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

What is the difference between genuine inquiry and the sham and fake variety?… Read the rest

Miller wonders why ‘unavailing Latinate neologisms’ convince so many people that something profound is being said.… Read the rest

Scientists are humorless nerds, and crop circles and crystals are more fun.… Read the rest

‘When I grew up and became a literary critic, I learned to keep silent about the reading experiences of liberation that I’d enjoyed since childhood.’… Read the rest

In fact Patriot University seems to have no standards.… Read the rest

How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream… Read the rest

Ad hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.… Read the rest

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

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

‘There is nothing sacrosanct about any culture or religion’s rituals. Cultures are neither monolithic, unchanging, nor without internal critique and resistance…’… Read the rest

Prose as a window-pane opens onto a reality that is solidly and visibly ‘out there.’… Read the rest

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

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

Education has been portrayed as ‘white’ – what use is it when strutting the streets?… Read the rest