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		<title>Mandatory public philosophy courses in high school?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/12/mandatory-public-philosophy-courses-in-high-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Free expression]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post’s “Answer Sheet” local schools blog has an interesting post on a Maryland school teacher who disciplined a student for not standing and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.  The teacher had her escorted by school police officers to the Assistant Principal&#8217;s office who demanded the girl apologize for “defiance.”  Of course, nobody can [...]


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		<title>Bloodless war?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/11/bloodless-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Christian Science Monitor, Richard Scott discusses a greater role for non-lethal weapons in future war fighting.  The morality of physically controlling and coercing people without killing them is different than the one where people die.  What does a theory of just non-lethal war look like?
-Jake


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		<title>Where are the Liberals?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/11/where-are-the-liberals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic is featuring three theories on why liberals haven&#8217;t been more effective under the Obama Administration, particularly given Democrats&#8217; control of all three branches.
First up is Kevin Baker of Harper&#8217;s, who argues that liberals simply have no backbone, practicing what can only be called &#8220;learned helplessness.&#8221;  Baker believes that while liberalism shows some life [...]


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		<title>&#8216;Tis better to receive than to support</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/10/tis-better-to-receive-than-to-support/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/10/tis-better-to-receive-than-to-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Time and time again, vociferous opponents of state-run health care end up ironically voicing support for the very policies they oppose.  Saturday, Sarah Palin told a Canadian crowd in Calgary that her family &#8220;used to hustle over the border for health care we received in  Canada.  And I think now, isn&#8217;t that ironic.&#8221;  Well, [...]


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		<title>Cheney against sanctity of the home!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/09/cheney-against-sanctity-of-the-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/09/cheney-against-sanctity-of-the-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Julian Sanchez has an additional reason to condemn the deplorable effort by the far right to blame lawyers who defended Guantanamo inmates for&#8230;something.
The central, celebrated cases that have established the boundaries of our most cherished civil liberties often involve bad people who are&#8230;.Few other people have an incentive to bear the burden of fighting all [...]


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		<title>Involuntary risk</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/09/involuntary-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Morality in a recessionary world
It used to be that the American retirement system relied on a so-called three-legged stool of assets: Social Security, a pension, and private savings.  Changes in our economy over the last 50 or so years have cut away at two of the legs.
Our personal savings rate dropped to the low single [...]


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		<title>Hate speech and the Constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/08/hate-speech-and-the-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/08/hate-speech-and-the-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal vs. Public Morality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If he contributes nothing else to society, the infamous Fred Phelps has at least forced us to further examine the notion of free speech.  At what point does offensive expression become punishable under the law?
Phelps is the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, which has gained notoriety over the past decade as a result of [...]


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		<title>Femarxism</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/08/femarxism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The state of the women&#8217;s liberation movement is poor, according to British Marxists writing in The Guardian and counterfire.org.
-Jake


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		<title>The zen master and the failure of &#8220;morality as outcome&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/08/the-zen-master-and-the-failure-of-morality-as-outcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you judge the morality of an outcome when consequences are endless?

Since the Academy Awards just wrapped up, it seems appropriate to begin with a movie.
This weekend I finally got around to watching Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War, an excellent biographical film by Aaron Sorkin about the congressman who from 1979 to 1989 organized covert CIA support [...]


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		<title>Reciprocal obligations in Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/05/reciprocal-obligations-in-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some in Europe have long criticized the United States for failing to have a sense of communal obligation.  Personal responsibility has been an important slogan here, rather than broad-based social welfare programs.  But the limits of this European sensibility are now being tested by Greece&#8217;s economic problems.
How will it all turn out?
-Sam


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