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.

Out of Islam *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘I don’t need a Hell to fear to be ethical, or a paradise to reward me for my good.’… Read the rest

Posted in Flashback


Not What You Think but How You Think *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

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

Posted in Flashback


Samantha Power on genocide and failures to prevent it. *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

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

Posted in Flashback


Memory and trauma *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Sally Satel looks at the way we construct narratives about our symptoms.… Read the rest

Posted in Flashback


Katha Pollitt on Multiculturalism and Women. *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘A Russian, an Italian, could not justify beating his wife to death by referring to the customs of dear old Moscow or Calabria’… Read the rest

Posted in Flashback


‘Independent’ Peer Review *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

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

Posted in Flashback


Paul Kurtz on Belief *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Why do people believe or disbelieve?… Read the rest

Posted in Flashback


Multicultural Pseudoscience *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Bernard Ortiz De Montellano on gibberish dressed up as education.… Read the rest

Posted in Flashback


Richard Dawkins Karate-chops Fashionable Nonsense *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Dawkins on fun and games.… Read the rest

Posted in Flashback


Thomas Kuhn Examined *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

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

Posted in Flashback


Durkheim on Religion *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

The way to ‘reject the insipid relativism of the tabula rasa without denying or ignoring the freedom and variability of individual human beings and their cultures.’… Read the rest

Posted in Flashback


Why Lit-crits want economists to sound more like lit-crits. *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Paul Krugman draws an interesting parallel with Stephen Jay Gould.… Read the rest

Posted in Flashback


Historic Conference in Chicago March 2000 *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

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

Posted in Flashback


More Than 500 Arguments for the Existence of God *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

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

Posted in Flashback


Rigoberta Menchu *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘Whenever you’re told that you shouldn’t look into something, for some people, that is a very clear directive that you ought to keep looking.’… Read the rest

Posted in Flashback