Law professor Steven Vladeck explains the constitutional and legal issues; a few excerpts:. In essence, the Trump administration is claiming the unilateral power to at least temporarily “impound” tens of billions of dollars of appropriated funds—in direct conflict with Congress’s constitutional power of the purse, and in even more flagrant violation of …

The monster child's first day with political power. Of all the stupid and venal things he did--declaring a fake "national emergency" at the Southern border, withdrawing from the Paris Climate accords, withdrawing from the World Health Organization--the most ominous was pardoning all those convicted for participation in the...

Dec 16, 2024 · Adolph Reed comments in the wake of the electoral disaster:. To the extent that the totality of politics, including among those who see themselves as the “left” or even advocates of a working-class agenda, has reduced to winning this election or preparing to win the next one, there’s no impetus to break with what passes for “sophisticated” political …

The "undecided" or "waivering" voters have no idea what's going on and do not understand cause and effect. Consider this from the latest NYT polls showing an essential tie in the key Northern battleground states:. The polling results fit a recurring theme with voters in battleground states: Many tend to believe that Mr. Trump’s time in office helped people like them, and they worry that Ms ...

Oct 17, 2023 · Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics.

Reader Scott Newstok called my attention to this very interesting LRB review essay of John Guillory's latest attempt to look at the history and organization of literary studies as a field. A brief excerpt: For Guillory, the pivotal development in the whole story was the arrival of ‘criticism’ as the dominant approach in the 1920s and 1930s, whether in the form of I.A. Richards’s ...

A soon-to-be PhD student writes: I am an incoming philosophy PhD student at a university in a major U.S. city. While I have been fortunate enough to receive funding and a stipend for the duration of my program, I find myself increasingly worried about getting by with rising inflation and costs of living — especially considering that the stipend is the same for all five years.

Oct 31, 2020 · News and views about philosophy—both the subject and the academic profession—as well as other aspects of university life and political culture, including academic freedom, neoliberalism, identity politics, and Marxism.

Oct 7, 2024 · Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics.

Dec 31, 2021 · This is alarming:. Student newspaper Honi Soit reported it had seen a leaked list of units and enrolment numbers which revealed that at least 252 of 748 (33.7 per cent) undergraduate units were at risk of being cut.. Among the vulnerable subjects were Hebrew, biblical and Jewish studies, visual arts and philosophy, it reported.