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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Free expression]]></category>
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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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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/16/fight-fire-with-fire/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Fight fire with fire'>Fight fire with fire</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/02/10/fish-on-the-first-continued/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Fish on the First, Continued'>Fish on the First, Continued</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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		<title>Fear and loathing redux</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/26/fear-and-loathing-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radley Balko at Reason magazine argues that the close association between democratic politics and crime policy results in a vicious cycle of fear-mongering, excessive incarceration, and intergenerational poverty. He cites a Boston Globe article that reveals a tendency for undue and irrational pessimism and fear among the population. I explored the problem of irrational fear [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/01/28/how-should-we-pick-judges/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How should we pick judges?'>How should we pick judges?</a></li>
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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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		<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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		<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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		<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>
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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>Who are you, Israel?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/11/who-are-you-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Israeli cabinet has approved a motion requiring new citizens to declare their loyalty to a “Jewish and democratic state.”  The controversial amendment to the citizenship law has been denounced as discriminatory by some. […]Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi said that Israel is &#8220;discriminative in its policies and laws against all who are not Zionists.&#8221; [...]


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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>
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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>Ballad of an obese man</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/06/ballad-of-an-obese-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberalism, free choice, and Happy Meals It has been reported that the city of San Francisco is considering an ordinance that would ban toys in kids meals unless the meals contain fruit and vegetable portions and limits calories.  While the proposed ban applies to all restaurants, it is targeted specifically at McDonald’s and their infamous [...]


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