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Sam
is a contributor on politics and international affairs to The Huffington
Post. Sam’s page on The Huffington Post [link]
Here are some of his previous writings:
L I B R A R Y
Writings from The Huffington Post
Sam Sedaei – Terrorism 101 – The
Huffington Post – January 25, 2008 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Audacity of Denial – The Huffington Post –
January 17, 2008 [link]
Sam Sedaei – The Real Fairytale in this Campaign – The
Huffington Post – January 14, 2008 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Edwards Must Go – The Huffington Post –
January 9, 2008 [link]
Sam Sedaei – The Twenty-First Century’s
Greatest Generation – The
Huffington Post – January 6, 2008 [link]
Sam Sedaei – The Courage to Change – The Huffington
Post – January 2, 2008 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Obama is Right on 527s – The Huffington
Post – December 26, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – The Clintons, The High Priest and Conflicting Interests – The
Huffington Post – December 18, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – So Much for Freedom of Speech – The
Huffington Post – December 10, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Representative Tom Lantos: “True Blue and
White” – The Huffington Post – December
5, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Experience that Counts – The Huffington
Post – December 3, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Obama: America’s Best Hope –
The Huffington Post – November 20, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Déjà vu: On
The Wrong Side Once Again – The Huffington Post – November 12, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Senator Clinton is Wrong on Iran –
The Huffington Post – November 6, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Mr. Olmert:
Tear Down This Wall – The Huffington Post – November 2, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – The Biggest
Lie Told To The American People: Ahmadinejad’s Alleged Remarks on Israel – The
Huffington Post – October 29, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Hillary
Clinton is Wrong for This Country – The Huffington Post – October 26, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Pretty and
Dumb – The Huffington Post – October 16, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – An Open Letter to America – The Huffington Post – October 12, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Why
They Hate Us – The
Huffington Post – October
10, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Deafening Silence on Israel –
The Huffington Post – October 2, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Smartest
Man in the Room – The
Huffington Post – September
25, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Why
Rejecting Ahmadinejad’s Visit Was a Big Mistake –
The Huffington Post – September
20, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – They Did Not Attack Us for Our Freedoms –
The Huffington Post – August
31, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – The Tipping Point in American Politics and Collapse
of Neo-conservatism – The
Huffington Post – August
13, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – A Whole New Hillary – The Huffington
Post – August 10, 2007
[link]
Sam Sedaei – Whose Tube?
Previous Debate’s Strengths and Weaknesses – The Huffington Post
– August 1, 2007
[link]
Sam Sedaei – Incomprehensive Choices on Iran – The Huffington Post – July 31, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Moore Left Us Wanting More
– The Huffington Post – July 20, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Deficit Reduction Blowback and
Balancing the Budget on the Backs of Seniors – The
Huffington Post – July 12, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Pardon Clause: A bit of Monarchy in Our Great Democracy
– The Huffington Post – July 8, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Why I Love America – The Huffington
Post – July 4, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Media’s Disservice to Our Democracy –
The Huffington Post – June 15, 2007 [link]
Sam Sedaei – Failure of the New Pax Americana – The
Huffington Post – June 11, 2007. [link]
Selected Works On Economics and Policy
Sam Sedaei. Sustainability:
A Test for The Humanity. 6.02.2006.
[link]
Sam wrote this paper as a senior project, in which he
offered a complete overhaul of the way we should think about reform and
sustainable development. He offers a path that can lead us to independence
from fossil fuels, a more uncompromising national security, millions of new
jobs in a newly-born industry and a healthier earth and atmosphere for
future generations.
Sam Sedaei. Immigration: A
New Debate about An Old Problem. 6.05.2006. [link]
Sam argues for a comprehensive immigration.
Sam Sedaei. Sedaei Security Fund for Student Workers.
Fall of 2004. [link]
In the beginning of his junior year in the fall of 2004, he
proposed a plan to establish a college fund to raise Kalamazoo student
workers’ wages on campus with the help of alumni contributions since all
student workers at the time made the minimum wage of $5.15/hour. This is
the original copy of this proposal as presented to Kalamazoo College and
the Alumni Board. Kalamazoo College Advancement, however, did not welcome
and pursue the proposal without presenting a specific reason and despite genuine
interest from a number of K alumni board members.
Sam Sedaei. World Bank in the Twenty-First Century. 3.11.2005.
[link]
In response to a hypothetical request for policy advice on
where The World Bank ought to go in the twenty-first century, Sam writes a
memo to the now-former president of the Bank, Paul Wolfowitz with answer to
that question.
Sam Sedaei. The United States
Foreign Aid in the Twenty-First Century: A New Vision. 4.25.2005.
[link]
Sam offers a new vision for the United States foreign aid in
the twenty-first century.
Sam Sedaei. Theory and
Structure of International Banking. 11.28.2005. [link]
Sam analyzes theory and structure of international banking
and what they mean for economics in the new century.
Sam Sedaei. Political
Social Welfare Policy, Apolitical Poor. 11.2.2004. [link]
Sam Sedaei on
the history and future of American social welfare policy.
Sam Sedaei. Second-class Citizens: The Poor. 10.15.2004.
[link]
Believing that no one has thus far adequately defined the
concept of poverty without having to rely on examples and numbers, Sam
offers a new definition for this condition that is based both on economics
and other pragmatic principles in the social sciences.
Sam Sedaei. A Case
Against Tort Reform. 1.25.2005. [link]
Sam makes a case against tort reform.
Sam Sedaei. Liberalism
Vs. Dependency: A Clash between two political economic theories.
1.27.2004. [link]
Sam compares to major economic theories: liberalism and
dependency.
