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Dear Mr. President

By Charlie Deist | Published: March 22, 2010
Sometimes I imagine that I am granted the full, undivided attention of the President of the United States. If I had this opportunity now, this is what I might say:
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Haitian Charity

By Josh Weil | Published: January 20, 2010
It is not always the best thing to increase the funding of something. Not when there are more efficient alternatives for your resources, or long term unintended consequences. In a somewhat controversial blog post, Felix Simon argues that at this point you should donate to general emergency-relief funds instead of to Haiti. I’m sympathetic to Simon’s information [...]
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The Man of System: Justice edition

By Charlie Deist | Published: December 10, 2009
This semester in my Theories of Justice course, I have had the privilege of reading such eminent thinkers as J.S. Mill, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, Aristotle, and John Rawls. The course reader is put together by Harvard philosophy professor Michael J. Sandel, who also authors an accompanying volume, directed at a popular audience, of primarily [...]
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