Douglas MacKay
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy; Core Faculty Member, Center for Bioethics; UNC-Chapel Hill
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Social Egalitarianism and the Private Sponsorship of Refugees - Lim - - Journal of Social Philosophy - Wiley Online Library
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Douglas MacKay
Looking forward to reading this paper by Desiree Lim, "Social Egalitarianism and the Private Sponsorship of Refugees." Has a focus on Canadian policy.
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Basic Income, Cash Transfers, and Welfare State Paternalism - MacKay - - Journal of Political Philosophy - Wiley Online Library
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Douglas MacKay
New pub at the Journal of Political Philosophy, "Basic Income, Cash Transfers, and Welfare State Paternalism." Very grateful to reviewers for excellent feedback on this one.
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Trump’s crackdown hits legal immigrants
The president's posture on illegal immigration has had a chilling effect on legal migrant flows.
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Douglas MacKay
New issue of @AJOB is out, featuring target article by Leah Pierson and Joseph Millum, "Health Research Priority Setting: The Duties of Individual Funders" and OPCs by myself, Nancy Jecker, Rebecca Dresser, David Resnik, Bridget Pratt and @ahyder1.
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Vol 14 No 1 (2018): Volume XIV, Issue 1 | Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
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Douglas MacKay
New pub, "Immigrant Selection, Health Requirements, and Disability Discrimination," at Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Also articles on Disability and Opportunity by Andrew Shroeder and Immigration and Excluding Newcomers by Birth by Thomas Carnes
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Rawlsian Justice and the Social Determinants of Health - Fishman - - Journal of Applied Philosophy - Wiley Online Library
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Douglas MacKay
New pub at @JAppPhilosophy with Jayna Fishman, "Rawlsian Justice and the Social Determinants of Health."
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Warned of Rising Seas, North Carolina Chose to Favor Development
The legislature passed a law in 2012 to ignore evidence of sharp long-term rises in sea level, so the state’s fragile coastline would go on booming.
Trump’s America Is Following a Pattern Europe Knows All Too Well
Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. History can tell us where this leads.
Douglas MacKay
Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well. @anneapplebaum offers a warning from Europe
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Does Teacher Diversity Matter in Student Learning?
Research shows that students, especially boys, benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women.
As Germans Seek News, YouTube Delivers Far-Right Tirades
A researcher found the platform’s recommendation system had steered viewers to fringe and conspiracy videos on a neo-Nazi demonstration in Chemnitz.
Douglas MacKay
"@zeynep Tufekci, a prominent social media researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has written that these findings suggest that YouTube could become 'one of the most powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century.'”
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Read the full transcript of Obama’s fiery anti-Trump speech
"This is not normal."
Douglas MacKay
Read the full transcript of Obama’s fiery anti-Trump speech vox.com/policy-and-pol… via @voxdotcom
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Philosophie
D'où viennent les réticences à l'impôt ? Avec Patrick Turmel, professeur de philosophie, et Eudes Baufreton, porte-parole d'une association de contribuables.
An Open Letter to Premier Ford and Minister MacLeod on Basic Income
We, collectively, represent the principal investigators, research teams and stakeholder groups behind several distinct basic income experiments underway in Finland, Scotland, the Netherlands, the U…
India’s Supreme Court decriminalizes gay sex in historic ruling
The judgment marks a major victory for gay rights in a country of 1.3 billion people.
How the Far Right Conquered Sweden
A bastion of social democracy, the country refused to deal with the realities of mass immigration.
Basic income movement strong despite Ontario’s actions
In the spirit of rallying the troops for the upcoming fight, we offer several positive reflections against the backdrop of despair.
North Carolina’s Gerrymandered Map Won’t Be Redrawn for the Midterms
Even though they found the current House districts unconstitutional, a judicial panel said there wasn’t enough time left before Election Day to impose a new map.
Amid illiberal revolution in Hungary, a university with U.S. roots fights to stay
The Orban government is threatening to oust Central European University. The United States wants it to back off.
Douglas MacKay
Amid illiberal revolution in Hungary, a university with U.S. roots fights to stay
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