‘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

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

Washington freed his slaves in his will, Jefferson did not. The reasons of each tell us much about American history.… Read the rest

In the 1992 article that he expanded into an excellent book, Barber examines the ways Identity and Shopping are dividing the world between them.… Read the rest

He has his view and you have yours and they have theirs. So it goes.… Read the rest

‘Mathematics is absolutely integrated with Western civilization, which conquered and dominated the entire world.’… Read the rest

‘Among intellectuals and in the academic world, any attempt to blame Islam for women’s oppression is stamped as Orientalism.’… Read the rest

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

‘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

When students are consumers, they want what they pay for.… Read the rest

‘In the clamorous and bloodstained souk of the world…people still go unrepentantly on looking out for good lives’… Read the rest

‘We no longer defer to bishops or politicians; scientists are simply facing the same fate.’ Yes but bishops are one thing and scientists are another. We can demand that scientists produce evidence, but what evidence can a bishop offer?… Read the rest

What a coincidence that we’re here and not on that nasty Pluto.… Read the rest

Centrality is so uncool that the margins are as full of people as Bangkok or the Aran Islands.… Read the rest

‘The Epistemological Situation of Astrology in Relation to the Ambivalent Fascination/Rejection of Postmodern Societies’… Read the rest