Greer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.… Read the rest
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SF, Crypto-fascism and Romanticism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!… Read the rest
Barbie looks better with no legs
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhy does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?… Read the rest
Costing an Arm and a Leg
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMental disorders come and go.… Read the rest
Piers Benn on Islamophobia-phobia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMany who fear the rise of Islamophobia veer away from critical analysis of Islamic claims and practices, perhaps for fear of what they might find.… Read the rest
Libraries
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSome librarians now post NO SILENCE PLEASE signs as part of their marketing campaigns.… Read the rest
The hegemony of social constructionism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMark Bauerlein on the institutional factors behind groupthink.… Read the rest
Noam Chomsky’s ‘Rationality/Science’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘these attributions scarcely rise to the level of a caricature of rational inquiry’… Read the rest
Visiting Preacher Killen
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘If You Don’t Believe in God, the Hellfire Awaits You.’… Read the rest
What is Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHighly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.… Read the rest
About Patrick Henry College
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSocialism is a violation of God’s creation order.… Read the rest
An Unbeautiful Mind
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt is pretty uplifting to be a scientist-theologian, happy with the universe, confident of the ways of the Lord. … Read the rest
Grade Inflation in US higher education
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAmericans just keep getting smarter and smarter… Read the rest
Cretino-Leftism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonClassic Symptom of Epistemological Cretino-Leftism: Claiming that criticism, reason, rational inquiry and the pursuit of truth are “instruments of oppression”.… Read the rest
The real politics behind bad academic writing
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”… Read the rest
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonScientific American provides useful tool… Read the rest
The Things We Forgot to Remember
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t… Read the rest
Eagleton on Spivak
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBe as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on the Norton ‘Theory’ Anthology
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAll those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.… Read the rest
Michael Ruse reads Dawkins
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRuse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham… Read the rest