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Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

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.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

Michael Sandel on 'Justice'

Broadcast: Midday, 08/11/2008, 12:00 p.m.

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Harvard University professor of government Michael Sandel turned his legendary semester-long course on justice into an hour-long talk at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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  • Michael Sandel: Professor of government at Harvard University and author of "Liberalism and the Limits of Justice," "Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy" and most recently, "The Case against Perfection: Ethics of Genetic Engineering."

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