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A reply to Brian Leiter and other critics

  • Posted on September 20, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Brian Leiter, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, wrote a response to my response to Green’s idiotic post on conservatives in academia. Some of the points he makes echoes what other people have said on Daily Nous, where…

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It’s not hard for conservatives to be on campus because they’re stupid, it’s hard because you are

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

Leslie Green, professor of philosophy at Oxford, recently published a post on his blog called “Why it is hard to be a campus conservative”. I said elsewhere that I have rarely come across anything that was both condescending and stupid to…

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  • Sociology

The reality of police violence in the US

  • Posted on September 15, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I wrote a post a few months ago that generated a lot of controversy and was heavily criticized. I wrote it after the officer who killed Philando Castile was acquitted, which prompted everyone to lament the so-called epidemic of unarmed…

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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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  • Books

The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas

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

I mentioned Orwell’s famous book on the Spanish Civil War, which I had never read until recently, a few weeks ago. It’s a great book, but it’s not a history book. If you are only going to read one book…

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  • Economics

The debate about health care shows why viewpoint diversity is important

  • Posted on June 23, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

As you know, McConnell finally unveiled the Republican health care bill in Senate, which was immediately described as genocide by liberals. (I say that in jest, but I have no doubt that some people will actually say that, if they…

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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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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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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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Links – 02/12/2017

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

Under the leadership of a superintendent who took seriously the disparate impact doctrine, which assumes that any policy that disproportionately affects some groups is thereby discriminatory, the public schools in St. Paul, Minnesota changed their disciplinary procedures so as to…

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