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Video: “Poverty, Culture, and Justice,” @ Purdue U

[featured-image link=”http://ericthomasweber.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Capture-FromPurdueTalk-022016.jpg” link_single=”http://ericthomasweber.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Capture-FromPurdueTalk-022016.jpg” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”This is a screen capture from my talk at Purdue University in February of 2016.”] I’ve posted a number of recordings of interviews and talks I’ve given on Uniting Mississippi. This talk is on my next project, which is still in progress. The book is titled A Culture of Justice. One of the…

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Video: US Judge Carlton Reeves on “Race and Moral Leadership”

Now that I’m finally catching up with my grant reporting obligations, I’m returning to work from October of 2015. We snagged some nice pictures of Judge Reeves while he was here and we recorded the video of the open forum discussion we held. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves of Mississippi’s southern district caught my attention…

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Videoed Talk on ‘Uniting Mississippi’ at USM

I had a great time at the University of Southern Mississippi on Friday, January 29th. After a fun interview on WDAM TV in Hattiesburg, MS, I headed over to the new Liberal Arts Building on campus, which is beautiful. Dr. Sam Bruton in the Philosophy and Religion department at USM organizes the Philosophical Fridays program, which…

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Fun Interview on WDAM TV

I had a delightful time in Hattiesburg, MS this January. My first stop while in town was at WDAM TV’s studio for the Midday News on Channel 7. I had the great pleasure of talking with Miranda Beard, who invited me to tell people about Uniting Mississippi and who announced my talk at the University of…

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TV Interview and Talk at USM

I’m looking forward to meeting the folks at WDAM in Hattiesburg, MS, on Friday, January 29th for an interview about Uniting Mississippi: Democracy and Leadership in the South. I’ll be on live at around noon. I’ll post a clip of the interview as soon after it as I can. That same day (Friday), I’ll next head…

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Reader Email from Iran, and My Reply

[featured-image link=”http://etweber.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2016/01/6-DSC_0808-FB.jpg” link_single=”http://etweber.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2016/01/6-DSC_0808-FB.jpg” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Weber answering emails at his desk in 2011.”] I received a reader email from Iran in the last few weeks. I’ve been swamped and hadn’t had a chance to respond until now. I’m still swamped, catching up, but I thought it might be fun to post the question and my reply here….

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Interview on BAM South’s Midlife Criss podcast

[featured-image link=”bamsouth.com/category/podcast/” link_single=”bamsouth.com/category/podcast/” single_newwindow=”true” alt=”Photo of a microphone in front of a soundboard.”] I had a great time talking with Jack Criss on BAM South’s Midlife Criss podcast. The interview will soon be up on BAM South’s site, but for now Jack’s posted the interview on Sound Cloud. The player is here below. Jack is…

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“Justice as an Evolving Regulative Ideal”

[featured-image link=”http://www.pragmatismtoday.eu/winter2015/10%20Weber.pdf” link_single=”http://www.pragmatismtoday.eu/winter2015/10%20Weber.pdf” single_newwindow=”true” alt=”Photo of the top of my paper, which links to the PDF file on the journal’s Web site.”] I’m happy to announced that my latest paper, as of December 2015, has been published in Pragmatism Today, the peer-reviewed journal of the Central-European Pragmatist Forum. This paper is a step in the larger project…

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Top Tweets and Highlights of 2015 – My First Storify

[featured-image link=”https://storify.com/erictweber/getting-started” link_single=”https://storify.com/erictweber/getting-started” single_newwindow=”true” alt=”This is a photo of my first piece published on The USA Today Web site, ‘Reciprocal Goodwill Is Answer to Flag Issue,’ which links to my Storify page for my ‘Top Tweets & Highlights of 2015.’”] I’ve made my first Storify post, which I used to gather some of the big…

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Designs on Kids and Culture: Cartoons

While I have been writing A Culture of Justice, so many examples have come up to illustrate what I’m concerned about. The latest is from Charlie Brown. At the same time, it’s true that culture is a funny thing to think about when it comes to justice. When I first read Plato’s Republic, I found it so…

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