Author: Ophelia Benson

She has case histories that will freeze your blood. These, however, are in some ways less depressing than the excuses made by qualified liberals for their continuation.

When someone gets ill, women are punished.

Attentiveness towards others and openness towards truth is still not a matter of common sense in some religious and political cultures.

Intellectual elites who gave up their intellectual habits and submitted to the strict rules of ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism or Islamism.

Michael Bérubé on the Chomskian left and obfuscation

‘It’s a bug that has taken hold of me without asking my permission.’

Enlightenment, we should equally remember, means replacing half-baked notions and myths with facts.

Derogation of the out-group was expressed in word and deed.

A classic on intergroup conflict and cooperation

Communities of interest are not born; they are made, and construct themselves, according to prevalent ideologies.

Her life was bound by prohibitions: no swimming, no sports, no playing outdoors and no German friends because they were infidels. She ran away the day her father threatened her with an ax.

Secularists, women’s rights campaigners, minorities not pleased.

New Islamic family law in Malaysia undermines women’s rights.

In 1968, women and men occupied the barricades.

Rehman has been thrashed by her father, threatened at gunpoint by her uncle and forced to marry a complete stranger

Collection of articles on on the ways Hindutva propagandists distort ancient Indian history.

K N Panikkar on the politics of rewriting history in India.

Creationists sense they’re playing a losing game.

‘I found a dimpled spider, fat and white…’

How ID creationism is wedging its way into the cultural and academic mainstream.