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	<link>http://polemarchus.net</link>
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		<title>Law without ethics?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Norwegian weekly newspaper Morgenbladet brings a thought-provoking piece this week by professor Hans Petter Graver, dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. In a recent book by novelist Kjartan Fløgstad, the way the law profession went into the service of Nazi Germany is put in a very bad light.
Professor Graver, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemarchus.net/2010/02/law-without-ethics/</link>
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		<title>Anwar Ibrahim on trial for sodomy again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was today back in the courtroom for trial on charges of sodomy, a very serious offense in the Muslim-dominated Malaysia. The prosecution claims to have rock sure technical evidence, Anwar and his supporters claim this is a high-level government conspiracy to discredit the opposition movement. Whatever the truth, both sides [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemarchus.net/2010/02/anwar-ibrahim-on-trial-for-sodomy-again/</link>
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		<title>Race &#8211; an outdated concept?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US is in an uproar over the inclusion of the word "negro" in a national census. Is race even a relevant parameter anymore? Does it do more harm than good?]]></description>
		<link>http://polemarchus.net/2010/01/race-an-outdated-concept/</link>
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		<title>The Massachusetts mess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats may lose their supermajority in the Senate. A serious problem for health reform. Several bloggers have opinions on what this may signal that way or the other, particularly since this is a traditionally Democratic seat. Dan Drezner has an interesting take on the real reason why the race has suddenly gotten interesting: Both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemarchus.net/2010/01/the-massachusetts-mess/</link>
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		<title>The blogosphere: Neither Hayek nor Habermas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across an interesting article by Cass Sunstein about the blogosphere and whether or not it adheres to the ideals of Hayek's information market or Habermas' public sphere. ]]></description>
		<link>http://polemarchus.net/2010/01/the-blogosphere-neither-hayek-nor-habermas/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s international relations theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Drezner&#8217;s blog at Foreign Policy has a nice blog post about the international relations theory of Obama&#8217;s Nobel speech. As a treasure trove for IR lecturers, he claims to have seen clear traces of both Realism, Neoliberal institutionalism, Social construcivism, Democratic peace theory, Feminist IR theory and Human security theory. Personally, I can spot a few of those, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemarchus.net/2009/12/obamas-international-relations-theory/</link>
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		<title>Does lack of rhetorical skills make you less deliberative?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a master thesis about political deliberation, and I&#8217;m interested in finding a good method for measuring and evaluating the level of deliberation in a discussion. Two current methods I&#8217;ve been looking into, the Discourse Quality Index and pragma-dialectics, both seem to share the same validity problem: They register low rhetorical or logical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemarchus.net/2009/11/does-lack-of-rhetorical-skills-make-you-less-deliberative/</link>
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		<title>Not an iota!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In reading social science litterature over the last few days, I&#8217;ve come across the use of the word iota several times. Usually used in the expression &#8220;not an iota&#8221;, but occasionally as &#8220;there may be an iota of&#8230;&#8221; This got me pondering what iota really means. I assumed it is an expression that comes from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemarchus.net/2009/11/not-an-iota/</link>
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		<title>Nonsensical boycott uproar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a political expression by 34 out of 2700 academic staff. Nothing more. Although a majority probably supports taking a stand against Israeli human rights offences, there is no substantial support for a boycott. The "friends of Israel" have however once again done a good job of alienating even more of those interested in working for true dialogue.]]></description>
		<link>http://polemarchus.net/2009/11/nonsensical-boycott-uproar/</link>
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		<title>On Fox and Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily beast brings a very interesting editorial piece about the struggle between Obama&#8217;s administration and Fox News. John Bathcelor points out that Fox isn&#8217;t primarily a news network, it&#8217;s an entertainment network that makes money from advertising. And they&#8217;re doing that very well right now:

None of what goes on in the evening has anything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemarchus.net/2009/10/on-fox-and-obama/</link>
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