Flashback

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.


Norman Levitt on Kennewick Man. *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

NAGPRA is a well-intentioned piece of legislation that has grown into a monster of anti-scientific bias.



NAGPRA and the Demon-haunted World *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

NAGPRA proceeds from an antievolutionary perspective grounded in fundamentalist religious belief.



Norman Geras on Minimum Utopia *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

The facts of widespread human privation and those of political oppression and atrocity are available to all who want them.



Thomas Nagel on the Sleep of Reason *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Eerily patient explanations from Sokal and Bricmont of why gibberish is gibberish.



Brian Appleyard’s Understanding the Present reviewed. *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’



Lee Smith on Tariq Ramadan *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

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



Naomi Weisstein defends the beanie hat *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

We need to know what’s out there so that we can change it.



Irfan Khawaja takes issue with Daniel Pipes *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Militant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.



Ni Putes ni Soumises *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘We’re girls, so we’re less-than-nothings, Priscilla, 17, told Le Monde after her friend Sohane’s death.



Derek Freeman or Margaret Mead? *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

One can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.



Derek Freeman Replies *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Ad hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.



Gangsta Rap Culture Not Such a Good Thing? *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

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