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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>
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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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		<title>Are firemen like doctors?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/20/are-firefighters-like-doctors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How deep does the analogy go?  Not deep enough to justify universal health care. At the Washington Post blog, Ezra Klein discusses the parallel between firefighters letting someone’s house burn because he didn’t pay $75 for fire insurance—which happened a few weeks ago in a rural area of Tennessee that doesn’t guarantee fire protection—and letting [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/11/24/subsidizing-spiritual-healing/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Subsidizing spiritual healing'>Subsidizing spiritual healing</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/08/26/more-on-healthcare-and-choice/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: More on healthcare and choice'>More on healthcare and choice</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>
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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>I am shocked and appalled</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/18/i-am-shocked-and-appalled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear and loathing in law and politics Risk-perception expert David Ropeik writes at Project Syndicate that nuclear energy remains controversial in Germany in the wake of Chancellor Merkel’s decision to extend the operating lives of the country’s nuclear plans. A 2006 BBC poll finds that in France some 56% of the public opposes nuclear energy, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/08/20/are-guns-covered-in-the-public-option/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Are guns covered in the public option?'>Are guns covered in the public option?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/09/lawful-mutiny/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Lawful mutiny'>Lawful mutiny</a></li>
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		<title>When silly laws benefit no one</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/07/when-silly-laws-benefit-no-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/07/when-silly-laws-benefit-no-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABC News reports that firefighters in the Tennessee city of South Fulton refused to put out a fire because of the family’s failure to pay a $75 annual fee for rural fire protection services (the family lived outside of city limits, so the fee was in place of normal city taxes). The firefighters were obligated [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/06/25/no-hall-pass/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: No hall pass'>No hall pass</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/09/sex-sometimes-involves-money/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Sex sometimes involves money'>Sex sometimes involves money</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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		<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>Iraqi getaway</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/22/iraqi-getaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent news coverage of the three American hikers detained in Iran since 2009 raises important questions about  ‘danger tourism’ and its role in foreign policy. The hikers’ trip to mountainous northern Iraq took an unpleasant turn when they wandered into Iran and were promptly accused of espionage by the Iranian government. Media response to [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/17/iran-the-times-they-are-a-changin%e2%80%99/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Iran: The Times They Are A-Changin’'>Iran: The Times They Are A-Changin’</a></li>
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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>Hope and change in schooling are sorely needed</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/14/hope-and-change-in-schooling-are-sorely-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/14/hope-and-change-in-schooling-are-sorely-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Distributive Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elitism and egalitarianism in education Courtland Milloy suggests at the Washington Post that D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s vision for the D.C. school system is both inspiring and quixotic. Milloy quotes Rhee as suggesting that elitism, “reluctance by the city’s haves to share classrooms with the have-nots,” is the single largest obstacle to school reform. [...]


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		<title>Natural science?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/01/natural-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stem cell research and moral culpability. A piece in The National Review commends a US district judge for halting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.  Before this ruling the Obama administration drew a distinction between the destruction of human embryos to create stem cell lines and the subsequent use of these stem cells in [...]


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