Politics

Dr. J Catches Up

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 0 Comments

It’s been too, too long since I’ve posted here. Two whole months, in fact. [Insert standard excuse about being too busy.] My absence was particularly egregious this time, since my last posts, back in September, left a few issues hanging. (Just as an aside, it’s hard for me to believe that the last time I…

Leiter v. Alcoff, Part One: The Basics

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 3 Comments

Now that things have quieted down a bit, and in response to readers who’ve been asking me to do this for a while, I’ve decided to offer a few reflections on the recent (and very public) kerfuffle between Brian Leiter and Linda Alcoff. I expect that most of you who aren’t professional philosophers don’t have…

Leiter v. Alcoff, Part Two: The Context (or, Why This Isn’t Simply A “He Said, She Said” Story)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 8 Comments

Okay, if you haven’t read Part One of this series, you should go back and do so. Otherwise, the following won’t make much sense. If you have read Part One, and if you don’t already have a dog in this fight, you may be wondering: what exactly is the big deal here? So what, two…

30 Day Song Challenge, Day 2: Your Least Favorite Song

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 0 Comments

Day 2 of the 30 Day Song Challenge asks for “your least favorite song” and I really thought this one was going to be harder to choose than it actually was. I mean, there are whole genres of music that I don’t like– speed metal, experimental jazz, anything Celtic, the endless musical masturbation of jam…

Kyle Ference Mans Up

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 6 Comments

The picture to the left is of a former student and advisee of mine, Kyle Ference (author of the Refudiating Through Life blog). During his time at Rhodes, Kyle was in many ways the very ideal of a liberal arts student. He was smart and hardworking, affable and well-liked, committed to socially-conscious extracurricular activities, a…

2011 State of the Union Address

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 0 Comments

Making of the 2011 State of the Union Address

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 1 Comment

Entre Nous?: The Merits (and Demerits) of Gossip

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 2 Comments

Let me begin by illuminating the obvious: we live in a gossip-obsessed culture. You don’t even have to make all that much of an effort to find yourself more intimately familiar with the very personal details of celebrities, politicians, athletes and other real(ity) pop-culture figures’ lives than you are with those of your own friends…

Tortured Reasoning

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 4 Comments

I haven’t posted much on human rights recently, the primary focus of my research, though I continue to plug away at thinking and writing about it every day. One of the topics that I spend a lot of time with is torture, an issue that I intend to use as the go-to “case study” in…

Democratic Political Playbook (Revised, 2010)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 4 Comments

It shouldn’t come as any surpise that the “Red Wave” did, as predicted, wash ashore in Washington, DC after polls closed on the 2010 midterm elections last Tuesday. Although Democrats managed to hang on to 51 Senate seats, they lost their “house” (a trauma all-too-familiar to many of their constituents). Republican, Tea Party and Independent…

Dr. J Catches Up

Leiter v. Alcoff, Part One: The Basics

Leiter v. Alcoff, Part Two: The Context (or, Why This Isn’t Simply A “He Said, She Said” Story)

30 Day Song Challenge, Day 2: Your Least Favorite Song

Kyle Ference Mans Up

2011 State of the Union Address

Making of the 2011 State of the Union Address

Entre Nous?: The Merits (and Demerits) of Gossip

Tortured Reasoning

Democratic Political Playbook (Revised, 2010)

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Archives

Categories

Meta