Author: Ophelia Benson

Dr Mohini Giri works to rescue Indian widows from living death.

She houses, feeds, clothes and pays for the schooling of orphans in Uganda.

Very nasty stuff

Human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals.

She was regularly beaten, left to sleep in her own urine, had her teeth knocked out, was hospitalised after a beating when she tried to break out of the orphanage.

Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress; fifteen died.

Books by a superb (albeit incorrigibly centrist) reporter and a radical social critic.

Debate human nature.

Relativity has been attacked in the name of US pragmatism, German idealism, English Hegelianism, French Bergsonianism (by fellow Jew Henri Bergson!), Soviet “diamat” (dialectical materialism) and Nazi “Deutsche Physik”

We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.

On NPR’s Science Friday in 1996, the rising popularity of pseudoscience and the importance of critical thinking.

Paddy Doyle’s timeline of Irish Industrial Schools and failed attempts to reform them.

Paddy Doyle has a large collection saved.

Michael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.

A ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas ‘across Whitehall’.

A world cured of its worst remediable deprivations and horrors is worth aiming for.

Appendix F – a must read.

Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.

The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.