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		<title>Man at the top</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/09/man-at-the-top/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distributive Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Han]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[harry frankfurt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with inequality Writing for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof criticizes the rising inequality in America, comparing our economic situation to the famous “banana republics.”  According to Kristof: In the past, many of us acquiesced in discomfiting levels of inequality because we perceived a tradeoff between equity and economic growth. But there’s evidence [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/24/health-care-overload-whither-inequality/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Health care overload: whither inequality?'>Health care overload: whither inequality?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/30/trading-values/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Trading values'>Trading values</a></li>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Han]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History of Political Thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obligations/Duties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Berkowitz]]></category>
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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/2010/07/08/how-the-west-was-won-and-where-it-got-us/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How the West was won and where it got us'>How the West was won and where it got us</a></li>
<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>Mother always said to tell the truth</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/04/mother-always-said-to-tell-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/04/mother-always-said-to-tell-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Free expression]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal vs. Public Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defamation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Correctness]]></category>
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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>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/09/01/do-unto-others/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Do unto others'>Do unto others</a></li>
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		<title>Police and thieves</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/28/police-and-thieves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Han]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rise of China and America’s military responsibility A piece in The Atlantic reports on a joint US/Japan rehearsal to defend Japan from a possible Chinese invasion.  According to the article, while there is no immediate threat of any Chinese invasion, there is no doubt that China is a rising power that one day will [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/02/09/super-bowl-ads-cont-the-green-police/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Super Bowl Ads Con&#8217;t: The Green Police'>Super Bowl Ads Con&#8217;t: The Green Police</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/24/google-vs-china/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Google vs. China'>Google vs. China</a></li>
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		<title>Do ask, do tell –later, when you’re a little older</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/13/do-ask-do-tell-%e2%80%93later-when-you%e2%80%99re-a-little-older/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/13/do-ask-do-tell-%e2%80%93later-when-you%e2%80%99re-a-little-older/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal vs. Public Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discretion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[don't ask don't tell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, a federal judge in California ruled Don’t Ask Don’t Tell unconstitutional on First and Fifth Amendment grounds for restricting the rights of gay service members to free speech, free association, and due process.  The case put the Obama administration in a slightly awkward position, having to defend a standing law that it is [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/16/sensitivity-and-principle/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Sensitivity and principle'>Sensitivity and principle</a></li>
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		<title>Polls: they told me to do it</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/10/polls-they-told-me-to-do-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/10/polls-they-told-me-to-do-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When should we hear what the public thinks? Parties and politicians often oppose the other side&#8217;s position, whether on gay marriage, Afghanistan, or anything else, by arguing that it&#8217;s at odds with the people&#8217;s wishes, as revealed by opinion polls.  When is such an appeal to polls appropriate?  It&#8217;s more complicated then it appears. On [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/04/09/guest-post-majority-rules/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Guest post: Majority rules?'>Guest post: Majority rules?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/10/22/the-american-public-and-afghanistan/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The American public and Afghanistan'>The American public and Afghanistan</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Han]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal vs. Public Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comfirmational holism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guilt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Review]]></category>
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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>Who deserves sympathy?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/26/who-deserves-sympathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obligations/Duties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pakistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On both the 11th and the 23rd of this month there have been stories on BBC citing the inadequacy of the international aid response to the Pakistani floods. At the moment, there are seven mentions of the Pakistani floods on the front pages of the BBC site. U.S. news outlets have less to say. CNN, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/09/lawful-mutiny/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Lawful mutiny'>Lawful mutiny</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/23/statelessness-sucks/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Statelessness sucks'>Statelessness sucks</a></li>
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		<title>Lawful mutiny</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/09/lawful-mutiny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that several federal police officers in Ciudad Juarez have arrested their own commander on grounds of corruption and racketeering. On the heels of the Wikileaks case and in the midst of two ongoing wars, it is worth considering the moral role of the individual in security-related institutions like the military and police. [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/09/03/skirting-the-real-question/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Skirting the real question'>Skirting the real question</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/08/03/what-morality-means/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: What morality &#8220;means&#8221;'>What morality &#8220;means&#8221;</a></li>
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		<title>The ethics of the House ethics committee</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/30/the-ethics-of-the-house-ethics-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/30/the-ethics-of-the-house-ethics-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who do they represent? The most interesting ethical questions surrounding Charlie Rangel don’t concern him, his villas, or his rent controlled apartments.  They are about the operation and purpose of the House ethics committee and what ethical perspective members of the House should bring to bear on the controversy. Rangel, dethroned former chairman of the [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/10/26/augusta-rules/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Augusta rules'>Augusta rules</a></li>
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