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		<title>What Does A Liberal Believe? An Answer for 2012.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A liberal believes in the permanence of humanity’s imperfection. He resigns himself to a regime in which the good will be the result of numberless actions and never the object of a conscious choice. He subscribes to the pessimism that &#8230; <a href="http://erickoch.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/what-does-a-liberal-believe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erickoch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7410808&amp;post=2671&amp;subd=erickoch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Armenian Genocide: Debates in France, Israel and Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of deaths resulting from the Turkish massacres and deportations of Armenians in 1915 and 1916 is estimated to amount to between 1 and 1.5 million victims. The Turks deny that there was any intention to exterminate Armenians and &#8230; <a href="http://erickoch.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/armenian-genocide-debates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erickoch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7410808&amp;post=2667&amp;subd=erickoch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Elite Spanning the World: The Views of Arhundhati Roy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extracts from an interview with the Indian author of The God of Small Things (Die Zeit, 8/9/2011) We have a world-wide elite that is culturally and economically interconnected and that cares only about one thing: its own survival. In Europe, &#8230; <a href="http://erickoch.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/arhundhati-roy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erickoch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7410808&amp;post=2662&amp;subd=erickoch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Omissions in an Advertisement by the University of Toronto</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Polanyi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A milestone posting – number 600. Last week, the University of Toronto reminded readers of The Globe and Mail that among its ten graduates who received the Nobel Prize were Walter Kohn and John Pollanyi. Kohn was the co-winner of the &#8230; <a href="http://erickoch.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/two-omissions-in-uoft-ad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erickoch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7410808&amp;post=2653&amp;subd=erickoch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Variations of Being Wrong: Christopher Hitchens, Michael Ignatieff and Albert Einstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens He backed the war in Iraq. He was right about most things, but he was wrong about that. Why? Gary Kaminya has the answer. He wrote in The Virtuoso (Salon, December 17): “On the most crucial political and &#8230; <a href="http://erickoch.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/three-variations-of-being-wrong/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erickoch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7410808&amp;post=2648&amp;subd=erickoch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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