A polemicist and literary warrior in the tradition of Swift.… Read the rest

Do we really need ‘criticism’ of science similar to that of ‘art, literature, movies, architecture’?… Read the rest

Two out of three GM strains ‘should not be grown’.… Read the rest

Touchy-feely blather not the best way to relax after a hard day?… Read the rest

Thomas DeGregori examines antitechnology movements that keep the world’s poor in poverty.… Read the rest

Rights talk doesn’t help when two ‘rights’ are incompatible.… Read the rest

Rejecting all criticism as Orientalist is not what a scholar should do.… Read the rest

‘The justice system will come down on you like a ton of bricks’ for so-called ‘crimes of honour.’… Read the rest

‘Conservative’ can be just code for ‘different from me’.… Read the rest

Teaching for the test makes children hate literature, Pullman says.… Read the rest

Father kills daughter for relationship with Christian.… Read the rest

A history of ‘the long, vexed relationship between the body and the rest of us.’… Read the rest

‘…is terrorism the bastard child of a demonic couple: Islam and Europe?’… Read the rest

Archbishop equates criticism with hostility, calls it offensive.… Read the rest

Terry Eagleton thinks it’s politically catastrophic that cultural theory refuses to engage the big issues.… Read the rest

Fashionable where? In what circles? David Aaronovitch wonders.… Read the rest

Ill-founded fears of MMR jab could result in epidemics of dangerous diseases.… Read the rest

Scholar argues that non-native species are not necessarily bad, and causes a row.… Read the rest

‘We have to decide what we mean by fairness.’… Read the rest

A review of Bernard Williams’ last book.… Read the rest