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		<title>Inconceivable!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/04/inconceivable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is fertility a health issue or a lifestyle choice? This month a health care refom advisory panel will meet to consider whether contraception should be offered free of charge as a form of preventative medicine, the AP reports. Healthcare reform of course poses many questions concerning how medical services are paid for and delivered. But, [...]


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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/2009/11/13/is-health-care-pro-family/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Is health care pro-family?'>Is health care pro-family?</a></li>
<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>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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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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>Guest Post: Living &#8220;childfree&#8221; and easy</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/15/guest-post-living-childfree-and-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ No kidding around Jonathan Last covers the “childfree” movement in a recent Weekly Standard piece.   He writes: These people differ from the merely “childless” in that they want the world to know that their situation is not an accident.  A spinster or an infertile couple might be childless by bad luck.  The childfree are childless [...]


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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>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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		<title>Citizens by birth?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/10/citizens-by-birth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican leaders have reversed course after it was widely reported last week that some top Republicans are reconsidering the 14th Amendment right that guarantees citizenship to those born in the United States. In an Associated Press article, Jeff Sessions of Alabama was quoted detailing his party’s concerns about the amendment with respect to immigration policy: [...]


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		<title>Married with (biological) children</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/09/married-with-biological-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s New York Times Ross Douthat dismisses many of the traditional arguments against gay marriage, but concludes by stating that heterosexual marriage is unique in an important respect. This ideal holds up the commitment to lifelong fidelity and support by two sexually different human beings — a commitment that involves the mutual surrender, arguably, [...]


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		<title>Father knows best</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/21/father-knows-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration&#8217;s new Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative Beginning with a speech on Father&#8217;s Day Sunday, Obama launched a new initiative on responsible fatherhood.  This was a campaign issue for then-candidate Obama, and remains one of the social issues with which he shares common ground with conservatives, who frequently emphasize the role of responsible parenting [...]


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		<title>WWTD?  (What would Tiger do?)</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/04/07/wwtd-what-would-tiger-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Wright argues in today&#8217;s New York Times that &#8220;in its own way, the Tiger Woods scandal is as important as Kandahar and the Catholic Church.&#8221;  Why?  He provides a list of reasons, including: 5) Moral sanction matters. Though monogamous marriage may be, on average, the best way to rear children, a lifetime of monogamous [...]


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