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	<title>The Sleepwalk of the West</title>
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	<description>By Stephan Fowler</description>
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		<title>Slavoj Zizek. WTF?</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/07/slavoj-zizek-wtf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When even the Telegraph gushes over a Marxist philosopher, you know he’s finally attained social utopia. Slavoj Zizek is everywhere, with his radical (or is it radically bemusing?) ideas. The end justifies the means; why have a messy proletarian revolution when book sales will get you there instead?]]></description>
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		<title>On Human Scale</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/06/on-ahuman-scale/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/06/on-ahuman-scale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civilisation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How big is the Good Society? What is human-scale - and are our cities within it? Success - as it prevails in the material urban mind - is a measure of one's ability to deny the city. There are various ways the rich do this: in secondary country houses; in pleasantly expensive tree-lined oases, in the "exclusive" (note its shameless literal meaning) silence of penthouses.]]></description>
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		<title>Party People</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/06/party-people/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/06/party-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do you get from a political party? A cocktail of top-notch beliefs that you can go right ahead and believe. The main pleasure to be had from your <em>prêt-a-croyer</em> values is to clap your hands repeatedly each time someone at a podium repeats one. I know this, having recently attended A New Hope – a conference on the future of the Labour party.]]></description>
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		<title>What Does It Mean To Be Educated?</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/05/what-does-it-mean-to-be-educated/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/05/what-does-it-mean-to-be-educated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 10:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Department Whose Name We Dare Not Speak has been restored to it's former purpose. Obscured under New Labour as The Department for Children, Schools and Families, it is again called The Department for Education - the first move by Michael Gove, the new UK Minister for Education. Does this mark the end of education as we have come to know it? Hopefully so.]]></description>
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		<title>Liberalism Will Eat Itself</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/05/liberalism-will-eat-tself/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/05/liberalism-will-eat-tself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 20:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civilisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The tenet of liberalism is freedom of the individual; everyone should be free to “be themselves”. Appealing - from the individual’s viewpoint. But whether it’s necessarily a basis for living together is less clear. What if your “being yourself” prevents my “being myself”? If your cultural norms imply a curb on my cultural norms, what does liberalism offer to help resolve our conflict?]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy: How Vulgar!</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/04/democracy-how-vulgar/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/04/democracy-how-vulgar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s fashionable to claim there is “no such thing” as democracy. The view ranges from the moderate complaint of paltry electoral choice to radical claims that we are utterly in the grip of dark and unaccounted powers. Cue everything from apathy to Chomsky-esque polemics about the “manufacture of consent”, capitalism’s “false consciousness”, etcetera. ]]></description>
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		<title>Types of Tolerance</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/03/types-of-tolerance/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/03/types-of-tolerance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been suggested to me that my writings express a certain lack of tolerance. This is, of course, entirely true. Why rail against something, unless you find it intolerable? Despite agreeing with such critics, I suspect we nonetheless have a different idea of what &#8220;tolerance&#8221; means, or how it comes about. Because a motive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Prophet of What?</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/03/a-prophet-of-what/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/03/a-prophet-of-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Decline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[French cinema is the high-visibility indicator of a great country&#8217;s cultural hara-kiri. Awards ceremonies are always fundamentally political, but in France they&#8217;re actually&#8230; fundamentalist. After winning at Cannes last years, the film A Prophet was fawned over at the Césars, with no less than nine awards. Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Left</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/02/nothing-left/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/02/nothing-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: Why does the Left like Communism, again? A: Because the stock market&#8217;s down. Joking apart, there&#8217;s also a selfish reason. The idea of Communism is so abstract now, so cleansed of reality, that it can be invoked at zero cost. It&#8217;s a faux-humble chat-up line with a double payoff: you get to look impeccably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Think Therefore I&#8230; Am In Court</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/02/i-think-therefore-i-am-in-court/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/02/i-think-therefore-i-am-in-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speech Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=3235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Socrates said that he would not have survived in public office, that anyone true to their morals would reach conflict there, and that there is no politician who is not morally compromised. They put him on trial