TPP Weekly Rewind
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TPP Week-In-Review
- On Monday, Sam criticized Democratic politicians’ campaign strategy of hiding their party affiliation as dangerous to our democratic system, and Charles discussed the duty to defend something you believe to be morally wrong because it is the law of the land in light of a recent California ruling against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
- On Tuesday, Charles examined the state of education in the US and entertained the suggestion that elitism is the largest roadblock to educational reform, and Luke defended General David Petraeus’ denouncement of a Florida church’s plan to burn copies of the Koran
- On Wednesday, Han condemned the news media’s obsession over Rev. Terry Jones, the Florida minister who planned to burn the Koran, as unfortunate and harmful ‘voyeurism’, and guest poster Ryan Berg analyzed arguments for the ‘childfree’ movement, which discourages parenting, before suggesting some valid criticisms
- On Thursday, Charles asked whether it is appropriate to appropriate for countries like France
to use heavy-handed law to force secularization in the name of cultural assimilation, and suggested that such secularization attempts violate basic rights to religious expression
In Others’ Words
- Practical Ethics wondered whether the UK’s HPV vaccination program is unethical
- A Kentucky man sued Plato
- Gordon Marion at The New York Times’ The Stone connection boxing and philosophy
- Taiwan News reported on a Vietnam publisher’s struggles to publish some Western political classics
- Grateful To The Dead argued CS Lewis was “medieval in the very warp and woof of his thought“
- Power Line presented an interview with Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield
- Sinistre and Destre’s Noumenal Realm offered three interesting reflections on Friedrich Nietzsche
- David Gordon at Lew Rockwell wrote on Harvard Professor Harvard Sandel’s discussion the three main competing views of justice
- Just Above Sunset criticized conservatism qua nostalgia
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