Why did it take the US Senate forty years to ratify the UN Genocide Convention?… Read the rest

Why do people believe or disbelieve?… Read the rest

‘The anti-intellectuals are finally on the side of power at its most unforgiving and voracious.’… Read the rest

Azam Kamguian on what the anti-secularist backlash has done to education.… Read the rest

A scandal in anthropology is complicated by politics, emotion, prestige – the usual sort of thing.… Read the rest

‘We’re girls, so we’re less-than-nothings, Priscilla, 17, told Le Monde after her friend Sohane’s death.… Read the rest

‘Indian history from the perspective of the Hindutva ideology reintroduces ideas that have long been discarded and are of little relevance to an understanding of the past.’… Read the rest

Is feminism about being a fragile flower needing protection and consolation at every hint of conflict? Or is it about being a cactus and fighting back. Wendy Kaminer disavows florality.… Read the rest

It’s so uncool to think there is a real world.… Read the rest

The shift from logic to history, and the perennial appeal of irrationalist programs.… Read the rest

TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

(1) Check out that tree. Isn’t it pretty?
(2) Therefore, God exists.… Read the rest

What life was really like in Saddam’s Iraq and what it’s like now.… Read the rest

‘What could be more foolish than to base one’s entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at that time, now appear to be quite erroneous?’… Read the rest

If Lentricchia and Said have joined, the revenge of the emeriti may not be so regressive after all.… Read the rest

One can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.… Read the rest