for his impious observations. Then they put him to death. Even if you disagree with Geert Wilders&#8216; morals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cathedral of Worms</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/01/cathedral-of-worms/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/01/cathedral-of-worms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modernism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=3097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A vast office and retail building is rising next to St&#160;Paul&#8217;s&#160;Cathedral, set to &#8220;transform the City into a seven-day shopping and leisure destination with a difference&#8220;. A friend in the trade told me the story: The site was up for redevelopment (why? it looked grand as it was). Certain constraints apply around the Cathedral to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris Fashion: Weak</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/01/paris-fashion-weak/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/01/paris-fashion-weak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official! The stylists of the French Senate, after a protracted squabble over what should/shouldn&#8217;t be accepted as French fashion, have announced: Out: Burkas. In: Hair Shirts. Don&#8217;t bin your burka yet though; you can still wear it on the boulevards &#8211; it&#8217;s hipper than ever &#8211; only not on public transport or when picking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joy of Guilt</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/01/the-joy-of-guilt/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/01/the-joy-of-guilt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=2875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen Avatar, it&#8217;s a half-a-billion-dollar adaptation of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, where Mr Meek gets to be Mr Hero, kill Baddies, and get Big Chief&#8217;s ethnically-optimised uber-daughter into the sack. All in his sleep. Apart from being more visually stunning than anything you&#8217;ve ever seen, it&#8217;s nothing new. Except, many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BA in Equality and Bomb-Making</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/01/ba-in-equality-and-bomb-making/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2010/01/ba-in-equality-and-bomb-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Decline]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=2737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the US, the process whereby a hick church can become a Sunday school then &#8220;college&#8221; then &#8220;university&#8221; in only a few short years is trenchantly and hilariously documented in Paul Fussell&#8217;s Class: A Guide through the American Status System. An equivalent &#8211; only slightly less radical &#8211; change happened in the UK when technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun With Moral Vacuums</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/12/fun-with-moral-vacuums/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/12/fun-with-moral-vacuums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#8217;s moral relativism is epitomised by this joke on Radio 4&#8242;s The Now Show (iPlayler, 12:23): &#8220;What&#8217;s the difference between nuclear proliferation in Iran, and nuclear proliferation in the US?&#8221; (Prolonged silence.) &#8220;Exactly!&#8221; Oh, isn&#8217;t that good. Ha. Unbridled hilarity aside, what is the difference? Let&#8217;s see&#8230; one wants to use military might to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Comeback Kids</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/12/the-comeback-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/12/the-comeback-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Proselytism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The news these last few days seems to belong to our religious leaders and their wrestle for our souls. The Pope was dramatically thrown to the ground, but immediately bounced back. Muscling in on a defenceless position, the mighty Roman made a quick lunge for all those displaced by &#8220;hunger, intolerance or environmental degradation&#8221;. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Identities Out!</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/12/get-your-identities-out/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/12/get-your-identities-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patriotism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[France is the word&#8217;s most popular tourist destination. 80 million people visit annually; 25 million more than the second-ranking USA, 15 million more than France&#8217;s own population &#8211; who holiday in millions in their own country rather than go abroad, or have chosen to settle in France rather than in their country of origin. So&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights vs. Human Votes</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/human-rights-vs-human-votes/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/human-rights-vs-human-votes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=2352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When national will (especially a Swiss &#8220;legitimacy-rich&#8221; democratic one) clashes with trans-national will (especially a European &#8220;legitimacy-poor&#8221; undemocratic one), who should win? The answer seems transparently obvious; but the European project has never been too interested in transparency. (Witness the recent magical apparition of a new EU constitution and President. Or maybe I just mislaid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Child-King</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/the-child-king/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/the-child-king/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking of Cannes festival winners &#8211; and the politics they embody &#8211; last year&#8217;s Entre les Murs (The Class) is another example of the agendas lurking in our culture, in this case French but more generally Western. The ideas behind the film are best illustrated by the perennial debate &#8211; or its paucity &#8211; over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mack the Knife</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/mack-the-knife/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/mack-the-knife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allan Bloom traces the popular enthusiasm for criminality to the 19th century German philosophers. Culturally &#8211; according to him &#8211; the new appetite hits the mainstream with &#8220;Mack the Knife&#8221; from Brecht&#8217;s and Weill&#8217;s The Threepenny Opera, in 1928 Weimar Germany. It was the first time the bourgeoisie could blithely &#8211; almost compulsively &#8211; sing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Café Society, Human Society</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/cafe-society-human-society/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/cafe-society-human-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week a friend and I chatted with two pleasant American women for about an hour, in a café. Afterwards he &#8211; an American himself &#8211; turned to me and, pointing to where one of the women had sat, asked if I realised who she was. I said no. He said: &#8220;Monica Lewinsky.