In Ha’aretz interview Finkielkraut underlined the lack of identification to France amongst many immigrants. … Read the rest
Forget Science and History, Learn to Feel 
Nov 30th, 2005 |
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Schools to teach emotional literacy. Teachers feel unthrilled.… Read the rest
Royal Society President Warns of Fundamentalism
Nov 30th, 2005 |
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Such is the influence of groups that ignore scientific evidence that free inquiry is at risk.… Read the rest
Courtroom Bombs Raise Fears of Islamist State
Nov 30th, 2005 |
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Police, judges and lawyers told to ‘stop upholding man-made laws which go against Islam.’… Read the rest
Secularism Without Secularization
Nov 30th, 2005 |
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The future of secular societies depends upon the cultivation of secular culture.… Read the rest
‘White Flight’ From Schools That Are Too Good
Nov 30th, 2005 |
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Schools ‘too’ academically rigorous, narrowly focused on such subjects as math and science.… Read the rest
Schools Sued for Not Using This Garbage
Nov 30th, 2005 |
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Christians sue California schools for not using execrable Bob Jones U-published ‘books’.… Read the rest
Imagine
Nov 29th, 2005 11:13 pm | By Ophelia BensonAlienation is it. Here’s some alienation for you.
The family and friends of an 18-year-old girl, doused with petrol and set alight in broad daylight by the man she refused to marry, led a silent march through a Parisian suburb yesterday. Chahrazad Belayni is currently fighting for her life in intensive care after suffering severe burns on 60 per cent of her body. She is being kept in an artificial coma…She knew her assailant. He was a former workmate of Pakistani origin who was angry about her refusal to marry him. The man and a suspected accomplice are on the run.
Gee – what a loving gesture. Hard to imagine why she didn’t want to marry him.
… Read the restSeveral hundred people
Ni Putes Ni Soumises Organizes Demonstration
Nov 29th, 2005 |
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Against violence against women and the torching of one particular woman.… Read the rest
ID Becoming Mandatory in Kansas?
Nov 29th, 2005 |
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Legislators micromanage university.… Read the rest
Pamela Bone on Ian McEwan
Nov 29th, 2005 |
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‘Many people confuse criticism of religion – especially Islam – with racism.’… Read the rest
Roger Pearson’s Voltaire
Nov 29th, 2005 |
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The prototype of the committed intellectual; a lot more fun than many of his successors in the genus.… Read the rest
Nicholas Lezard on ‘Urne Burial’
Nov 29th, 2005 |
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Neither parochial, nor philistine, nor hegemonic, nor mediocre.… Read the rest
Johann Hari Reviews Paul Berman
Nov 29th, 2005 |
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Not only an alumnus of 1968 rebellion; he is the keeper of its yearbook and its funeral director.… Read the rest
Simon Blackburn on Donald Davidson
Nov 29th, 2005 |
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In many circles he was something like a one-man church. … Read the rest
Carl Rollyson on Lillian Hellman
Nov 29th, 2005 |
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‘Every biographer of Hellman must sooner or later come to terms with the fabrications in Hellman’s memoirs.’… Read the rest
Fine Careless Rapture
Nov 29th, 2005 2:01 am | By Ophelia BensonTribulation. Got that? Think about it.
Yeah. That’s what I thought.
Don’t mind me, it’s just this rapture site I’ve been looking at. It’s inspiring – is that the word I mean? No, not quite. It’s – baffling? No, that’s not it. Hilarious? Pathetic? Oh, it’ll come to me.
Okay so down to business. What, you’ve been wondering, is wrong with homosexuality? The FAQ section has a whole page all on its own to answer that important question, so I hustled right along to it, excited and hopeful that I would finally learn just exactly what it is that gets Christians (and other religious zealots too) so frantic with rage about homosekshality while other, one would think more pressing and … Read the rest
The Rapture Index
Nov 28th, 2005 |
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Oh no! Earthquakes, volcanoes, the Mark of the Beast. The end is nigh.… Read the rest
How Come God Doesn’t Make Movies?
Nov 28th, 2005 |
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Maybe he doesn’t like those canvas chairs.… Read the rest
Still Two Cultures?
Nov 28th, 2005 |
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And if so, does it matter?… Read the rest
