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		<title>Ayn Rand: goddess of the market</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was born Alisa Rosenbaum, the eldest daughter in a haute-bourgeois Russian Jewish family that was ruined by the 1918 revolution. When she came to the United States in 1926, she reinvented herself as Ayn Rand, charismatic philosopher and novelist who inspired a generation of rebels and free-market theorists.
Historian Jennifer Burns, author of the new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2286&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Americans hate government</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ronald Reagan said in 1981 &#8220;government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,&#8221; he was tapping into a long history of American suspicion of government.
UCLA political science professor Brian Walker has a theory about where that suspicion came from. He lays out his ideas in the Oct. 10 lecture (download [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2192&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Treasure trove of courses at UCSD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of California San Diego is offering a record 63 courses available for free download on its podcast website this quarter, enough to fill your mp3 player for months to come. But carpe diem, seize the day. Most of these riches will only stay on the website until the end of the quarter (roughly mid-December), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2097&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Justice course from Harvard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably seen the Socratic method at work in the give-and-take of a small classroom. The teacher asks provocative questions and then synthesizes the responses into new insights. It&#8217;s a great way to learn and think about complicated problems.
But can this method worked in a large lecture hall with thousands of students? Harvard political philosopher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2074&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time to grab summer courses at UCSD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to check out the UCSD podcast website again, and quickly grab any courses that tickle your fancy, before UCSD erases them.
There are 12 courses from the recently ended Summer Session I, and Summer Session II is underway, with 8 courses.
I especially recommend Victor Magagna&#8217;s courses, East Asian Political Thought (feed) and Politics and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1988&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Game of Life&#8217; and the 1960s Counterculture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lived through the late 1960s as a student at UC Berkeley, the epicenter of the counterculture and radical chic. And yet somehow I missed the grand intellectual underpinnings of hippie-dom and the Summer of Love.  (The people I knew who championed &#8220;People&#8217;s Park&#8221; and wore dashikis were mainly the lazy kids who&#8217;d rather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1965&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machiavelli: not such a bad guy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For almost 500 years Niccolò Machiavelli and his treatise, The Prince, have gotten some pretty bad press. In the popular imagination, Machiavelli is synonymous with the amoral, ruthless pursuit of power.
But seen up close, The Prince is actually much more nuanced and interesting than its popular caricature would suggest. That&#8217;s the main take-home lesson of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1925&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jean-Jacques Rousseau: enemy of liberty</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/jean-jacques-rousseau-enemy-of-liberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the tormented genius whose ideas helped inspire the French Revolution, loved liberty above all else. Yet Rousseau&#8217;s work has justified some of the worst tyrants in history from Napoleon to Hitler and Stalin. So argues Isaiah Berlin, the 20th-century philosopher and historian of ideas in his 1952 lecture, Freedom and its Betrayal: Jean-Jacques [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1853&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Isaiah Berlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Isaiah Berlin&#8217;s birth, Oxford University has posted four of the famous philosopher&#8217;s broadcast lectures on the web. Entitled Isaiah Berlin Centenary (iTunes, feed), the lectures date from the 1950s, when Berlin was reknowned as a historian of ideas and as an eloquent foe of totalitarianism.
For more on Berlin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1842&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pondering a leap of faith</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/pondering-a-leap-of-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been following UC Berkeley Professor Ron Hendel&#8217;s excellent course The Bible in Western Culture (feed), you know that he&#8217;s been looking at understandings of the Bible, beginning in ancient times and moving through the Middle Ages into modernity. In the last couple of weeks we watched as Enlightenment thinkers like Spinoza and Herder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1770&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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