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Super Tuesday: Why I Support Barak Obama

It’s a little hard to be away from my home country this week. I have followed politics closely since before the 2001 elections when I thought that a little bit of Bush would be good for the country to get out of its system. I followed the intervening years, then the 2004 campaign like someone [...]

Posted 04 February 2008 Adam § , , , § Comments (8)

Winter Shakers

While everyone else is watching the new Ken Burns documentary on tv, I’m waitig for the dvds and watching the Burns’ old documentary on the Shakers. I don’t think too many have seen it, but people really should. The Shakers had plenty of food during stored up for the harsh New England winters, but many [...]

Posted 28 September 2007 Adam § , § Comments (0)

Liberté, Egalité, and Rawls

We’re reading an excerpt from A Theory of Justice in my Social Ethics class this week, which means trying to show the relevance of the Difference Principle. I don’t know if it’s the way I teach Rawls, whether Rawls is just misguided or what, but almost no one ever likes Rawls, and particularly the Difference [...]

Posted 11 September 2007 Adam § , , , , § Comments (7)