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bogus Power Seekers</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/bogus-power-seekers/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/bogus-power-seekers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=2005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The impact on the political discourse of the Nick-Griffin-on-Question-Time debacle was manifest even before the programme was over. Late in &#8211; and leaving the BNP leader entirely out of it &#8211; the ministers of the main parties launched into an impromptu cat-fight over which party had the &#8220;best grip&#8221; on immigration. Instead of &#8220;celebrating diversity&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgiving It All Away</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/forgiving-it-all-away/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/forgiving-it-all-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Interfaith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Coventry Cathedral is one of those rare examples of successful Modernism, whose appeal transcends architectural fashion. Like another successful example &#8211; the Barbican Estate &#8211; it rose from the devastation of the German Luftwaffe, and now overlooks its previous incarnation, a crumbling, unrestored symbol of 20th Century cataclysm. As a result of this traumatic history, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God(s) Help Us</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/gods-help-us-2/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/gods-help-us-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interfaith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaders from Baha&#8217;ism, Buddhism, Christianity, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Shintoism and Sikhism gathered at Windsor Castle this week to save the planet. Most pressingly: When people from nine faiths with special dietary requirements visit for a banquet, what should be on the menu? That is the dilemma facing the Royal Family as Windsor Castle hosts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthropology: Don&#8217;t Try It At Home</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/anthropology-dont-try-it-at-home/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/anthropology-dont-try-it-at-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written these last few days on Claude Lévi-Strauss. Le Monde devoted four pages to the Grandfather of Anthropology, who has died aged 100. In an odd irony &#8211; after reams of praise for his insights into ethnographic diversity and the rich taxonomy of humankind &#8211; an unrelated article in the same paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonaparte Was A Tiny Minority</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/bonaparte-was-a-tiny-minority/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/11/bonaparte-was-a-tiny-minority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Nature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I respect Anjem Choudary. You basically know where you are with him. He&#8217;s not a Politician &#8211; i.e. someone who knows that they don&#8217;t mean what they say. Nor is he a Moderate &#8211; someone who doesn&#8217;t know that they don&#8217;t really mean what they say. Choudary, I think, means exactly what he says. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stalin Had Faith</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/stalin-had-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/stalin-had-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marxism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Witness &#8211; the autobiography of Whittaker Chambers’ &#8211; is the dramatic story of a Dostoevskian “lesser man” seeking redemption through suffering and rigorous moral integrity. It is a verbose but remarkable book, centering on his personal pendulum-swing from a tortured, austere, and passionately felt Communism &#8211; towards an equally tortured, austere, and passionately felt Christianity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanny’s in a State</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/nannys-in-a-state/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/nannys-in-a-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civilisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patriotism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the British National Party edges ever further into our dimmed conscience, the political and media classes are in a rare nervous state. For there&#8217;s something big lurking beneath the easy abuse, something hidden in the righteous hand-wringing. The real question is this: what do we mean by national? Kipling wrote: Winds of the World, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Horses</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/dead-horse/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/dead-horse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Pop Life exhibition at Tate Modern: Andy Warhol claimed &#8220;Good business is the best art.&#8221; Tate Modern brings together artists from the 1980s onwards who have embraced commerce and the mass media to build their own &#8216;brands&#8217;. Hmm. I was under the misconception that &#8220;good business&#8221; was Coke, Microsoft, De Beers, Haliburton, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destruction is Cool. Harvesting isn&#8217;t.