Author: Ophelia Benson

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

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

In 1968, women and men occupied the barricades.

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

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

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.

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

A classic on intergroup conflict and cooperation

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

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

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

Michael Bérubé on the Chomskian left and obfuscation

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

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

When someone gets ill, women are punished.

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.

What is called for is an exquisite balance between skeptical scrutiny and great openness to new ideas.

Don’t think someone as educated as Ross could fall into such a trap? Think again.

One of the greatest living skeptics talks about such follies as psychoanalysis, ID, and contemporary literary theory

Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.