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(1) Michael Sandel: "Looking back at the last four decades, it’s clear that the divide between winners and losers has been deepened, poisoning our politics and driving us apart. This has partly to do with deepening inequality of income and wealth. But it’s about more than that. It has to do with the fact that those who landed on top came to believe that their success was their own doing, the measure of their merit — and by implication that those left behind had no one to blame but themselves."

(2) Karen FIscher: "Faculty members face tough choices teaching in newly global virtual classrooms: Do they change their courses to eliminate potentially contentious topics, or create two sets of materials, one for students in the United States, another for those abroad? Or do they stick with their original lesson plans, potentially putting their students at risk? Do they say to students, Sorry, this class is off-limits if you’re studying from China?"

(3) Half the writers on the Booker prize shortlist hold Masters degrees in Creative Writing. 

(4) "Concern for a person’s health – or respect for their death – should not suppress an honest discussion about their own conduct."