Endpoint (11.18.11)

The week’s best links that we didn’t get to:

1. A beautiful interview with philosopher Fred Neuhouser on inequality, Rousseau, and the quest to improve the world

2. Should we have a right to education, healthcare, and housing?

3. David Brooks on the vanity of the response to the Penn State scandal

4. Defectors from the Syrian army attacked a government military base in Harasta on Tuesday.

5. Paul Krugman thinks the failure of the budget “supercommittee” will be a good thing.

6. Salman Rushdie wins a fight with Facebook over what to call himself on his Facebook page.

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