Some more highlights from the summer, for those who may have missed them: A serious blow for faculty speech in the 4th Circuit in the U.S. In Memoriam: Harry G. Frankfurt (1929-2023) Philosophers and political theorists elected as Fellows and…

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How do people feel about peer review? Does it really help? Has it made papers better in authors’ experience? There is an overwhelming amount of commentary about how peer review is no longer in any sense the guarantee of quality that it is often assumed to be. The publishers have not wanted…

…at the London Review of Books. A side of Austin most won’t have known! (Thanks to Christopher Morris and David Zimmerman for pointers.)

Now that my summer blogging quasi-hiatus is ending (see here for the new schedule), here are some summer highlights, for those who may have missed them, starting with June:
In Memoriam:  Henry E. Allison (1937-2023)
In Memoriam:  Richard W. Miller (1945-2023)
Williamson to continue teaching at Oxford through 2026
The Supreme Court’s affirmative action

From an Israeli newspaper. (Earlier coverage: here and here.) (Thanks to David Livingstone Smith for the pointer.)