When someone gets ill, women are punished.… Read the rest
Flashback
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.
Costing an Arm and a Leg 
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Mental disorders come and go.… Read the rest
Jesus and Mo on Righteous Blasphemy
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Jesus is reading The Philosophers’ Magazine.… Read the rest
Tony Sewell and Lee Jasper on racism and school.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We need to challenge a youth culture that thinks to do well in school is ‘to act white.’… Read the rest
Silence over Afghan women’s rights
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Widows starve, refugees are beaten, rape victims are beaten… Read the rest
Profile of Susan Sontag from 1992.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.’… Read the rest
Kenan Malik’s Debate with Steve Fuller
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If there are two cultures involved in the Sokal affair they are shoddy scholarship on the one side and an attempt at rational thought on the other. … Read the rest
Azam Kamguian on Islam and Education
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The anti-secularist reaction has been bad for women and children.… Read the rest
The machismo of the riots
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In 1968, women and men occupied the barricades.… Read the rest
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Scientific American provides useful tool… Read the rest
Hitchens on Hirsi Ali
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She has case histories that will freeze your blood. These, however, are in some ways less depressing than the excuses made by qualified liberals for their continuation. … Read the rest
Barbie looks better with no legs
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Why does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?… Read the rest
Researcher denied funds for assuming evolution
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Peer-review committee said he hadn’t provided ‘adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of evolution, and not intelligent-design theory, was correct.’… Read the rest
The Catcher in the Rye is a crap book.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Execrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.… Read the rest
Simon Blackburn interview
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
On truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume… Read the rest
Pragna Patel on the Impact of Fundamentalism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Women in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.… Read the rest
Nigerian State Segregates Travel
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’… Read the rest
A Conversation Between Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Both are obsessed with realism and the pursuit of objective knowledge… Read the rest
Law angers women’s rights campaigners
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
New Islamic family law in Malaysia undermines women’s rights.… Read the rest
The real politics behind bad academic writing
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”… Read the rest
