The Wall Street Journal published a long piece arguing that rural America has become the new inner city. The article doesn’t really talk about politics, but the political implications, especially with respect to the rise of Trump, are pretty obvious.…
As you know, the cop who shot to death Philando Castile last summer was acquitted, which generated a lot of outrage. I don’t know enough about the detail of the death of Philando Castile to know whether the verdict in…
Francisco Vergara a écrit une tribune dans Le Monde il y a quelques années qui explique pourquoi, lorsqu’on parle de la « part » des dépenses publiques dans le PIB, on encourage une confusion. Il fait aussi quelques remarques intéressantes sur les problèmes que…
You have no doubt heard that, not content with interfering in the US presidential election, the Russians have also tried to undermine democracy in Europe. In particular, Moscow has been accused of trying to interfere in the upcoming German election,…
After years of saying I wouldn’t do it, I have finally created a Twitter account, which means that I’m officially cool now. At first, I will just share my blog posts, but when I have some time I plan to…
Just so you know, I have been able to get the data from the CIRP Freshman Survey, which means that I didn’t have to rely on what the Higher Education Research Institute publishes anymore. It’s a good thing because, in…
Nicholas Wades of the New York Times discusses research about the Y chromosome which suggests that some of the differences between males and females could originate from the role played by regulative genes on the X and Y chromosomes. The Boston Review…
After Brian Leiter shared my post about women in philosophy, which resulted in a lot of traffic, my blog was hacked and made inaccessible by some asshole. Of course, it could be a coincidence, but I find it hard to believe…
In my last post, I offered a brief commentary on a recent paper about the representation of women in philosophy journals, but I now want to discuss a bit more thoroughly the underlying issue of the underrepresentation of women in…
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…