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		<title>Soccer Philosophy</title>
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Heraclitus a little flick, here he comes on the far post, Socrates is there, Socrates heads it in! Socrates has scored! The Greeks are going mad, the Greeks are going mad. Socrates scores, got a beautiful cross from Archimedes. The Germans are disputing it. Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physics Envy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The quantitative aspirations of economists and financial analysts have for many years been based on the belief that it should be possible to build models of economic systems—and financial markets in particular—that are as predictive as those in physics. While this perspective has led to a number of important breakthroughs in economics, “physics envy” has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Innocence Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviewer: I think many Americans have this perception that our legal system is basically sound and trustworthy, and that wrongful convictions are anomalous. How right or wrong is that perception? To what extent do the 258 wrongful convictions to date reflect the scope of the problem?
Peter Neufeld: The 258 figure is unquestionably just the tip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political and Economic Systems</title>
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State/Government: A legitimized, territorial monopoly on deciding who can use force and coercion.
Monarchy: The government is ruled by an individual.
Democracy: The government is ruled directly or indirectly by the people.
Republic: Democracy where the people represent themselves through other people.
Capitalism: Private property.
Socialism: Some private property. The government is entitled to X% of the products of society [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War is the Health of the State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randolph Bourne wrote The State during World War I. He discusses the role of war in history and the squashing of speech in the United States (the Espionage Act of 1917 convicted hundreds of people for up to 20 to 25 years for simply speaking against military recruitment, most famously Eugene Debs). The Espionage Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arguments of Efficiency/Pragmatism vs. Morality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For three main reasons, freedom can never be won by arguing for economic efficiency. Such efficiency is always debatable, inevitably rests on technical details obscure to most people, and is one of the topics most subject to government misinformation. In Canada, arguing that a free market will produce lower costs in health care, for instance, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schizoidboy.com/the-arguments-of-efficiency-pragmatism.html</link>
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		<title>Animation of Communist Countries over time</title>
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http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/communis.htm
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		<title>Differences in Life Expectancy: East &amp; West Germany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While West Germany (more capitalistic) had a pretty constant rate of growth in life expectancy, after about 25 years, East Germany (more communistic) took a dive and didn&#8217;t recover until unification in 1990 (at which point it recovered dramatically):

Mortality Tempo Adjustment: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations, Marc Luy, Institute for Sociology and Demography, University of Rostock, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shortages in Socialism partly caused by Bribery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Andrei Shleifer is an economist at Harvard:
The single most pervasive phenomenon in socialist countries is shortage of goods. Consumer goods ranging from necessities, such as food, to luxuries, such as cars and gold, as well as many intermediate inputs, are typically in short supply.
Standard explanations of shortages of goods under socialism are not completely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schizoidboy.com/shortages-in-socialism-and-bribery.html</link>
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		<title>Cambodia, Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge, and Agrarian Communism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States&#8217; secret and illegal bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War killed approximately 150,000 Cambodians, started not under Nixon but under Lyndon Johnson (Laos was also secretly bombed). This led to a coup d&#8217;etat by the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, an agrarian communist movement that tried to realize socialism in its [...]]]></description>
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