Miller wonders why ‘unavailing Latinate neologisms’ convince so many people that something profound is being said.… Read the rest

Literary criticism, cultural studies; love letter and satire.… Read the rest

Consider Will Crooks, Labour MP. ‘Growing up in extreme poverty…Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand Iliad, and was dazzled…’… Read the rest

‘But the gender-genre books that are based largely on clinical intuition and popular psychology typically lack a basic skepticism toward received wisdom and the willingness to wrestle with an idea to see who wins.’… Read the rest

‘…many of the widely accepted claims promulgated by therapists are based on subjective clinical opinions and have been resoundingly disproved by empirical research conducted by psychological scientists.’… Read the rest

‘…all but a fraction of his own writing molders unattended in America’s used bookstores. Like the New York Intellectuals with whom he was associated…he is referenced more often than read, a sad fate for a critic who wrote so much, so well and with such wit and insight.’… Read the rest

Beware of neo-Deistic pseudoreligion.… Read the rest

Centrality is so uncool that the margins are as full of people as Bangkok or the Aran Islands.… Read the rest

‘Mathematics is absolutely integrated with Western civilization, which conquered and dominated the entire world.’… Read the rest

‘Anthropologists are trained to appreciate cultural differences, but they can’t stand it within their own profession.’… Read the rest

No, linear doesn’t mean what pomos think it means.… Read the rest

The shift from logic to history, and the perennial appeal of irrationalist programs.… Read the rest

Why did it take the US Senate forty years to ratify the UN Genocide Convention?… Read the rest

What is a government department doing endorsing the idea that traditions and myths count as evidence?… Read the rest

Do scientists ‘keep the faith’ and if so is that a good thing? Is religion a good source of morality?… Read the rest

Dowsing, homeopathy, Tarot cards and their relevance to mental health professions, and, of course, alien abductions.… Read the rest

What is the difference between genuine inquiry and the sham and fake variety?… Read the rest

Psychoanalysis was never, despite Freud’s ‘positivist rhetoric,’ a science; it was a ‘purely speculative enterprise,’ argues Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen.… Read the rest

In their ‘paranoiac and demonological theology of science’ Lewontin, Kamin and Rose fire both barrels with equal monotony and imprecision: ‘determinism’ and ‘reductionism’. But the gallant little fire brigade has perpetrated a fatuous little book.… Read the rest

No it’s not just an accident that the character who gets Tom Hanks killed in Saving Private Ryan is both an intellectual and a coward. Spielberg is making a point, a bad point, and we need to pay attention.… Read the rest