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		<title>Some election thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/04/some-election-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The revolution will be televised After a midterm election which featured the largest pick-up of seats by any one party since 1948, most mainstream pundits have focused on the purely political slicing and dicing: is the Tea Party ascendant?  What does it mean for 2012?  How crazy is Rand Paul? But elections are also moments [...]


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		<title>Blinded by the light</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/19/blinded-by-the-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeding the national dialogue “The dialogue is impoverished.”  This lament is heard across the political spectrum, echoing between the margins of opinion pages and muttered by graying professors in an air of resignation.  It’s the reason this website was created.  It’s a statement we all seem to agree on, and one thing we are all [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/18/bring-it-on-back/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Bring it on back?'>Bring it on back?</a></li>
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		<title>Bring it on back?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/18/bring-it-on-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A piece from Newsweek explores (and criticizes) tea party veneration for the Constitution.  What I found most interesting is a distinction between two types of &#8220;originalism&#8221; in Constitutional interpretation. While conservatives generally prefer the second approach, many disagree over how it should be implemented—including the Supreme Court’s most committed originalists, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/04/13/from-the-source/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: From the source'>From the source</a></li>
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		<title>Career of evil?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/08/career-of-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A continent’s past crimes and present guilt A piece in The National Review commends an essay by Parisian intellectual Pascal Bruckner that diagnoses a type of European “self-hatred.”  Europe apparently views its own history as a series of crimes for which it must repent.  Bruckner thinks this guilt is responsible for the continent’s “decline.” Do [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/21/just-what-the-doctor-ordered/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Just what the doctor ordered?'>Just what the doctor ordered?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/05/reciprocal-obligations-in-europe/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Reciprocal obligations in Europe'>Reciprocal obligations in Europe</a></li>
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		<title>Makes much more sense to live in the present tense</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at CNN, Will Bunch bemoans how Glenn Beck is attempting to rewrite history in order to support his own political agenda. For thousands of followers […], there is a genuine desire to relearn American history. The only problem is that what they&#8217;re learning is bunk. It&#8217;s not history as it happened, but rather a [...]


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		<title>All those yesterdays</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/25/all-those-yesterdays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophy, the Constitution, and respect for the Founding Fathers According to a report by the Associated Press, Republicans have proposed forty-two amendments to the Constitution during the current Congress, compared to twenty-seven such proposals by the Democrats (one third of which are part of a package from a single member). This is surprising because many [...]


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		<title>Americans are stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/20/americans-are-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may not know this, but, earlier this year, President Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of health care since the 1965 creation of Medicare.  It&#8217;s the largest piece of social legislation in at least half a century. I know, I know, I shouldn&#8217;t be treating you as if you have your head [...]


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		<title>History helps</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/09/history-helps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reply to Han In his post today, Han disagrees with some big guns&#8211;Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor and George Nethercutt, Jr.&#8211;arguing against the importance of historical knowledge for legal, policy, and political philosophy questions. Alas, I&#8217;m with Sandy and Chip on this one.  As to the law, Han writes: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t seem to me that in [...]


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		<title>How the West was won and where it got us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is knowledge of our country’s history necessary for engaged citizens? A few days ago, an op-ed in the USA Today by Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor and George Nethercutt, Jr. lamented the lack of knowledge among Americans of the history of the nation and its founding documents. In their words: Parents, educators and leaders at all levels of [...]


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		<title>Sacred (but political) texts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day before the Fourth of July, Tara Rowe from The Political Game offered her readers a guest post on relationship between one’s faith and one’s interpretation of political issues and of the US Constitution. In the end, it is a screed against America’s religious right and people like Glenn Beck, full of generalizations and [...]


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