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Passion Is Not Payment: Why Creatives and Intellectuals Deserve Decent Pay

By On 22 July 2012
LAST week I tweeted about unpaid internships, free blogging, and the general idea that people in creative or social service jobs should work for the love of what their doing rather than (not in addition to) decent pay and benefits. My tweets got a really great response and generated a lot of really interesting conversation. [...]
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Why I Am (Possibly) a Humanist

By On 21 May 2010

An ambivalent, existential answer to the question, “Why are you a humanist?”

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Why Harvard’s Top Administrators Should Take a Pay Cut

By On 15 July 2009

An argument for why Harvard University’s top administration should take voluntary pay cuts in the face of massive staff layoffs.

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“Now, Kalamas:” A Sermon on the Kalama Sutta

By On 1 July 2009

“How do we sort out the truth?”

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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in an Economic Crises: An Open Letter to the Harvard Divinity School Community

By On 19 June 2009

In the face of layoffs and potential layoffs, student at Harvard University in general and Harvard Divinity School in particular have a moral responsibility to cut back on luxuries so that others may keep their jobs.

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