Jan 10, 2010 · Law professor Steven Vladeck explains the constitutional and legal issues; a few excerpts:. In essence, the Trump administration is claiming the unilateral power to at least temporarily “impound” tens of billions of dollars of appropriated funds—in direct conflict with Congress’s constitutional power of the purse, and in even more flagrant violation of the Impoundment Control Act of ...

The monster child's first day with political power. Of all the stupid and venal things he did--declaring a fake "national emergency" at the Southern border, withdrawing from the Paris Climate accords, withdrawing from the World Health Organization--the most ominous was pardoning all those convicted for participation in the...

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The "undecided" or "waivering" voters have no idea what's going on and do not understand cause and effect. Consider this from the latest NYT polls showing an essential tie in the key Northern battleground states:. The polling results fit a recurring theme with voters in battleground states: Many tend to believe that Mr. Trump’s time in office helped people like them, and they worry that Ms ...

Jan 16, 2025 · MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 27 October Einstein vs. Bergson on the nature of time Department of Education's OCR creates massive exception for faculty's contractual right to academic freedom Do your undergraduates have trouble reading whole books? (with extensive, and...

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Reader Scott Newstok called my attention to this very interesting LRB review essay of John Guillory's latest attempt to look at the history and organization of literary studies as a field. A brief excerpt: For Guillory, the pivotal development in the whole story was the arrival of ‘criticism’ as the dominant approach in the 1920s and 1930s, whether in the form of I.A. Richards’s ...

A soon-to-be PhD student writes: I am an incoming philosophy PhD student at a university in a major U.S. city. While I have been fortunate enough to receive funding and a stipend for the duration of my program, I find myself increasingly worried about getting by with rising inflation and costs of living — especially considering that the stipend is the same for all five years.

Jan 23, 2025 · Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in Canada.. The situation in the U.S., where many (but certainly not all) of the top programs are private (all are public in Canada), is more complex. In 2023-24, Princeton and Yale were offering stipends of $50,000, Chicago was offering $45,000, Berkeley was offering $40,000, and NYU was ...