</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/destruction-is-cool-harvesting-isnt/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/destruction-is-cool-harvesting-isnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnocentrism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Algeria took a step towards qualifying for next year&#8217;s World Cup with a 3-1 win over Rwanda. Ergo, Paris must be smashed up. I shot this about 50 metres from our flat: All in all, it was a very pleasant Sunday evening in the locality. Ruined only by the concurrent Montmartre grape harvest festival &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronic Diversity Syndrome</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/chronic-diversity-syndrome/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/chronic-diversity-syndrome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Minorities get blamed for everything. They even get blamed for being themselves; for preferring their own culture. The criticism itself is made by those &#8211; claiming various degrees of indigenous status &#8211; who prefer their own culture, as perceived to have prevailed before the latter minorities threatened it. A third group has yet another preference, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeping Gods</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/sleeping-gods/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/sleeping-gods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An FT article on Islam in France argues that a demographic &#8220;Eurabia&#8221; outcome is unlikely. I agree. However, the article is very optimistic about the piety of the average French Muslim, as well as the societal impact of multi-faith &#8220;mélange&#8221; (mix). On the first point, it seems to think that the 15 to 20 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>500 Pages Of Nothing</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/500-pages-of-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/500-pages-of-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I cracked. I just had to do it. Desperate, to cling to something tangible, to some proof that it hadn&#8217;t been a demonic prank, or glimpse into the echoing abyss&#8230; I bought the catalogue for the Voids exhibition. Now the 500 page black hole sits there on my table, inert, ignoring me. Gingerly approaching the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interfaith Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/09/interfaith-dialogue/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/09/interfaith-dialogue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Interfaith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speech Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Law exists to send a clear message. Crime is Crime. And yet, there will always be people who simply have to break the rules. The Public Order Act should have made it quite clear to us all that &#8220;interfaith dialogue&#8221; is a no-no. But the Vogelenzangs &#8211; a couple who run a Liverpool hotel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fallacy of The Centre</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/09/the-fallacy-of-the-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/09/the-fallacy-of-the-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marxism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine two people, each stood on the opposite banks of a river. Where then is the &#8220;average&#8221; of their positions? It&#8217;s midstream &#8211; the deep water. &#8220;Centrist&#8221; politics, as we know it today, treads water in such currents. So-called centrist governments are nothing of the sort. They are actually a remarkable co-existence of radically opposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Word Becomes Flesh</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/09/the-word-becomes-flesh/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/09/the-word-becomes-flesh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interfaith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Definitions of race range from those who say it does not exist – that it&#8217;s purely a social construct – to those who insist it has a biological warrant. All sorts of semantic problems arise, let alone political ones: if there is no such thing as race, what does “diversity” mean? If on the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog Marxism</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/08/dog-marxism/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/08/dog-marxism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marxism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=1033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Has there been a Marxist critique of dogs? Hopefully not. Any dog trainer will tell you that dogs are bourgeois wolves. Their wolf-nature remains, barely hidden below a reluctant concession to social norms, tenuously imposed by human authority. The hunter instinct, the killer bite, is still there. They chase anything that moves. Look at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Am Not A Pixel</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/08/i-am-not-a-pixel/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/08/i-am-not-a-pixel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=930</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remarkable &#8220;morale images&#8221; have been published, taken by an English photographer after the war in 1918. The vast perspective-compensated tableaux required up to 30,000 newly returned US servicemen, each acting as a black &#8211; or white &#8211; dot. They are stunning, humbling photographs. And yet&#8230; isn&#8217;t there always the hint of something a little terrifying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waves of Faith</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/waves-of-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/waves-of-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civilisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Al Fath Mosque on Rue des Poissonniers in Paris receives thousands for Friday prayer, way beyond its capacity. The surrounding streets are entirely given over to worshippers. Around the corner is the vast church of St Bernard de la Chapelle, whose doors appear to be permanently padlocked. Amongst local proposals is that of converting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom vs. Freedom</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/freedom-vs-freedom-2/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/freedom-vs-freedom-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reason]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Allan Bloom wrote in 1987: Freedom of thought and freedom of speech were proposed in theory, and in the practise of serious political reformers, in order to encourage the still voice of reason in a world that had always been dominated by fanaticisms and interests. How the freedom of thought and speech came to mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camille Paglia</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/camille-paglia/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/camille-paglia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t paid attention to Camille Paglia for about fifteen years. I suppose I had the impression she was a cultural-theory loud-mouth that one could ignore without peril. Mind you, I don&#8217;t really watch television. Anyway, I&#8217;m wrong. These three short clips of her speaking on the degradation of academic literary studies spurred me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirituality via Slaughter</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/the-spirituallity-of-slaughter/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/the-spirituallity-of-slaughter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Independent reports that Government advisers have said religious slaughter techniques practised by Jews and Muslims are cruel and should be ended. (They&#8217;re referring to animals, BTW.) How about this for an oxymoron: [Religious groups] are granted an exemption to the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995. So much for the meek inheriting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#039;t Define What You Can&#039;t&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/you-cant-define-god-so-stop-doing-so/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/you-cant-define-god-so-stop-doing-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a common position of moderates that you can’t define what God is (e.g. Karen Armstrong near 17:10 in this interview). It seems plausible and consistent for a non-believer to say the gods are undefinable or ill-defined, or to define gods that they don&#8217;t believe in. But I can think of at least three problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Kind of Enlightenment</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/the-wrong-kind-of-enlightenment/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/the-wrong-kind-of-enlightenment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Enlightenment broke the shackles of arbitrary theocratic rule, so that reason might be liberated and, hopefully, lead to a universal flourishing of the good life. Speech &#8211; the expression of philosophic thought &#8211; had to be set free. The intention was high, noble. At any rate, it wasn&#8217;t a prescription of respect for every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dutch Knack for Apartheid</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/the-dutch-gift-for-apartheid/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/the-dutch-gift-for-apartheid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dutch society was once very segregated. Guess, until when, the following was the case: &#8230; each of the four &#8220;pillars&#8221; had its own mini-society within the greather whole of Dutch society. Protestant people voted for a Protestant party, read Protestant newspapers, watched the Protestant broadcasts &#8230; Mixed marriages were frowned upon, and Catholic bishops and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of the Ride</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/end-of-the-ride/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/end-of-the-ride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civilisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decline]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A headline to stop you in your tracks: US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive. The article is mostly about Flint &#8211; the poorest city on the US: &#8220;The obsession with growth is sadly a very American thing. Across the US, there&#8217;s an assumption that all development is good, that if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Labour&#039;s nemesis: the BNP</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/new-labour-deserves-the-bnp/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/new-labour-deserves-the-bnp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Class]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The cost of liberal democracy/capitalism is that there are economic losers. &#8220;Old&#8221; Labour was about tackling class, i.e. the injustice of grossly unequal income distributions. Even if Socialism&#8217;s not your thing, there&#8217;s still no reason why capitalism can&#8217;t be forced to accept corrective or attenuating measures such as social safety nets, meaningful regulation, exponentially progressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Secularism Coherent?</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/secularism/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/secularism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The separation of church and state sounds good to me. So does the end of all suffering, war, inequality … etcetera. Oh well. Back in reality, I’m not so optimistic. Unlike some of the atheist authors &#8211; whom otherwise I generally agree with &#8211; I don’t think a world without politically-impacting religion is worth talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Theology</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/public-theology/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/public-theology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Myth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Theos, the Christian “public theology think tank”, has published yet another survey. They are quite keen on this radically democratic method of establishing truth. Here they seem to want to imply &#8211; while avoiding the risks of actually saying so &#8211; that because more people believe in ghosts than did so in the 1950’s, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BNP Celebrates Diversity. Oops!</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/do-two-racisms-make-a-right/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/do-two-racisms-make-a-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnocentrism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephanfowler.com/?p=457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An anti-racist stance has to be consistent, otherwise it&#8217;s just&#8230; more racism. When I went on Anti-Nazi League marches with my schoolmates, the hope (as I understood it in my hormonally left-wing state) was for a colour-blind world of equal treatment and opportunity. All racial differentiation was bad. That was before Diversity(TM). Now, race &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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