come to mind.

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Oops!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Meaning to delete two spam comments, I also deleted 23 real comments. Sorry.

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Brainstormed

Monday, April 21, 2008

Is it just me, or have Mark Bauerlein’s posts at Brainstorm in recent weeks pushed him from his adopted position as the “reasonable conservative in the radical academy” to just plain nutbar? Don’t get me wrong: Crash was a terrible movie – I agree with him there. But just because a movie is a sanctimonious [...]

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Boneheads

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Bone-headed.

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