Topic: Peace and Justice Archive

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      	THE progressive reformer and eminent jurist Louis D. Brandeis once said, “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” Brandeis lived at a time when enormous disparities between ...

    Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself. – NYTimes.com

    THE progressive reformer and eminent jurist Louis D. Brandeis once said, “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” Brandeis lived at a time when enormous disparities between ...

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      	To celebrate Bank Transfer Day, I sat down with Stanford Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Law Joshua Cohen to discuss how political philosopher John Rawls might view the Occupy Wall Street movement. The late Rawls, a Harvard profe...

    A discussion of John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice, on Occupy Wall Street

    To celebrate Bank Transfer Day, I sat down with Stanford Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Law Joshua Cohen to discuss how political philosopher John Rawls might view the Occupy Wall Street movement. The late Rawls, a Harvard profe...

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      	Visualization of the scale of money value.

    xkcd: Money Chart

    Visualization of the scale of money value.

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      	Who are we?
We are philosophy professors, lecturers, adjuncts, and graduate students, and we are the 99%.

    Occupy Philosophy

    Who are we? We are philosophy professors, lecturers, adjuncts, and graduate students, and we are the 99%.

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