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		<title>Meals, manners and the &#8216;food faddists&#8217;.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/31/meals-manners-and-the-food-faddists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took out a rare book on the Philosophy of Food yesterday with the intent of reading the aesthetics chapters as preparation for my next essay. When I saw that Scruton had a chapter on manners, though, it was inevitable &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/31/meals-manners-and-the-food-faddists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2945&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2,000 animals per second.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/31/2000-animals-per-second/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s how many animals are slaughtered to feed global meat-eating, all year round. It amounts to about 60 billion annually. When I became vegetarian last month it was strictly with environmental reasons in mind. Greenhouse gas considerations provided ample support &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/31/2000-animals-per-second/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2941&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The inevitable rise towards marriage equality.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/31/the-inevitable-rise-towards-marriage-e/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try guessing who it is mapping out the logic here: If moral disapprobation of homosexual conduct is “no legitimate state interest” for purposes of proscribing that conduct; and if, as the Court coos (casting aside all pretense of neutrality), “when &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/31/the-inevitable-rise-towards-marriage-e/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2939&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug-sniffing and thermal-imaging.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/30/drug-sniffing-and-thermal-imaging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick question. When we invoke the value of privacy to defend why some law or enforcement procedure is inappropriate, surely we mean to reference the fact that we will feel watched and uncomfortable, and we worry that the &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/30/drug-sniffing-and-thermal-imaging/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2937&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rightly enforcing wrong laws.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/30/rightly-enforcing-wrong-laws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Chief Justice Roberts is to be believed, it&#8217;s impossible. Here are his comments this week on Obama&#8217;s decision to keep implementing DOMA despite deeming it unconstitutional: If he has made a determination that executing the law by enforcing the &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/30/rightly-enforcing-wrong-laws/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2935&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Times on protecting sources.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/30/the-times-on-protecting-sources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Bill Keller column on Bradley Manning is a few weeks old now, but I found it saved and unread on my iPad yesterday. I was struck how, on the one hand, Keller naturally suggests The Times greatly appreciates the &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/30/the-times-on-protecting-sources/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2933&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The passions of the day.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/30/the-passions-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Scruton has a typically conservative column in the NYT warning against the dangers of sweeping social and institutional changes, which were often well-intentioned but brought misery. World War One, Afghanistan and maybe even the Arab Spring seem like arguably &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/30/the-passions-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2931&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indefinite break.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/25/indefinite-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So preparing from scratch two five thousand word essays in just over a month has proven harder work than I imagined, especially when a week spent house hunting for next year is factored in. I barely have time to read &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/25/indefinite-break/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2892&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why life is worth living.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/14/why-life-is-worth-living/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now I wish I could just fast forward to June. I have five Springsteen concerts in one month lined up. I&#8217;m standing for all of them. I intend on queuing from early morning onwards every time, so I have &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/14/why-life-is-worth-living/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2888&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balls on Newsnight.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/14/balls-on-newsnight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So tonight&#8217;s interview was far better. My only concern is that by treating us like adults, Balls does risk confusing voters. He avoids jargon, but he does have a tendency to talk in counterfactual terms which to many may appear &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/14/balls-on-newsnight/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2886&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awaiting a scandal.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/14/awaiting-a-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Brendan Doughtery thinks it&#8217;s inevitable that dirt will be dug up about Bergoglio: Are we to believe that Buenos Aires has been spared the moral rot and corruption found almost everywhere else in the Catholic clergy? Or, more likely, do &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/14/awaiting-a-scandal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2884&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faux-balance on Newsnight.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/faux-balance-on-newsnight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Krugman went on Newsnight last night via video link to debate the Business Minister Matthew Hancock. It was basically a re-run of his appearance a year ago. His position hasn&#8217;t changed because nothing has transpired to suggest his theory is &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/faux-balance-on-newsnight/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2881&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quote for the day.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/quote-for-the-day-45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavour with all our resources and all our strength to become &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/quote-for-the-day-45/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2879&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Brands.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/behind-the-brands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Singer checks in on Oxfam&#8217;s new project to evaluate the ethics of the major companies that supply our food. Most score poorly on every issue, but especially on the environment: [T]he big brands receive low grades from Oxfam, mostly &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/behind-the-brands/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2876&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Free range&#8221;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is not what vegetarians who aren&#8217;t vegans with a concern for animal welfare want to hear. I thought I was in the ethical clear insofar as I avoid those caged eggs in crap packaging &#8211; which also taste &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/free-range/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2869&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transgender teens.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker has a report this week which is sadly pay-walled and should be made public as a civic gesture. I&#8217;ve always thought that the taboo surrounding transgender people is the final frontier in the liberal search for sexual tolerance. &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/transgender-teens/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2872&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dumb quote for the day.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/dumb-quote-for-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.&#8221; -A. Bourdain — HuffPost Taste (@HuffPostTaste) March 13, 2013 Seriously? By the way &#8211; I think I discovered &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/dumb-quote-for-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2866&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defending Damien Shannon, continued.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/defending-damien-shannon-continued-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Swan reports that legal proceedings have been halted between Shannon and St Hugh&#8217;s after an offer from the latter to negotiate an out of court agreement. Since the mainstream media seems to have either lost interest or missed this &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/defending-damien-shannon-continued-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2864&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the difference.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[There are] no cost-free, risk-free ways of finding such huge sums of money [for investment]. Not at a time when Labour left the cupboard bare and we still have the second highest deficit in Europe, behind only Greece. That&#8217;s Conservative &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/13/spot-the-difference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2862&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The developing discontent.