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	<title>The Public Philosopher &#187; Jake</title>
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		<title>Are firemen like doctors?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/20/are-firefighters-like-doctors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How deep does the analogy go?  Not deep enough to justify universal health care. At the Washington Post blog, Ezra Klein discusses the parallel between firefighters letting someone’s house burn because he didn’t pay $75 for fire insurance—which happened a few weeks ago in a rural area of Tennessee that doesn’t guarantee fire protection—and letting [...]


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		<title>How to buy an election</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/13/how-to-buy-an-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean that it&#8217;s possible? With the November elections looming, campaign donations are heating up. Sharron Angle, Republican Senatorial candidate for Nevada, received $14 million in the last quarter alone, to give one example.  The topic of money in politics always raises the worry that a politician will “buy an election,” or that [...]


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		<title>Privatizing the public library</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/27/privatizing-the-public-library/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the harm? David Streitfeld at the NYT reports that Library Systems &#38; Services (LSSSI), a for-profit corporation, has contracted to run the public libraries of numerous municipalities.  Their reach is expanding rapidly, Streitfeld reports, and in terms of number of branches, they rank right behind Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.  This raises interesting questions about the proper role of the [...]


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		<title>Ignore them. They&#8217;re insane.</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/22/ignore-them-theyre-insane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The possible contradiction at the heart of Stewart and Colbert&#8217;s rallies. Jon Stewart’s upcoming “Rally to Restore Sanity” and Stephen Colbert’s mock counter-rally, “March to Keep Fear Alive”—satirical (yet deeply seriously) responses to Glen Beck’s “Restore Honor” rally—are a rare form of politics, and not because comedians are leading the way. There are, very generally, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/02/primitivism-is-insane/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Primitivism is insane'>Primitivism is insane</a></li>
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		<title>The trolley problem at West Point</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/19/the-trolley-problem-at-west-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophy for soldiers David Edmonds at BBC News reports that all West Point cadets are now required to study moral philosophy and &#8220;the trolley problem.&#8221; He outlines the famous thought experiment nicely: Imagine there is a runaway tram, known in America as a trolley, heading towards five people tied to the track. You are a [...]


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		<title>Polls: they told me to do it</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/10/polls-they-told-me-to-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When should we hear what the public thinks? Parties and politicians often oppose the other side&#8217;s position, whether on gay marriage, Afghanistan, or anything else, by arguing that it&#8217;s at odds with the people&#8217;s wishes, as revealed by opinion polls.  When is such an appeal to polls appropriate?  It&#8217;s more complicated then it appears. On [...]


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		<title>Feminist polygamy&#8230;and other dangerous thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/09/feminist-polygamy-and-other-dangerous-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The website Big Think devoted each day last month to a &#8220;dangerous idea&#8221; from experts in various fields.  A number of them relate to public philosophy. Among the relevant posts, Richard Pildes, NYU constitutional law professor, argues for the abolition of primary elections. (A topic I discussed here). Peter Singer, Princeton utilitarian philosopher, argues we [...]


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		<title>We buy their drugs and sell them our guns</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/02/we-buy-their-drugs-and-sell-them-our-guns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US responsibility for Mexican drug lords cont. In today’s Christian Science Monitor, I expand upon an argument I began in an earlier post about the United States’ moral responsibility for the vicious Mexican drug lords.  In the Monitor I wrote: Mexican drug lords exist to feed the US drug market. And they get their guns [...]


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		<title>Moderate or &#8220;moderate&#8221; Islam?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/26/moderate-or-moderate-islam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who&#8217;s liberal enough? Ross Douthat writes a thoughtful piece at the NYT Blog on how to understand and engage with Muslim critics of radical Islamism.  He rejects those Western thinkers who limit the category of &#8220;moderate Muslims&#8221; to those, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali or Irshad Manji, who endorse Western liberalism absolutely and without qualification.  He [...]


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		<title>A good argument against gay marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/10/a-good-argument-against-gay-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Ross Douthat fails to deliver I agree with Luke that Ross Douthat’s argument against gay marriage in the NYT is bad political philosophy. A good argument against gay marriage needs to clarify: (A) What values gay marriage threatens, (B) The process by which it threatens those values, (C) The values protected or promoted by [...]


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