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Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the War Without End (Lecture)
Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the War Without End (Lecture)
Mark Danner discusses the impact that the attacks of September 11, 2001 had on civil liberties and legal rights within t... Read more
24 May 2010
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Understanding Social Ecological Systems
Understanding Social Ecological Systems
Elinor Ostrom, Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, ... Read more
13 May 2010
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Designing a Path to Sustainable Development
Designing a Path to Sustainable Development
Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University Director of the Earth Institute, discusses the need to find paths to sustainability i... Read more
17 Mar 2010
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Hierarchies of Need
Hierarchies of Need
David Schmitdz, Professor of Philosophy, joint Professor of Economics and founding director of Arizona's Freedom Center,... Read more
29 Jun 2009
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Education and Equality
Education and Equality
Paul Weithman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, uses a philosophical perspective to talk about t... Read more
29 Jun 2009
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Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap
Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap
Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the gap of achievement levels ... Read more
29 Jun 2009
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Can We Learn Anything About Justice in Education From Thinking About Justice in Health-Care?
Can We Learn Anything About Justice in Education From Thinking About Justice in Health-Care?
Daniel Weinstock, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, uses the health-care system debate to draw para... Read more
29 Jun 2009
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Charter Schools Closing the Achievement Gap: Results from New York City and Chicago
Charter Schools Closing the Achievement Gap: Results from New York City and Chicago
Caroline Hoxby, Professor of Economics at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute, speaks about what needs to... Read more
29 Jun 2009
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Immigration Regimes, Schooling Regimes, and Educational Outcomes: What Is Fairest to Immigrants and Native-born Residents
Immigration Regimes, Schooling Regimes, and Educational Outcomes: What Is Fairest to Immigrants and Native-born Residents
Jennifer Hochschild, Professor at Harvard University, speaks about the accessibility and achievement of immigrants in ed... Read more
29 Jun 2009
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Ethical Issues in Higher Education
Ethical Issues in Higher Education
John Hennessy, President of Stanford University, speaks about just admission and need-based financial aid programs. Mich... Read more
29 Jun 2009
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Stakes Fairness, Educational Adequacy and Equal Opportunities in Education
Stakes Fairness, Educational Adequacy and Equal Opportunities in Education
Lesley Jacobs, Professor of Law & Society and Director of the York Centre for Public Policy & Law at York Univer... Read more
29 Jun 2009
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Gloomy Prospect Wins
Gloomy Prospect Wins
Despite large samples, genome wide association studies can only detect 2-3% of the genetic component of height, which is... Read more
6 Oct 2008
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Ranked #13
Campaign Ethics
Campaign Ethics
A leading proponent of an institutional approach to political ethics, Dennis Thompson discusses campaign ethics in the m... Read more
30 Jun 2008
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All Animals Are Equal - But in What Sense of Equality?
All Animals Are Equal - But in What Sense of Equality?
In Animal Liberation, a book sometimes credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, Peter Singer argued tha... Read more
12 May 2008
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The Ethics of Social Networking
The Ethics of Social Networking
This panel examines a host of ethical and social concerns generated by the evolving culture of social networking, partic... Read more
7 Apr 2008
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