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TPP Week-In-Review
- On Tuesday, Luke criticized Han’s post in defense of drone attacks in Pakistan from last Friday, and Charles differentiated between demand-side economics and supply-side economics before suggesting an alternative, middle-ground position
- On Wednesday, Han reviewed a piece in The National Review by Pascal Bruckner diagnosing Europe of a sort of ‘self-hatred’, and suggested national guilt might be a very good thing
- On Thursday, Charles evaluated the moral issues to be struggled with before deciding for or against the legalization of prostitution, and discussed arguments in a debate at the Economist on that subject, and Jake shared arguments
for a number of interesting but ‘dangerous’ ideas like abolishing primary elections, infant euthanasia, moral eugenics, fat tax, and feminist polygamy
In Others’ Words
- Rust Belt Philosophy had another installment of its ‘Good idea, bad idea’ post series – this time on sexual ethics
- Monterey Bay Forum claimed ‘Islam is a political philosophy’ which unduly makes non-Muslims second-class citizens
- Janet Daley wrote for the Telegraph that the Labour Party has been corrupted, and called for some fresh thinking
- The Glenn Beck Review discussed the eponymous talk show host’s admission that he does not know much about President Obama’s faith
- William Barth at Al Gore Videos argued that the Republican party is in danger of marginalization, and gave the party some advice
- Edgar at Florida Student Philosophy Blog argued that libertarians should endorse social minimum policies, or welfare programs
- Jeff Riggenbach wrote for Prison Planet on Stanley Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments in the 70’s in response to an old question: why do people obey the commands of the government?
- Philosophy In A Time Of Error commented on Stuart Elden’s all-time ranking of philosophers
- Michael Cohen at Democracy Arsenal lambasted General David Petraeus for being ‘out of line’ on the recent Koran-burning issue
- Liberarian Tibor Machan discussed the validity of believing we have a distinct human nature and set of natural rights for Right Side News
- An article at AntiWar tried to explain an alleged renewal in conservative attacks against Islam in the US
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