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“Truth and Evidence” American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy Annual Meeting
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (publishers of annual NOMOS volumes)
Co-Chairs: Melissa Schwartzberg, Pol Sci, NYU (NOMOS editor); Philip Kitcher, Philosophy, Columbia (volume co-editor); Stephen Macedo, ASPLP...
Jason Stanley
Very much looking forward to the NOMOS conference on Princeton in a week, where I will be replying to a terrific paper by @KimFerzan
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How Fascism Works
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Professor Stanley will speak to his latest book, How...
Keynote Address, on the occasion of Central European University moving to Vienna | Office of the President | The University of Chicago
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Jason Stanley
I think it is problematic to push one's paranoid theories about leftists in universities in a keynote speech to a university thrown out of a country because of those very theories
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With New Investigation at Duke and U.N.C., Feds Hunt Anti-Israel Bias in Higher Education
The Education Department is investigating a Middle East studies program run by Duke University and the University of North Carolina, citing, among other issues, how Judaism is discussed in the curriculum.
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Jason Stanley
THE classic concern about free speech is that governments shut down speech about a politically important issue. And here it is - the most serious attack on free speech In my lifetime. What will organizations like @TheFIREorg do?
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Trump administration says UNC, Duke programs portray Islam too positively
The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.
South Dakota Leads Nation on Jail Admissions, New Report Finds
Nearly half of all arrests in South Dakota are drug or alcohol related, compared to just 29 percent nationally.
The Electoral College Really Does Give Republicans a Massive Advantage in Close Elections, a New Paper Finds
The convincing study shows that 2000 and 2016 were not just flukes.
The Future of Political Philosophy
For five decades Anglophone political philosophy has been dominated by the liberal egalitarianism of John Rawls. With liberalism in crisis, have these ideas outlived their time?
Ideology is Dead! Long Live Ideology!
Economists like to say they’re immune from ideological influence. Our research shows the opposite.
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Jason Stanley
Economists have strongest tendency towards ideological bias, according to this interesting study (unsurprising of course).
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The Untold Story: Joe Biden Pushed Ronald Reagan to Ramp Up Incarceration — Not the Other Way Around
Biden has argued that the focus on his 1994 crime bill as a driver of mass incarceration is misplaced. He's right — it was his earlier push that was responsible.
Jason Stanley
If Biden is the Democratic nominee, Trump will use the First Step Act to argue that he is the criminal justice reformer, and Biden is the “more mass incarceration” candidate
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MO-Sen: Ivy League Educated Josh Hawley (R) Blames Higher Education For "Leftist Ideology"
This guy is such a hypocritical asshole :
In his standard stump speech as a candidate for U.S. Senate, Attorney General Josh Hawley has repeatedly bashed the value of a university degree, accusing ...
Views of Higher Education Divided by Party
Americans see value in higher education whether they graduated from college or not. Even so, there is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction – even suspicion – among the public about the role colleges play in society.
Jason Stanley
The recent divide on attitudes to universities, because of the well-funded attack on them, has become of the larger partisan divides in the United States. In short: since 2015 it has become a partisan political issue.
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Jason Stanley
Here is an English translation of my interview, Orban is One of the World's Woes, with Klub Radio of Budapest (the last independent radio station in Hungary).
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Amerikai filozófus: Orbán egyike a világ bajainak
Ahhoz képest, hogy nem akart Jason Stanley filozófus, a Yale Egyetem professzora Orbán Viktorról beszélni, sokszor ki kellett rá térnie a világpolitika meghatározó jelenségeit elemezve. A filozófus szerint ő az újkori etnonacionalizmus egyik...
Jason Stanley
“Orban is one of the World’s Woes” - please read (or translate) the transcript for my interview with Klub Radio, the last independent radio station in Hungary
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Colloquium - Fall 2019
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Established in 1961, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) is devoted primarily to doctoral studies and awards most of CUNY's doctoral degrees. An internationally...
Jason Stanley
New York City Philosophy friends: On Wednesday at 5:45 I will be giving the CUNY grad center philosophy colloquium, presenting material from my book in progress w David Beaver, which reformulates the foundation of semantics to handle political rhetoric.
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Nobel Prize Laureates call on Gates Foundation to rescind Modi’s award
Letter from Nobel Laureates to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The philosopher’s tone
'There is no official ranking of philosophy journals... but there is an informal consensus about which are the best: Mind, The Philosophical Review, Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Nous ... would be on most philosophers’ lists.'
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Jason Stanley
Great piece by @timcrane102 on the crisis of peer review in philosophy. Another problem: a few dutiful reviewers dedicated to advancing their small subfield can create a dike in the process, jamming the journals with papers in that area.
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25th Anniversary of the 1994 Crime Bill
September 13th marks the 25th anniversary of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, often referred to the 1994 Crime Bill. It was one of the most far-reaching crime bills ever passed by Congress, with widespread implications. But...
China: Halt the Execution of Renowned Scholar Tashpolat Tiyip
Dr. Tashpolat Tiyip, a renowned scholar of geography and former president of Xinjiang University (XJU), is suspected to be at risk of execution as he nears the end of the two-year reprieve of his death sentence. SAR has issued the below letter to...