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 Benson
There’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 Benson
Misdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…… Read the rest
Richard Norman on Richard Swinburne
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If 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 Benson
Entrenches the opinions of parents.… Read the rest
HRW on Women’s Rights
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.… Read the rest
Milt Rosenberg interviews Frederick Crews [audio]
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
One 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 Benson
Don’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 Benson
What 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 Benson
She 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 Benson
When someone gets ill, women are punished.… Read the rest
Ramin Jahanbegloo on a philosophy of tolerance
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Attentiveness 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 Benson
Intellectual 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 Benson
Michael 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 Benson
Enlightenment, 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 Benson
Derogation of the out-group was expressed in word and deed.… Read the rest
The Robbers Cave Experiment
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A classic on intergroup conflict and cooperation… Read the rest
WAF Replies to Tariq Modood
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Communities 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 Benson
Her 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
