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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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		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free choice]]></category>
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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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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/14/it%e2%80%99s-a-woman%e2%80%99s-world-%e2%80%93and-much-more-in-iceland/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: It’s a woman’s world –and much more- in Iceland'>It’s a woman’s world –and much more- in Iceland</a></li>
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		<title>Not sure I sanction this, either</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/01/not-sure-i-sanction-this-either/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News reports that some Western companies continue to work in Burma despite pressure from governments and activists. The European Union bans and penalizes commercial activity that clearly supports the Burmese military regime and its repression. The United States and a few other countries impose sanctions that make business in the country nearly impossible. On [...]


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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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		<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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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>Guest Post: The dignity of the prostitute</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/06/guest-post-the-dignity-of-the-prostitute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Human dignity&#8221; demands that we must (never) legalize prostitution Last week, a judge in Canada’s largest province struck down the country’s federal laws criminalizing prostitution.  Judge Susan Himel of the Ontario Superior Court ruled that prohibitions on prostitution infringed Canadians’ constitutional rights to freedom of expression and to security of the person.  If the decision [...]


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		<title>I don’t sanction that</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/30/i-don%e2%80%99t-sanction-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that the United States has imposed sanctions on key Iranian officials for human rights abuses dating from the crackdown on anti-government protesters in the summer of 2009. The sanctions consist of travel bans and asset freezes. As far as diplomatic tools go, sanctions like these –small, targeted ones- are mostly symbolic in [...]


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		<title>The death penalty may be constitutional, but is it justified?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/23/the-death-penalty-may-be-constitutional-but-is-it-justified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Supreme Court has refused to overturn the execution of a Virginia woman who conspired with two accomplices to murder her husband and stepson. The legal debate that has emerged around the case concentrates mostly on whether the woman, who is borderline mentally disabled, deserves a harsher sentence than her accomplices, who each [...]


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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>Sex sometimes involves money</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/09/sex-sometimes-involves-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it still just sex? Last Friday, Craigslist censored the Adult Services section of its website after attorneys general in 17 states accused the site of aiding human trafficking and prostitution. By all accounts, the move is almost entirely symbolic. There are still plenty of thinly-veiled references on the site to erotic services. And Melissa [...]


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		<title>State Department throws Arizona under the bus</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/01/state-department-throws-arizona-under-the-bus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the State Department&#8217;s criticism of Arizona&#8217;s law is a strike for states&#8217; rights The AP reports that the US State Department listed its objection to Arizona&#8217;s immigration law as a step the State Department is taking to protect human rights. Understandably, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer disagrees, writing: &#8220;The idea of our own American government [...]


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		<title>Statelessness sucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Soros writes at Project Syndicate that the recent expulsion of the Roma from France is tantamount to collective punishment. His outrage is echoed by a French priest who prays for Sarkozy to have a heart attack. Although every state obviously has a right to protect public order, critics of the expulsion wonder “what harm [...]


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