Sam Sedaei. “New Deal”
v. Bad Deal. March, 2005. [link]
Sam’s column from the Lux Esto Law Review, in which he
explains the ideological reasons behind republicans’ failed attempt to
privatize social security.
Sam Sedaei. Commercial
Aircraft Industry. 3.10.2006. [link]
Sam reviews the commercial aircraft industry and compares
the two major players in the industry – Boeing and Airbus – in the context
of global economy.
Sam Sedaei. Home
Homeless People Live. November, 2002. [link]
From Sam’s journal after he spends a night in downtown
Kalamazoo to talk with the homeless and learn how they live.
Selected
Works on Foreign Policy
Sam Sedaei. The
Pink Revolution: The Growth of the Democratic Movement in Iran. April
of 2006. [link]
The Iranian revolution of 1979 overthrew Reza Shah Pahlavi’s
regime and ended 2500 years of Persian monarchy. However, its replacement
with a theocratic and extremist regime misled the majority of the rest of
the world into believing that the new regime represented the desire of the
majority of Iranians.
Since the empowerment of the Islamic forces, and especially
since the end of the eight-year war against Iraq, a strong democratic
movement has been growing, which calls for a change of regime and replacing
the current one with a genuine and secular democracy. As Iranians become
more dissatisfied with the current rulers, they find more reasons to join
the democracy movement. This research explores the facts that have been
contributing to the popularity of the democracy movement in Iran.
Sam traveled to Iran in the run-up and after the
2005 Iranian presidential elections for five weeks and conducted a research
on the growth of the democratic movement and what he calls The Pink
Revolution.
Sam Sedaei. Iran
and the Contemporary U.S.
Foreign Policy. 2.3.2005. [link]
Sam’s review of the United States’ contemporary
policy toward Iran.
Sam Sedaei. Misunderstanding
an Ancient Superpower: Principle critiques of the U.S. policy
toward Iran.
2.24.2005. [link]
Sam offers a series of criticisms of U.S. policy
toward Iran.
Sam Sedaei. Need of
Change in the United
States Policy toward Iran.
3.11.2005. [link]
In response to a hypothetical
request by Secretary Rice for advice on policy toward Iran in the
twenty-first century, Sam writes a memo with answer to that question.
Selected
Works On Law and Social Policy
Sam Sedaei. Diversity
as a Compelling State Interest.
Spring, 2006. [link]
Sam’s opening at the American Civil Liberties Union debate
in 2006 where he defended affirmative action by arguing that diversity was
a compelling national interest.
Sam Sedaei. Rumsfeld
v. Padilla. Spring, 2006. [link]
Sam takes on the hypothetical role of the lawyer of Jose
Padilla, whom the United
States arrested on May 8, 2004, labeled as “enemy
combatant” and deprived from the right to habeas corpus and jury by trial.
Sam Sedaei. Korematsu v.
United States”
and Japanese Civil Rights in America. 3.10.2006. [link]
Sam argues that after Pearl Harbor,
American courts and the Supreme Court went out of their way to defy
precedents and basic constitutional principles to justify the mass-arrest
of Japanese-Americans.
Sam Sedaei. Mythical
Prejudice. 11.30.2005. [link]
Sam on Genesis’s prejudice against women.
Sam Sedaei. POWER;
An Exclusive Club Promoting Equality. 6.05.2006. [link]
Sam’s report on radical feminism on Kalamazoo College’s
campus as an example of how radicalism is undercutting the purpose of the
movement.
Selected Works in Philosophy and Literature
Sam Sedaei. Literature’s
Decleration of Independence:
The Role of Literature in the American Revolution and Formation of American
Identity. 11.28.2005. [link]
American Revolution and the declaration of independence have
arguably been the most significant incidents in the history of the United States.
A close study of these events indicates that one of the main pillars of the
revolution was the idea of American national identity. In this paper, Sam
explains the role that American literature played in forming that identity.
Sam Sedaei. Habermas’s
Pragmatics of Communication. 6.10.2005. [link]
Sam analyzes the pragmatics and elements of Jürgen
Habermas’s pragmatics of communication.
Sam Sedaei. Pragmatics
of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. 4.29.2005.
[link]
Sam has always greatly admired William Shakespeare’s plays,
specifically because of the way Shakespeare uses the complexity of language
to allow characters within the plays to succeed at creating their
perlocutionary effect in others. This paper explains this masterful use of
language in the context of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Sam Sedaei.
Theory of Skill Acquisition By Hubert and Stewart Dreyfus. 3.17.2003. [link]
Sam on Hubert and Stewart Dreyfus’s argument that the formal
system of deductions and premises and propositional knowledge is one of the
problems of traditional epistemology and artificial intelligence research.
Sam Sedaei. Reliabilism
and the Generality Problem. 2.25.2003. [link]
Sam explains reliabilism as an important method to counter
Gattier’s challenge, which claims that one can have justified belief
without that belief necessarily being knowledge
Sam Sedaei. Concept
of Basic Beliefs. 2.3.2003. [link]
Sam on the concept of basic beliefs.
Sam Sedaei. Kuhn’s
Meaning of Scientific Revolution. 5.26.2002. [link]
Sam explains Thomas Kuhn’s concept of Scientific Revolution.
Selected
Op-eds
Sam Sedaei. The Campus
Responds to Intolerance Symbolically and Ineffectively. The Index.
5.4.2006. [link]
Sam Sedaei. The Dangers
Alito poses to Americans and the Constitution. The Index. 2.2.2006 [link]
Sam Sedaei. Hypocrisy is
neither left nor right; it’s wrong. The Index. 11.10.2005. [link]
Sam Sedaei. What’s Wrong
with John Roberts and Republicans. The Index. 10.6.2005 [link]
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