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		<title>&#8220;I consider myself a spiritual person&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/29/i-consider-myself-a-spiritual-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does it matter that many don&#8217;t understand their own religion? A recent Pew poll reveals that Americans have a serious lack of knowledge regarding religion. Knowledge of Buddhism could be categorized with the location of Iraq on a map as knowledge that would be nice for the public to have; what seems disturbing is that [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/11/24/should-health-care-cover-spiritual-medicine/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Should health care cover spiritual medicine?'>Should health care cover spiritual medicine?</a></li>
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		<title>Christine O&#8217;Donnell and the ethics of silence</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/22/christine-odonnell-and-the-ethics-of-silence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/22/christine-odonnell-and-the-ethics-of-silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are politicians obligated to talk to the media? Christine O&#8217;Donnell, Tea Party favorite and winner of the Delaware Senate primary, used her Fox News platform to announce that she will no longer give national interviews. This seems to leave open the possibility that she would give interviews to local Delaware media, but that might be expecting too [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/05/21/primaries-as-partisan-purifiers/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Primaries as partisan purifiers'>Primaries as partisan purifiers</a></li>
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		<title>State Department throws Arizona under the bus</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/01/state-department-throws-arizona-under-the-bus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/01/state-department-throws-arizona-under-the-bus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the State Department&#8217;s criticism of Arizona&#8217;s law is a strike for states&#8217; rights The AP reports that the US State Department listed its objection to Arizona&#8217;s immigration law as a step the State Department is taking to protect human rights. Understandably, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer disagrees, writing: &#8220;The idea of our own American government [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/05/11/who-does-the-united-nations-represent/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Who does the United Nations represent?'>Who does the United Nations represent?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/12/14/personal-responsibility-and-the-nanny-state/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Personal responsibility and the nanny state'>Personal responsibility and the nanny state</a></li>
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		<title>Sorry Harvard, I got into TED!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/18/sorry-harvard-i-got-into-ted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the future of elite education, and what are the stakes for equality? Anya Kamenetz&#8217;s article, alluringly subtitled &#8220;How TED Became the New Harvard,&#8221; makes the argument that the elite conference/video sharing site has all the attributes of the next generation of elite education: tightly curated lectures from globally recognized leaders, distributed widely for [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/05/20/what-happens-to-philosophy/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: What happens to philosophy?'>What happens to philosophy?</a></li>
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		<title>TPP mobile</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/13/tpp-mobile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our smart-phone equipped readers can now access TPP more quickly and easily via our mobile-friendly site. The URL remains the same. Thanks for reading. -John Related posts:The David Brooks manual of style Happiness is an elephant


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		<title>Corporations and generosity</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/05/corporations-and-generosity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do corporations have a responsibility to help the economy? Daniel Gross has a front-page article on Slate claiming that certain specific companies can &#8220;afford&#8221; to match employee 401(k) contributions again; companies like UPS and FedEx put their matching programs on hold during the worst of the recession. The article uses two facts to assert its [...]


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		<title>Education and ROI</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/28/education-and-roi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should the government be in the business of maximizing its educational investment? Last week, the Obama administration released its proposals for reforming the way the federal government does business with for-profit colleges. What&#8217;s at stake is millions of dollars of federally-backed loans. Data suggests that for-profit colleges have a comparatively poor track record of graduating [...]


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		<title>Safety vs. privacy, resolved today</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/14/safety-vs-privacy-resolved-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should high-crime neighborhoods have a say in police staffing levels? This week the New York Times featured a program which targets high volume of police attention and effort in a small geographical area, a Brooklyn housing development. This mostly takes the form of stop-and-frisks, designed primarily to reduce the number of guns in the development. [...]


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		<title>Fundamental questions solved ($1.99)</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/07/fundamental-questions-solved-199/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should we be happy we can buy arguments? Yesterday Han linked to the NYT piece that discussed the strange increase in theist vs. atheist iPhone apps. The upside to these programs is that at least some people who use them will be exposed to the first time to a more sophisticated level of debate. (That&#8217;s [...]


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		<title>Philosophy and abstraction via The Stone</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/30/philosophy-and-abstraction-via-the-stone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/30/philosophy-and-abstraction-via-the-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What kind of philosophy is good for the state? NYT&#8217;s The Stone published what is, to me, the first piece that effectively delivers on their mission. The question at hand is why philosophy appears to be  so remote an inaccessible to those outside of academic philosophy. I&#8217;ll address the first response, by Alexander George. The [...]


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