‘He was very easily irritated by anything bogus, anything facile or hypocritical.’… Read the rest

The Bush administration wants scientists it can trust.… Read the rest

Dowsing, homeopathy, Tarot cards and their relevance to mental health professions, and, of course, alien abductions.… Read the rest

‘the claims of psychoanalytic theory are not interpretations but determinate propositions about how the mind regularly works’… Read the rest

Consider Will Crooks, Labour MP. ‘Growing up in extreme poverty…Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand Iliad, and was dazzled…’… Read the rest

‘We are born of primordial slime, not at the hands of a benevolent and concerned supreme being who lovingly crafted us from clay.’… Read the rest

What if you want to talk about an authentic self instead of an ‘authentic self’?… Read the rest

‘Ramadan is a cold-blooded Islamist who believes that Islam is the cure for the malaise wrought by liberal values.’… Read the rest

Most government-funded Islamic clubs ‘are run by deeply conservative men and perpetuate the segregation of women.’ … Read the rest

Dawkins on fun and games.… Read the rest

Conference brought Armenian
and Turkish scholars together for the first time to discuss the 1915 genocide.… Read the rest

Do scientists ‘keep the faith’ and if so is that a good thing? Is religion a good source of morality?… Read the rest

‘psychoanalysis, unlike a scientific theory but very much like certain religious or political movements, has essentially been immune from attacks leveled at it either from inside or outside the movement.’… Read the rest

Literary criticism, cultural studies; love letter and satire.… Read the rest

Don’t essentialize Indianness, but you’d better get the Real India right.… Read the rest