Anti-science is a revolt wherein second-rate scholarship is parlayed into tenured professorships and book contracts.… Read the rest
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
Eagleton on Spivak
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBe as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.… Read the rest
SF, Crypto-fascism and Romanticism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!… Read the rest
Oregon’s ‘Cultural Competence’ Plan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMany faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation… Read the rest
Robert Frost’s ‘Design’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘I found a dimpled spider, fat and white…’… Read the rest
Ramin Jahanbegloo on a philosophy of tolerance
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAttentiveness towards others and openness towards truth is still not a matter of common sense in some religious and political cultures.… Read the rest
Stalking the wild taboo
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Seville Statement on Violence was written in the language of sociopolitical activism, not that of science.… Read the rest
Richard Wolin on Derrida
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’… Read the rest
Index to Creationist Claims
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims.… Read the rest
The Things We Forgot to Remember
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t… Read the rest
Empty-headed vehemence of a discouraging kind
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGreer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.… Read the rest
Company recalls ‘offensive’ sandals
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonLaceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’… Read the rest
Crews Replies to Plantinga on ID
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCreationists sense they’re playing a losing game.… Read the rest
Witch-hunts in Orissa
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhen someone gets ill, women are punished.… Read the rest
Nurse gang raped for doing her job
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonShe refused to perform illegal abortions, so three men assaulted her… Read the rest
As Miss World Turns
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women’s bodies.… Read the rest
What is ‘liberal orthodoxy’?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGraham Larkin answers questions from New York Sun… Read the rest
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonScientific American provides useful tool… Read the rest
Ann Cryer: Forced marriages must end
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAmanda Day talks to Labour MP Ann Cryer about her campaign to win justice for young Asian women.… Read the rest
The great Kabbalah con
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAn organisation that charges £860 for dinner, ‘healing’ water and some books in Aramaic… Read the rest