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/11/the-developing-discontent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that in conceding that the national economic debate was lost and that the coalition&#8217;s philosophy was here for good, I may have joined many in being too pessimistic too soon. Cameron and Osborne are not for turning, but &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/11/the-developing-discontent/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2859&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>#humanity.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/10/humanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent me this. There&#8217;s not much to say, really. Just watch.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2855&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Anti-Machiavelli.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/07/the-anti-machiavelli/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Machiavelli himself, of course. Alexander Lee explains: Although we should be wary about dismissing The Prince as entirely insincere, Machiavelli’s arrest warrant helps to explain the work’s apparent incongruity. More a bid to suck up to those who had robbed him &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/07/the-anti-machiavelli/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2852&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The two topics to come.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/07/the-two-topics-to-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So over the next two months I need to read about from scratch and write 5,000 words on each of two topics: the idea of the right to do wrong, and the argument that food can be an aesthetic. Diverse, &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/07/the-two-topics-to-come/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2847&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death of the NYT&#8217;s Green blog.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drum wonders what explains why the NYT&#8217;s Green blog failed: [T]he reason they [have axed it] is almost certainly that the blog wasn’t getting much traffic (and, therefore, not generating much advertising revenue). So a more constructive question is: Why &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/07/death-of-the-nyts-green-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2844&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Managing without meat, continued.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should be back now for the foreseeable future. I had a lazy Sopranos-stuffed week after finishing the environmental essay, and since I wasn&#8217;t reading much news or philosophy there was little worth posting here. But now I&#8217;ll be beginning &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/03/07/managing-without-meat-continued-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2837&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sorites and emissions (Wonkish)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a logician or philosopher of language, but on the off chance anyone reading can smell bullshit in this argument I&#8217;ve just written, let me know: The argument that individual emissions make no difference faces a form of the &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/27/sorites-and-emissions-wonkish/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2831&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judging Scruton.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a talk by him at Balliol last night, explicitly on the topic of what&#8217;s wrong with the Left and how to carve out a legitimate alternative space on the Right. I&#8217;ve had classes in aesthetics with him weekly &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/26/judging-scruton/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2829&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Metaphysical dreams, cruel realities.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just caught up with the fight in the Commons earlier. Balls had a brutal line against Osborne, bluntly summarising the absurdity of the situation: ‎He has gone in a weekend from saying we must stick to his plan to &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/25/metaphysical-dreams-cruel-realities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2826&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plan of action.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My introduction for the paper is pasted in below. I&#8217;ve just titled it &#8220;Climate change ethics - Individual acts and global disasters: what you should do and why, even if nobody else does.&#8221; &#8212;&#8211; You might expect climate change ethics &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/25/plan-of-action/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2824&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slow few days.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/25/slow-few-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most probably, anyway. I&#8217;m starting to write now, so it depends how long these 5,000 words take. Given the size of my green archives on here, however, I&#8217;m not expecting to lack things to say. I&#8217;ll be back soon, and &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/25/slow-few-days/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2822&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letting the world burn, continued.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/25/letting-the-world-burn-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s Guardian Editorial: There are many criticisms that can and many caveats that should be made about the ratings agencies. The agencies are taken too seriously. They are players in the market as well as judges of the market. The &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/25/letting-the-world-burn-continued/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2814&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fincher and Nolan on Malick.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/24/fincher-and-nolan-on-malick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How wonderful that this exists: I just stumbled on it because I saw To the Wonder earlier today, and I&#8217;m searching for all things Malick in its aftermath. Given I hated The Tree of Life when I first saw it despite now considering it &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/24/fincher-and-nolan-on-malick/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2812&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letting the world burn.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose George Osborne were to admit that austerity isn’t working. What, then, would be left of his claim to be qualified to do, well, anything? He has to stick it out until something turns up,no matter how many lives it &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/24/letting-the-world-burn/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2807&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modern academia, continued.</title>
		<link>http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/24/modern-academia-continued-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check this chart: The Atlantic has the details.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2804&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defending quinoa, continued.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This HuffPost piece seems to clear a lot of things up. The short story: Western demand has indeed sent prices sky high, but naturally to the benefit of Bolivian farmers, who are just struggling to boost production now within their &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/24/defending-quinoa-continued/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2801&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A sick patient put on a starvation diet.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go read Oxford&#8217;s Simon Wren-Lewis&#8217;s verdict on Osborne&#8217;s treatment of the British economy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2799&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are the environmentally conscious wasting their time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My reading on climate change ethics is coming to an end, at least for the purposes of the essay I&#8217;ll have to write next week. There&#8217;s no way, however, that I&#8217;ll be forgetting everything I&#8217;ve learnt in a hurry. My &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/23/are-the-environmentally-conscious-wasting-their-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2795&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leviathan&#8217;s naturalism.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Ta-Nehisi&#8217;s read-along of Hobbes continues, he is struck by it: I am amazed by the hardness&#8211;the relentless physicality&#8211;of Hobbes&#8217; world&#8230;&#160;Imagination is not some airy thing. It is the impression of some motion against your organs (sense) decaying. And this &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/23/leviathans-naturalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2792&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blurring the boundaries.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s recent attacks on the innovative advertising techniques that The Atlantic and Buzzfeed have been experimenting with seem to me to be spot on. It is, after all, hard for anyone to look at this and not weep for the future &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/23/blurring-the-boundaries/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2788&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quote for the day.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder that despite the economic problems we face, the world has confidence that we are dealing with them. Osborne, last summer, on Britain&#8217;s triple A credit rating which has now been removed. And yet: Just interviewed George Osborne about &#8230; <a href="http://liberalreflections.com/2013/02/23/quote-for-the-day-44/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liberalreflections.com&#038;blog=31578023&#038;post=2784&#038;subd=liberalreflections&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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