Updated below Most LGM readers are familiar with Leiter's history of cyber-harassment and sock puppetry, so it should come as no surprise that lots of people in the world of academic philosophy are fed up* with his increasingly bizarre bullying. *The statement of support for...
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To what degree, if at all, should student evaluations and/or complaints be taken into account for the purposes of tenure or post-tenure review? What about judgments regarding a faculty member's.
Updated below. Updated again below. Back story can be found here, here and here. (1) On the evening of February 28th, 2013 Prof. Brian Leiter of the University of Chicago.
Updated below This is the third in a series of posts about the increasingly bizarre and disturbing behavior of Prof. Brian Leiter of the University of Chicago Law School. (Earlier entries can be found here and here.) So if the subject doesn’t interest you I...
This is the first in a series of posts. Others in the series can be found here and here. Updated below A distinguished lawyer asks: Brian Leiter, aka the Director.
In one of her many appalling acts as Secretary of Education, Betsy Devos refused to forgive debt for students swindled by for-profit colleges. Game recognize game, after all. The Biden.
As I've mentioned before, I certainly hope the mental health services at the University of Chicago are first rate: When Sally Haslanger, a prominent feminist philosophy professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returned to her Cambridge office in August after a summer abroad, she...
The Michael LaCour affair reminds me that I know of several flat-out crazy and/or evil people who have managed to make it big in the academic world. Or maybe this.
Updated below Denialism, by which I mean the denial or unwarranted minimization of a disturbing reality, usually comes in several forms. For example, Holocaust denialism covers a spectrum of arguments,.
2014 was an interesting year for LGM, with the celebration of our tenth anniversary, and the (at this point wildly popular) introduction of comment registration. Here are our ten top posts of the last year, in terms of traffic: Christ, I Hate Blackboard (Noon) Brian Leiter's...
Michael Dorf, in his follow-up post on the University of Illinois's violation of academic freedom: As Brian Leiter notes, there is a move afoot to boycott the University of Illinois.
Scott has already pointed out that Lisa McElroy seems to be arguing for the vigorous application of the doctrine of caveat emptor to transactions between prospective law students and law.