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		<title>Cheney against sanctity of the home!</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/09/cheney-against-sanctity-of-the-home/</link>
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		<title>Involuntary risk</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/09/involuntary-risk/</link>
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		<title>Hate speech and the Constitution</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/08/hate-speech-and-the-constitution/</link>
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		<title>Femarxism</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/08/femarxism/</link>
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		<title>The zen master and the failure of &#8220;morality as outcome&#8221;</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/08/the-zen-master-and-the-failure-of-morality-as-outcome/</link>
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		<title>Reciprocal obligations in Europe</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/05/reciprocal-obligations-in-europe/</link>
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		<title>Krugman on the party divide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman comments on the differing moral values of the two major parties.
How can the parties agree on policy when they have utterly different visions of how the economy works, when one party feels for the unemployed, while the other weeps over affluent victims of the “death tax”?
Is Krugman&#8217;s assessment fair or does he oversimplify [...]


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		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/05/krugman-on-the-party-divide/</link>
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		<title>Must we call genocide &#8220;genocide&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Armenian genocide?  Or The Armenian mass killings?  And does it matter?
In a debate that seems to recur every few years, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs voted today to condemn as &#8220;genocide&#8221;, the mass killing of Armenians during and after World War I.  Like in 2007, the last time an Armenian Genocide resolution came [...]


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		<title>For Sale: Acropolis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[German politicians yesterday argued that Greece should sell some uninhabited islands and historical monuments, like the Acropolis and Parthenon, in order to stave off bankruptcy.  This raises some questions about the E.U. and international justice: What is the moral relationship between EU states?  Is the E.U. simply a dense network of treaties amongst independent states [...]


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		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/04/for-sale-acropolis/</link>
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		<title>Cow ethics ctd.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marginal Revolution tackles the relevant and complicated world of cow ethics:
If each cow brought to life adds even some small bit of cow utility to the grand total of cow welfare must not beef eaters be lauded, at least if they are hungry enough?  Or is the pro beef-eater argument simply repugnant?
Maybe it&#8217;s ruining the [...]


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		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/04/cow-ethics-ctd/</link>
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