Is Army stealthily violating ban on women in combat?… Read the rest
Republicans Move to Ban Women From Combat Support
May 18th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWomen are too distracting.… Read the rest
G’day mate
May 17th, 2005 6:02 pm | By Ophelia BensonOh, who needs sleep anyway. Adrenalin works just as well. I hardly slept at all the whole time I was in London last autumn, and did that slow me down? Not that you’d notice. Except that I had a tendency to fall asleep the instant I set foot on any form of public transport. I seemed to have a terrible confusion between beds in darkened rooms, on the one hand, and moving vehicles packed with strangers, on the other. As a general rule it’s preferable to do one’s sleeping in the former rather than the latter, but I couldn’t seem to get it straight. Oh well.
Anyway I know right now I’m not likely to get any sleep at all … Read the rest
History is Making a Surreal Comeback
May 17th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe search for truth remains a work in progress.… Read the rest
Russell Jacoby on Utopianism
May 17th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBlueprint utopianism is no good, but the iconoclastic kind is another matter.… Read the rest
Mathematics not Platonic but Communal
May 17th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSome proofs are so long that mathematicians give up and agree to agree.… Read the rest
Just Pointing to Environmental Damage Not Enough
May 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThere is both a cost and a benefit and you have to weigh them up.… Read the rest
Cronyism in Academic Poetry?! Surely Not!
May 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFoetry exposes the violent, blood-spattered world of poetry contests.… Read the rest
Church and its Leader Free of Error on Morality
May 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhich makes it difficult to apologize to, say, Jews. Oh well.… Read the rest
Public Money to Teach People to Talk to the Dead
May 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Spiritualist’ group qualifies because it celebrates diversity.… Read the rest
Grant’s Tomb
May 16th, 2005 2:56 am | By Ophelia BensonBoy I’m tired. What a sissy I am. Just because I woke up before dawn and have been slaving away at revisions all day (except for the times I was walking a very slow exasperating dog I know, which is not exercise but a kind of anti-exercise, a kind of minus exercise) – is that any reason to be tired?! Yes, apparently. Anyway I am. But a reader (an avid reader, in fact, he tells me – my favourite kind) sent me a link to this amusing story, which restored my energy and enthusiasm just enough to jot a note on it. Auckland, Auckland – what are you thinking of? Pull yourself together.
… Read the restA spiritualist group has been given
A Little Sarcasm on ID
May 15th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonScience that doesn’t teach his religious beliefs is biased against his religious beliefs. Yeah right.… Read the rest
Irshad Manji Calls for Muslim Think Tank
May 15th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAuthor wants changes in Islam’s stance on issues such as human rights.… Read the rest
Animal Rights Disgrace
May 15th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonParkinson’s sufferer called ‘Nazi.’… Read the rest
Crusade Movie Not Box Office Dynamite
May 14th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBecause of rightward tilt in US, or inaccuracy, or secularism, or something.… Read the rest
Crusades Not a Brilliant Idea
May 14th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhich then got worse. Typical.… Read the rest
History Matters, and That Includes Movie History
May 14th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEpic films can include epic inaccuracies, historians point out.… Read the rest
Quadratic Equations Rock
May 14th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAnalytical thought process in maths is a skill that will empower anyone.… Read the rest
Mayor of London, Political Islam, and Us
May 14th, 2005 | By Maryam NamazieMaryam Namazie: Ken Livingston, the Mayor of London, has published a dossier called ‘Why the Mayor of London Will Maintain Dialogues with All of London’s Faiths and Communities’. Basically, this report is in response to a criticism of his love affair with Qaradawi – a so-called Islamic scholar – by a coalition of several individuals and organisations, including the three of us. We have spoken a lot about this issue, so we won’t go into details here. But I do want to briefly, as an introduction for people who haven’t heard our other discussions about Qaradawi, ask both our guests why they are critical of Livingston’s relationship with Qaradawi? What’s wrong with having a dialogue with him in the … Read the rest
A Stirring Call to Theoretization
May 13th, 2005 8:23 pm | By Ophelia BensonMy head hurts. Or is it my stomach. Or is it some finely-tuned moral or cognitive or aesthetic sense situated somewhere between the two – somewhere mid-gullet, perhaps, or resting on the back of the third rib. Whatever it is, it comes of reading this. What is it that’s so irritating about this…
… Read the restThe Culture Wars of the 1980s and 1990s led some of us to believe that the end of the canon, the end of seemingly objective appraisals of “aesthetic complexity” through close readings, the end of the representation of the culture of white males as culture per se, meant that some major battles in the politics of representation had been won. Some scholars however, suspected that the