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Is the role of the NCAA to help students succeed through sports, or to garner money for educational institutions? With the high drop-out rate of NC...
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- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
Benefits from altruism include approval, enhanced image, and neural stimulation--feeling good. Yet if you act selfishly you will have more resource...
- Added: May 19, 2010
- Length: 02:00
What do you think maximizes individual benefits in the marketplace? Is it cut throat competition or altruistic norms of fairness and trust? Can you...
- Added: May 19, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Can basic income grants work for those living in extreme poverty? Or are grants discouraging people from taking individual responsibility?
- Added: May 19, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Is Goldman Sachs responsible for the current financial crisis in Greece? Or should Greek politicians who knew of Goldman's practices be blamed for ...
- Added: May 19, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Does the quest for high television ratings deter Olympic sportscasters from focusing on strategies and techniques of sports? Should Olympic coverag...
- Added: May 19, 2010
- Length: 02:00
One goal of public diplomacy is to create allies inside other states through education programs or cultural exchanges. Should this be viewed as enr...
- Added: May 19, 2010
- Length: 02:00
How do we balance the short-term interests at stake in the energy debate with our long-term needs?
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Is U.S. foreign policy determined by individual policy-makers and core values, or by external threats and domestic pressures?
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Has pluralism in America emphasized private interest over public good? Does the market for ideas need more supervision, or should the market rule?
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 02:00
For President Obama, what is the relation between religion and politics?
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 02:00
America's global future seems in doubt with a frozen political process, mountains of debt, stagnant exports, global military commitments, and less ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 02:00
The Eurasia Group identified ten top global risks for business this year, which should be understood not just as political and economic, but also a...
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Is climate change a common public burden, or should individuals make their own choices? Globally do modernized countries have an obligation to deve...
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- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Are we responsible for the well-being of children around the globe, millions of whom die every year from preventable causes? Or does charity begin ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
In a difficult and protracted war democracies may accept a draw due to a lack of public support. If you were caught between bowing to public opinio...
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Within society there seems to be a general public disdain for excess and a private commitment to excess. Should there be formal or informal standar...
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
What is the U.S. role in the world? There are two extremes. Being an example, or employing forceful U.S. engagement and being a moral champion. Nei...
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Private contractors bring important skills to tasks outside the capability or mission of military personnel, but they are not accountable to the go...
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
When balancing life's complex tensions, how do you know when you've crossed a line?
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
How are Haitians who live outside of the devastated country learning about the fate of their loved ones? And how are they coping? Numa Perrier, a H...
- Added: Jan 27, 2010
- Length: 30:00
When war is a foreign insurgency, balancing human risks and possibility of success is a fundamental ethical dilemma for leaders. What do you think ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2009
- Length: 02:00
When choosing Nobel Peace Prize winners, should the Nobel Committee think of the future, using the Nobel's prestige to encourage peace-making? Or s...
- Added: Nov 13, 2009
- Length: 01:30
By 2050 some estimate that climate change will displace 150 million people, but the displaced won't qualify as refugees under international law. Wh...
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- Added: Nov 13, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Should cultural treasures, acquired under dubious circumstances, be returned to their places of origin?
- Added: Nov 13, 2009
- Length: 01:30