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A conversation with Glenn Loury

  • Posted on November 14, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I have been really busy lately and didn’t have time to write for the blog, but readers might be interested in my conversation with Glenn Loury, who kindly invited me to talk about police violence on his podcast after he…

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The scourge of white supremacy does not even spare public services

  • Posted on October 12, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Justin Wolfers recently published a piece in the New York Times in which he describes the results of a study about discrimination by local public officials in the US. I was going to publish a post about gun control, but…

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A few things I published elsewhere on police brutality

  • Posted on October 6, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I don’t have time to write another post for the blog at the moment, though I have several of them in the works, but I wanted to let you know about a few things I published elsewhere. I already mentioned…

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Links – 09/04/2017

  • Posted on September 4, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A recent survey discussed by Eric Kaufmann here indicates that, in the West, whether one believes that it’s racist to want to restrict immigration in order to preserve one’s culture predicts whether one thinks immigration should be reduced. But I don’t…

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A politically incorrect guide to affirmative action

  • Posted on August 30, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

During the controversy about James Damore’s infamous memo, which I briefly discussed here, I read a lot of nonsense from a lot of people, who clearly don’t understand much about this debate. If you have been following the debate about…

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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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