Month: April 2010

Deborah Lipstadt discusses how misinformation and false claims are used to question the reality of the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews.

Interconnectedness, paranormal information transmission, asymmetrical evidence acceptance, aperception of contradiction, and more.

A new and exciting advance for the academic world.

Marie Brenner on forced marriage, violence, imprisonment of women.

Women in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.

‘I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.’

Impatient with nuances and discriminations that would impede the march of her argument.

The Spectator, coffee houses, no swords, drawing rooms, books, mixing, nobility and gentry, Boswell’s dirty breeches, and much more.

The exhibit’s commentary is limited to comments like ‘Respect and sharing of your self is very important.’

‘…they hide the atheism at the core of leftist politics in order to pursue a blatant get–rich–quick electoral scheme.’

Authors motivated by impatience with relentless self-promotion and unquestioning adulation of French media.

The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women’s bodies.

‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’

Where did all the French feminists go?

Increasing involvement of philosophers with evolutionary biology testifies to the emergence of the discipline to the center of public interest in science.

You can be certain and be wrong.

Taken for granted now, but it hasn’t always been.

Execrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.

We need to challenge a youth culture that thinks to do well in school is ‘to act white.’

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