Ahmed Mashhouri worked for human rights in Iran; exhibit was called ‘It’s not forbidden to think.’… Read the rest

Church will picket Natasha Richardson’s funeral for a variety of reasons, all of them stupid.… Read the rest

Taj Din al-Hilali, the ‘women are uncovered meat’ guy, kicked his door in then reported vandalism to police.… Read the rest

Why? Well there was that guy with the dagger in the market, asking who wants to be beheaded first.… Read the rest

Principals of several English-language schools told police they had received threats from Islamists.… Read the rest

JAMA finds they dawdle more rather than less.… Read the rest

Journalists cherry pick evidence, then explain risks and benefits in the single most unhelpful way possible.… Read the rest

If you’re planning a career in scientific fraud, then medicine is an excellent place to start.… Read the rest

Upheld. … Read the rest

‘Being bundled into a box and incinerated in a furnace is not my idea of dignity,’ he says.… Read the rest

US bishops have told Catholic universities not to honor lawmakers who ‘dissent from church teaching.’… Read the rest

Lots of liberals do challenge Islamism, therefore…they all do? Is that the claim?… Read the rest

Is all well with the liberal consensus?… Read the rest

God’s teeth! The dentist is also a Sunday school teacher and chair of the state board of education.… Read the rest

Postmodernism opposes not only the absolute truths of mere authority but also the fallibilist truth of rational inquirers.… Read the rest

We have them all wrong, he says.… Read the rest

‘Anybody can say anything to anybody? Kill your own family because they are not “real Muslims”?’… Read the rest

Jirgas are being held in Sindh despite a ban; they declare women karis for getting higher education.… Read the rest

Hours of reading.… Read the rest