Kester Brewin

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  • The Limits of the Market | The Public Good

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    An excellent discussion starter here from Michael Sandel (The BBC’s 2009 Reith Lecturer) on the limits of the market. In it he discusses what should and should not be sold, raising some very interesting questions about surrogate pregnancy, prostitution and hard labour. His point is made best, I feel, in relation to war: would it…

  • New MA at Kings

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    Kings College have a new MA which they wondered if I’d be happy to flag up, which I am. It’s in ‘Politics, Theology and Faith-Based Organisations’, and you can read more about it in the doc attached below.

  • Wise Traveller…

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    Just out is this set of three books of reflections, to which I contributed 8 or 9 pieces. Nice thoughts for the journey to pop in and out of. Here’s one I submitted for book titled ‘Loss‘ Fruit I want to change the fruits of my labours. When someone says ‘Apple’, I shouldn’t want sleek…

  • Jesus, The Guantanamo Years

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    “From an American security point of view, it’s not that reassuring to find a single male Palestinian with no hand luggage, traveling alone. I’m guessing Mossad has a file on me. It probably says I’m a bit of a troublemaker, and it almost definitely says I’m lying about who my real father is.” Abie Philbin…

  • Dave Eggers | Valentino Achak Deng | Sudan

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    I went to hear Dave Eggers in conversation with Valentino Achak Deng at the ICA this evening. It was wonderful, moving and sad and funny. Deng was one of the Lost Boys in Sudan. After his town was pillaged by militias, he got separated from his family and joined 4000 or so other young boys…

  • Parasitic, Aggressive Blogs?

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    Thanks to Ben for the link: “Blogs,” [Oliver Kamm] wrote, “typically do not add to the available stock of commentary: they are purely parasitic on the stories and opinions that traditional media provide.” In The Guardian, Jonathan Freedland pointed out that the abusive, vitriolic nature of many blogs had turned the blogosphere into a “claustrophobic…