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Month: May 2017

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How not to lose friends and alienate people when talking about women in philosophy

  • Posted on May 26, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A paper with a lot of interesting data about the representation of women in philosophy journals has just been published in Philosophical Studies. The authors used data from 25 top philosophy journals and found that, compared to their share of professional…

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  • Politics

More on the Trump/Russia witch hunt

  • Posted on May 25, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Some people have expressed frustration with my last post about the Russia/ Trump nonsense, on the ground that it’s not as detailed as usual. It’s true that it isn’t, but as I explained, that’s because I don’t have time. If…

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Links – 05/21/2017

  • Posted on May 21, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The Nation published a piece about the history of Modern Monetary Theory. I’m very skeptical about MMT, but I’ve been meaning to read some of the literature about it for some time now. If you know a good introduction, please share…

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  • Politics

The Russia/Trump nonsense has reached peak insanity

  • Posted on May 19, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

As you probably know, unless perhaps you have spent the last few days in a monastery, Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to lead the investigation into the alleged collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russian officials. This came after the…

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  • Health

Why the US health care expenditures are so high (it’s not what you think)

  • Posted on May 18, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I recently discovered this amazing post on Random Critical Analysis, which argues very convincingly that, despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the US doesn’t actually spend significantly more on health care than other developed countries once you take into…

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  • History

There is such a thing as progress after all

  • Posted on May 16, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I recently started Homage to Catalonia by Orwell, which somehow I had never read. It’s quite good so far and I just read this very amusing passage: One of the dreariest effects of this war has been to teach me that…

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  • Academia

On Tommy Curry

  • Posted on May 13, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A few days ago, Rod Dreher wrote a piece in The American Conservative about a 4 year old interview of Tommy Curry, a professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. (I would like to add that, although I’m going to criticize…

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  • Uncategorized

Links – 05/10/2017

  • Posted on May 10, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Several articles recently pointed out that the widespread view that many people who voted for Trump had “buyer remorse” wasn’t really backed up by any good evidence and could just be wishful thinking. This article in the Washington Post discusses…

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  • Politique

Réflexions sur la victoire de Macron

  • Posted on May 8, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Comme prévu, Macron a été élu dans un fauteuil, tandis que Le Pen s’est pris une rouste monumentale. D’après les résultats du Ministère de l’Intérieur, elle ne fait même pas 34%, alors que Macron fait légèrement plus de 66%. Elle…

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  • Politics

Marine Le Pen, Vichy and the Holocaust

  • Posted on May 5, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

For reasons I have already discussed, Le Pen is about to get trounced by Macron in the second round of the French presidential election (all the more so because she did a very poor campaign and was very bad during the debate), but…

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