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In 1989, Leiter made a list of what he believed to be the top 25 graduate philosophy programs in the United States. Called the Philosophical Gourmet Report, these lists came to be known as "the Leiter Report" and have been widely circulated since the early 1990s by philosophy departments as well as individuals. Published by Wiley-Blackwell, they are an influential and controversial ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world. He has also produced a ranking of U.S. law schools, and was hired by Maclean's magazine in Canada to produce a ranking of Canadian law schools. In addition to compiling academic rankings, Leiter blogs under the title, "Leiter Reports" on philosophy and academic rankings. Freelance journalist Mark Oppenheimer wrote in The Boston Globe in 2008 that as a result of Leiter's lists, "it's safe to say that Leiter...is the most powerful man in academic philosophy."
Leiter's philosophy blog includes both professional news and polemics, for example, critiques of proponents of intelligent design, the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush's economic and social policies, and various conservative figures. He has also written scathing critiques of journalists and philosophers, including Carlin Romano,Thomas Nagel, Leon Wieseltier, and Paul Campos.
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