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

‘Developments take place in a world linked by ideas rather than by race.’… Read the rest

Being on the side of the rich and powerful ought to make it hard to play victim, but the right in the US manages it by seeing ‘liberal’ bias in the media even when it’s…not there.… Read the rest

The Skeptical Dictionary looks at energy medicine, the flow of chi or prana, auras, chakras…… Read the rest

No, linear doesn’t mean what pomos think it means.… Read the rest

Alternative to what? Testing and evidence?… Read the rest

Book reviews in glossy magazines, worshipful interviewers on public radio and tv, ‘annoying’ as the ultimate condemnation…… Read the rest

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

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

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

Investors need to know the truth, but voters don’t. Or not.… Read the rest