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		<title>Play the game</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/02/play-the-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video games, value, and free speech The Supreme Court will soon hear a case concerning the state of California’s right to regulate the sale of violent video games to minors.  Writing for The Washington Post, game designer Daniel Greenberg thinks that the First Amendment should protect video games.  His argument relies on the value of [...]


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		<title>Am I (and everyone else) going insane?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/28/am-i-and-everyone-else-going-insane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free expression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medea Benjamin of the anti-war organization CODEPINK posted an open letter to Jon Stewart in which she complained about being labeled as one of the “loud people” who are getting in the way of sane discourse.  She thinks Stewart’s point of view is in fact engendering political complacency and “slacktivism.” So let&#8217;s get this straight: [...]


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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>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/09/24/a-laughing-matter/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: A laughing matter?'>A laughing matter?</a></li>
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		<title>Throw your hatred down</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/26/throw-your-hatred-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moral disagreement and demonization Writing for The Washington Post, Robert Samuelson claims that dysfunction in American politics has reached a new low.  Samuelson diagnoses several reasons for the surging dysfunction in politics, but one strikes a particular chord with me: Second, politics has become more moralistic from both left and right. Idealistic ideologues campaign to [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/12/you-know-youre-right/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: You know you&#8217;re right'>You know you&#8217;re right</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/02/respect-what-does-it-mean-to-horst-kohler/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Guest Post: What does respect mean to Horst Köhler?'>Guest Post: What does respect mean to Horst Köhler?</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>
		<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></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>Mother always said to tell the truth</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/04/mother-always-said-to-tell-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But the truth doesn’t always make an interesting story The biopic The Social Network opened on Friday. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and founder of Facebook, and people close to him convincingly dismiss the movie as more fiction than fact. Have David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin done us a disservice? People have always applied artistic license [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/10/27/the-naked-truth-about-freedom/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The naked truth about freedom'>The naked truth about freedom</a></li>
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		<title>Worlds apart –why an open society may be better after all</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/21/worlds-apart-%e2%80%93why-an-open-society-may-be-better-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Han wrote about Thomas Friedman’s Op-Ed in the New York Times on the “green economy,” contrasting the technocratic approach of China’s authoritarian rulers with the haphazard and undirected approach of the American political system. Han suggested that technocratic and authoritarian governments may have an advantage for costly but necessary endeavors. There is certainly [...]


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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>Stone cold crazy</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/15/stone-cold-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media and reporting on “insane” ideas In a Washington Post op-ed Michael Gerson lamented the amount of attention Rev. Terry Jones received for his plan to burn Qurans in commemoration of 9/11.  While he casts his net wide, Gerson has specific criticisms of the media. Nearly 100 journalists stood sweltering outside the Dove World [...]


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		<title>Did Petraeus go too far?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/14/did-petraeus-go-too-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When can military leaders criticize constitutionally protected speech? Last week General David Petraeus made news for speaking out against a Florida church’s plan to burn copies of the Koran. While many commended General Petraeus for his comments, a few others felt his tone was inappropriate. Over at the Democracy Arsenal,  Michael Cohen worries that Petraeus [...]


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		<title>Morality and gaming</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/25/morality-and-gaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why banning realistic depictions of war in games is wrong The BBC reported on Monday that British Defense Secretary Liam Fox has continued to defend comments he made calling for a retail ban of the newest Medal of Honor game. The publishers of the game, Electronic Arts, have defended it and accused Fox of portraying [...]


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