Mark Oppenheimer on the World Wide Web

Today in the Boston Globe Ideas section, for which I will now be writing every month, I have an article about Brian Leiter, a University of Texas (soon to be University of Chicago) law and philosophy scholar whose rankings of philosophy graduate programs have become highly influential and rather controversial. By all accounts, the vast majority of students applying to philosophy grad school now consult “Philosophical Gourmet,” as the rankings’ website is called. Leiter also has quite a reputation as a blogger and willing antagonist of those with whom he disagrees, which I also discuss in my piece.