No one else compares. Consider what the monster child has done in just six months: Trump pardoned all the stormtrooper rioters of January 6, 2021, including many who had assaulted law enforcement.

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Duke Medicine is, by all metrics, a major biomedical research center, so this is a quite dramatic move, coming at a time when, of course, NIH grants are much harder to get due to the Trumpistas. If ...

Because of the megaphone of the Trumpistas, aided and abetted by the mass media, it is easy to forget how much falsehood is being forced upon us on a daily basis, some of which is then taken up by the ...

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This is a useful summary of the "deal,"which includes some of the earlier demands (such as violating the academic freedom rights of certain programs to design their programs and hire faculty without ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JULY 3, UPDATED With almost 550 votes in our earlier poll, here are the results: 1. Philosophical Review (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices) 2. Journal of ...

FIRE organized a debate between myself and Prof Brian Soucek (UC Davis) on this topic. Here is a recording, for those interested: I found it constructive and illuminating; it made clear that a key ...

So with not quite 1,000 participants, and nearly 90,000 votes on comparisons cast, here are the top 25 (the score in parentheses reflects the odds of the journal prevailing in a comparison): 1.

Despite being a rather specialized topic, the poll attracted over 320 votes. Since there were fewer choices here (even with write-ins, only about 40), I'm going to list only the top ten by way of ...

UPDATE: Originally posted March 23, 2005. ==================== This essay, my contribution to The Future for Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), is now available for free download here. This ...