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“I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.” TryingPhilosophyUseMovingPoliticalEventsWoundsDebateJournalistMotivatedReportersProximityWatergate Author:Michael Sandel