Activists of Islami Jamiat Talaba, a student wing of Pakistan's main fundamentalist Islamic party of Jamaat-i-Islami, torch U.S. and Israeli flags as they shout slogans during an anti-U.S. rally in Karachi on July 16, 2008. They condemned the recent bombings in Pakistani tribal areas by U.S.-led coalition forces from neighboring Afghanistan. White House hopeful Barack Obama on July 15 promised to shift the 'single-minded' U.S. focus on Iraq to Al-Qaeda sanctuaries in tribal Pakistan as part of a sweeping new blueprint for U.S. foreign policy. (ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
The 2008 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.
'The Tragedy of Just War'
Yale University law professor Stephen Carter appeared at the fourth annual Aspen Ideas Festival to give a talk called "The Tragedy of Just War."
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Stephen Carter: Law professor at Yale University, former law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall and author of many books, including "The Culture of Disbelief: How Our Legal and Political Cultures Trivialize Religious Devotion."
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