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		<title>Parents v. schools</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/29/parents-v-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to do when parents don&#8217;t want their children exposed to certain material? Charles’ post yesterday raised some critical questions as to when “parents should have the power to ban school texts.” While there are obviously difficult cases, I think most people would balk at the idea of pulling Catcher in the Rye or The [...]


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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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		<title>The loss of innocence is more than a literary trope</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/28/the-loss-of-innocence-is-more-than-a-literary-trope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/28/the-loss-of-innocence-is-more-than-a-literary-trope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to debates over public school library blacklists, the BBC poses the question, “should parents have the power to ban school texts?” The complaints the BBC article addresses are mostly about children’s exposure to sexuality. Some of the books in question are literary classics, though most are staples of pop culture like the Twilight [...]


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		<title>Honesty is the best policy</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/27/honesty-is-the-best-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/27/honesty-is-the-best-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sexual taboos lead the way to hypocrisy and tragedy CNN reports that Bishop Eddie Long, Baptist church leader and staunch opponent of gay marriage, will defend himself from allegations of sexual assault on younger men. If the allegations prove true, then Bishop Long’s case will be the latest in a succession of gay sex scandals [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/01/the-challenge-of-social-science-in-constitutional-interpretation-and-public-policy/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The challenge of social science in constitutional interpretation and public policy'>The challenge of social science in constitutional interpretation and public policy</a></li>
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		<title>God Save the Queen (or President?)</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/21/god-save-the-queen-or-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/21/god-save-the-queen-or-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics, religion, and &#8220;public reason&#8221; Writing for The Washington Post, Damon Linker proposes a norm of questioning politicians about their religious beliefs. Every religion is radically particular, with its own distinctive beliefs about God, human history and the world. These are specific, concrete claims &#8212; about the status of the religious community in relation to [...]


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		<title>Should identity and politics ever mix?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/16/should-identity-and-politics-ever-mix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that France’s Senate has overwhelmingly approved banning Islamic full-body coverings. The heart of the issue is the integration of Muslim immigrants, who have been arriving in France and other European countries in large numbers for the last three decades but have often visibly failed to assimilate. Undoubtedly, the Paris riots of 2005 [...]


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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>Ground Zero mosque</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/16/ground-zero-mosque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morality vs. legality? The debate over the Muslim mosque and community center near Ground Zero has resulted in a number of different, passionate reactions.  Once the media took up the subject, politicians and leaders from all over the US weighed in rather quickly. On Friday, even President Obama shared his view in favor of the [...]


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		<title>Mayor on the mosque</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/04/mayor-on-the-mosque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his bold speech yesterday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg supports the mosque construction near Ground Zero: Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question – should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of [...]


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		<title>God only knows</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/03/god-only-knows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an “International Burn the Quran Day” on the ninth anniversary of the September 11th attacks.   Their reasons for the book burning are pretty straightforward: We believe that Islam is of the devil, that it&#8217;s causing billions of people to go to hell, it is a deceptive religion, [...]


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