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Empty-headed vehemence of a discouraging kind *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

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



SF, Crypto-fascism and Romanticism *

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The 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 *

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Why does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?… Read the rest



Costing an Arm and a Leg *

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Mental disorders come and go.… Read the rest



Piers Benn on Islamophobia-phobia *

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Many 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 *

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Some librarians now post NO SILENCE PLEASE signs as part of their marketing campaigns.… Read the rest



The hegemony of social constructionism *

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Mark Bauerlein on the institutional factors behind groupthink.… Read the rest



Noam Chomsky’s ‘Rationality/Science’ *

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‘these attributions scarcely rise to the level of a caricature of rational inquiry’… Read the rest



Visiting Preacher Killen *

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‘If You Don’t Believe in God, the Hellfire Awaits You.’… Read the rest



What is Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy? *

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Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.… Read the rest



About Patrick Henry College *

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Socialism is a violation of God’s creation order.… Read the rest



An Unbeautiful Mind *

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It 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 *

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Americans just keep getting smarter and smarter… Read the rest



Cretino-Leftism *

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Classic 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

The 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 *

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Scientific American provides useful tool… Read the rest



The Things We Forgot to Remember *

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OU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t… Read the rest



Eagleton on Spivak *

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Be as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.… Read the rest



Scott McLemee on the Norton ‘Theory’ Anthology *

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All those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.… Read the rest



Michael Ruse reads Dawkins *

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Ruse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham… Read the rest