new Francs and Beans -- 1975 parody article by Russell Baker

Tips for the Top: How to Be an Academic Philosopher

Fake Latin -- a small variety of jokes and hoaxes.

Causes of Death of Philosophers -- alphabetical and hilariously comprehensive

The Lighter Report -- parody of Brian Leiter's controversial "Philosophical Gourmet Report" guide to graduate programs in philosophy.

New Element Discovery: Administratium

Latin, On The Ad Hoc Use Of -- How Sentences, That Were A Priori Fine, Can Be Classically Garbled

Angst comes to Tora Bora, Afghanistan

Love is a Fallacy -- by Max Shulman

Why God didn't get his Ph.D.

The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook

Can Bad Men Make Good Brains Do Bad Things? (runaway trolley problem revisited)

The Postmodernism Generator (a new random essay with every click)

Horoscopes for Philosophy Grad Students

Introductory Philosophy Quiz - credit to Paul Frederic Magnus

The Academic Food Chain

A.E. Housman's Fragment of a Greek Tragedy

Thomas Hardy's Ode to Liddell and Scott

The Very Model of a Major Modern Classicist - credit to Susann S. Lusnia

The Very Model of a Humanist-Historian

Hunter College: When You Absolutely, Positively, Have to Kinda Go to College -- NY Press article by Ned Vizzini
 
 

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