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	<title>The Public Philosopher &#187; Equality</title>
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		<title>Man at the top</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/09/man-at-the-top/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distributive Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harry frankfurt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with inequality Writing for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof criticizes the rising inequality in America, comparing our economic situation to the famous “banana republics.”  According to Kristof: In the past, many of us acquiesced in discomfiting levels of inequality because we perceived a tradeoff between equity and economic growth. But there’s evidence [...]


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		<title>Would you like a melting pot or a salad bowl?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/19/would-you-like-a-melting-pot-or-a-salad-bowl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that multiculturalism has “utterly failed” amidst growing anti-immigrant sentiment in Germany. In the Netherlands, anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders was recently acquitted of discrimination and hate speech. Both of these mark serious departures from what was formerly the European consensus on multiculturalism. Given that immigration is both necessary and inevitable in [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/16/should-identity-and-politics-ever-mix/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Should identity and politics ever mix?'>Should identity and politics ever mix?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/23/its-the-economy-stupid/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: It&#8217;s the economy, stupid'>It&#8217;s the economy, stupid</a></li>
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		<title>It’s a woman’s world –and much more- in Iceland</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/14/it%e2%80%99s-a-woman%e2%80%99s-world-%e2%80%93and-much-more-in-iceland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that the World Economic Forum has found Iceland to be the country with the greatest parity between the genders. Out of curiosity, I decided to take a look at Iceland’s fertility rates to see if gender equality came at the expense of large families.  It does not.  In fact, according to John [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/17/whos-to-blame/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Who&#8217;s to blame?'>Who&#8217;s to blame?</a></li>
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		<title>You know you&#8217;re right</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/12/you-know-youre-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facts and opinion in a liberal democracy A recent video produced for the “10:10” campaign, which seeks to cut carbon emissions by ten percent a year for the next ten years, has come under intense criticism.  The video begins with an elementary school teacher explaining the 10:10 project to her class, and asking for her [...]


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		<title>Do not pass GO. Do not collect heart transplant.</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/20/do-not-pass-go-do-not-collect-heart-transplant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[complexity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The complexity of allocating health care morally ABC News reports that the morbidly obese are unlikely to receive heart transplants because their chances of recovery are so slim. Some transplant centers purportedly have a Body Mass Index cutoff of 35. Although nobody died in the making of the ABC story, the same cannot be said [...]


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		<title>Hope and change in schooling are sorely needed</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/14/hope-and-change-in-schooling-are-sorely-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/14/hope-and-change-in-schooling-are-sorely-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elitism and egalitarianism in education Courtland Milloy suggests at the Washington Post that D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s vision for the D.C. school system is both inspiring and quixotic. Milloy quotes Rhee as suggesting that elitism, “reluctance by the city’s haves to share classrooms with the have-nots,” is the single largest obstacle to school reform. [...]


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		<title>Trading values</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/30/trading-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project Syndicate has an ongoing series by Columbia University economist Jagdish Bhagwati on “The Open Economy and its Enemies.” There is more or less a consensus among economists that free trade promotes economic growth; the law of comparative advantage still holds nearly two centuries after it was formulated. But the opinions of both the public [...]


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		<title>It&#8217;s the economy, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/23/its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equality butts heads with freedom Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith write at Politico that a new debate about first principles and the role of government has replaced the social issues at stake during the “culture wars” of the last three decades. This dispute over first principles is deeply entwined with questions of national identity and [...]


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		<title>More on marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/16/more-on-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douthat clarifies his argument In his New York  Times blog, Ross Douthat wrestles with one of the most persuasive critiques of his recent article against gay marriage; the notion that there is no reason to view heterosexual relationships as exceptional or “distinctive” in a way that merits them being prioritized over homosexual relationships. In responding [...]


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		<title>When choice doesn&#8217;t matter</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/13/when-choice-doesnt-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles asks some provocative questions in his post today about the role of government versus the power of the market to lift people out of extreme destitution. But his approach, which focuses on individual responsibility and government constraint, begs the question by assuming, first, that all government action counts as a constraint on liberty and, [...]


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