Women in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.… Read the rest
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Pragna Patel on the Impact of Fundamentalism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonProfile of Susan Sontag from 1992.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.’… Read the rest
Denis Donoghue Reviews Illness as Metaphor.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonImpatient with nuances and discriminations that would impede the march of her argument.… Read the rest
Politeness on ‘In Our Time’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Spectator, coffee houses, no swords, drawing rooms, books, mixing, nobility and gentry, Boswell’s dirty breeches, and much more.… Read the rest
A ‘Museum Different’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe exhibit’s commentary is limited to comments like ‘Respect and sharing of your self is very important.’… Read the rest
An Unlikely Communion of Socialists and Islamists
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘…they hide the atheism at the core of leftist politics in order to pursue a blatant get–rich–quick electoral scheme.’… Read the rest
BHL Too Fashionable, French Intellectuals Report
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAuthors motivated by impatience with relentless self-promotion and unquestioning adulation of French media.… Read the rest
As Miss World Turns
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women’s bodies.… Read the rest
Richard Wolin on Derrida
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’… Read the rest
Jane Kramer on French feminism.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhere did all the French feminists go?… Read the rest
Paul Gross Reviews Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIncreasing involvement of philosophers with evolutionary biology testifies to the emergence of the discipline to the center of public interest in science.… Read the rest
No Need for Facts When You Have Faith
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonYou can be certain and be wrong.… Read the rest
Jews in US Academia since World War II
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTaken for granted now, but it hasn’t always been.… Read the rest
The Catcher in the Rye is a crap book.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonExecrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.… Read the rest
Tony Sewell and Lee Jasper on racism and school.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWe need to challenge a youth culture that thinks to do well in school is ‘to act white.’… Read the rest
Gangsta Rap Culture Not Such a Good Thing?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEducation has been portrayed as ‘white’ – what use is it when strutting the streets?… Read the rest
Derek Freeman Replies
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAd hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.… Read the rest
Derek Freeman or Margaret Mead?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOne can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.… Read the rest
Ni Putes ni Soumises
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘We’re girls, so we’re less-than-nothings, Priscilla, 17, told Le Monde after her friend Sohane’s death.… Read the rest
Irfan Khawaja takes issue with Daniel Pipes
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMilitant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.… Read the rest