A commitment to women’s equality has eroded and strong opposition to this commitment has emerged.… Read the rest
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Chris Mooney on Tom Bethell
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThere’s plenty of science hijacking in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science.… Read the rest
Hitchens on ‘Mother Teresa’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMisdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…… Read the rest
Richard Norman on Richard Swinburne
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf belief in God is a matter of ‘faith’ in contrast to reason, there’s nothing to distinguish it from mere wishful thinking.… Read the rest
What segregated education does
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEntrenches the opinions of parents.… Read the rest
HRW on Women’s Rights
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonViolence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.… Read the rest
Milt Rosenberg interviews Frederick Crews [audio]
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOne of the greatest living skeptics talks about such follies as psychoanalysis, ID, and contemporary literary theory… Read the rest
A Mathematician Reads Social Text
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDon’t think someone as educated as Ross could fall into such a trap? Think again.… Read the rest
Carl Sagan on The Burden of Skepticism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhat is called for is an exquisite balance between skeptical scrutiny and great openness to new ideas.… Read the rest
Hitchens on Hirsi Ali
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonShe 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. … Read the rest
Witch-hunts in Orissa
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhen someone gets ill, women are punished.… Read the rest
Ramin Jahanbegloo on a philosophy of tolerance
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAttentiveness towards others and openness towards truth is still not a matter of common sense in some religious and political cultures.… Read the rest
Ramin Jahanbegloo on the intellectual in the Middle East
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIntellectual elites who gave up their intellectual habits and submitted to the strict rules of ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism or Islamism.… Read the rest
Reminding liberals how to get mad
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMichael Bérubé on the Chomskian left and obfuscation… Read the rest
Philosophy: Who Needs It?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘It’s a bug that has taken hold of me without asking my permission.’… Read the rest
Carlin Romano Reads Bruce Bawer
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEnlightenment, we should equally remember, means replacing half-baked notions and myths with facts.… Read the rest
On the Robbers Cave Experiment
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDerogation of the out-group was expressed in word and deed.… Read the rest
The Robbers Cave Experiment
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA classic on intergroup conflict and cooperation… Read the rest
WAF Replies to Tariq Modood
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCommunities of interest are not born; they are made, and construct themselves, according to prevalent ideologies.… Read the rest
Necla Kelek
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHer 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. … Read the rest