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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Pluralism</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
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		<title>From the NYRB: How Muslims Made Europe</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/399</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Appiah&#8217;s NYRB article:
How Muslims Made Europe - The New York Review of Books
[...]
Later Christian historians assigned to the Battle of Poitiers an epochal significance. Gibbon remarked that if the Moors had covered again the distance they had traveled from Gibraltar, they could have reached Poland or the Scottish Highlands. Perhaps, he thought, if &#8216;Abd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cliched quotes: the opiate of the ignorant?</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/312</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/312#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 19:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pluralism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Real Left blogger and Unrepentant Marxist Louis Proyect provides, as part of a thoughtful eulogy, the full context of Marx&#8217;s famous &#8220;Religion is the opium of the people&#8221; quote and the full quote that Louis provides gives us a much more insightful Marx, than today&#8217;s vulgar New Atheists who would gladly and smugly parrot the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Real Internet Left please stand up?</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/262</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/262#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A minor skirmish has broken out in Bloglandia between the left purists and the &#8220;netroots&#8221;. The opening salvo was fired by our good friend Max Sawicky, with this bit:
The &#8220;Internet Left&#8221; is a mostly brainless vacuum cleaner of donations for the Democratic Party.
Congratulations are first due to Max: in a world that lives on and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A den of vipers</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/239</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/239#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pluralism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scientism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times reports on a scientific forum at the Salk Institute titled &#8220;Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival&#8221;, consisting of the usual suspects such as Weinberg and Dawkins repeating their angry young scientist polemics, described aptly by one of the conference speakers:
A Free-for-All on Science and Religion - New York Times
[...]
By the third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obfuscations and Explanations</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/235</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/235#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[via BoingBoing]
The Dead Sea Scrolls it seems contain specifications for construction of latrines:
The Seattle Times: Nation &#38; World: Toilet evidence links Dead Sea Scrolls to sect
[...]
The Essenes are one of the few ancient groups whose toiletry practices were documented. The first century Jewish historian Josephus noted that members of the group normally went outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of Internationalised Domain Names</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/225</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/225#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pluralism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vint Cerf is making noises that IDN is a huge technical challenge:
&#8220;One of the most important aspects is for the user to make unambiguous references to every registered domain name.
&#8220;Historically this has been through a small subset of Latin characters.&#8221;
[...]
Mr Cerf said that in order for other scripts to be introduced into the domain name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science in a free society</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/191</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/191#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Pluralism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this blog post is an intentional reference to Paul Feyerabend, who would have been glad to read this bit of news:
BBC &#124; Public &#8216;needs to drive science&#8217;
A new project funded by the UK government aims to give the public a chance to drive science policy.
[ Link ]
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		<title>Pots, Kettles, Noses, Faces and Solidarity</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/23</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/23#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pluralism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Solidarity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sept 28, blogger extraordinaire Kos, wrote the following about the fairly large anti-war rally in DC (Sept 24, 2005):

Peace protests and the new media environment 
by kos
Wed Sep 28, 2005 at 10:47:17 AM PDT
I&#8217;ve been critical of peace protests in the past [...]. This time, however, I wasn&#8217;t feeling animosity for last week&#8217;s protests. [...]]]></description>
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