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Peter Van Inwagen on Clifford’s Sentence *

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Is It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on Insufficient Evidence?… Read the rest

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The Ethics of Belief *

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A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship.… Read the rest

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Religious Schools: the Case Against *

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Extracts from Humanist Philosophers’ Group pamphlet.… Read the rest

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Debunking Edward Said *

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Ibn Warraq on a one-eyed view of the relationship between the Arab and Western worlds.… Read the rest

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Right to Offend *

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‘Today, the open society is challenged by Islamism’… Read the rest

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Confessions of a Lonely Atheist *

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Natalie Angier unimpressed by Bush’s assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks Vapo Rub for the national charley horse.… Read the rest

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Cambridge Mosque press release [on mosque site] *

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Cites sorrow and anger, demands apology for insult to honour of prophet. … Read the rest

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Iran’s bloggers in censorship protest *

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Hundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their blogs after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities.… Read the rest

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The new Taliban codex *

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It is forbidden to work as a teacher under the current puppet regime. Teachers must recieve a warning; next time, a beating; next, death.… Read the rest

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A Conversation with Akbar Ganji and Martha Nussbaum [audio] *

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Iran’s most prominent political dissident talks to the philosopher.… Read the rest

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Hearings into child abuse at Goldenbridge *

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Chills the blood.… Read the rest

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Kenan Malik interprets the Dispatches Muslim Survey. *

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The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.… Read the rest

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The Cardinal’s concern for children. *

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Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.… Read the rest

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Feynman on the Challenger *

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Appendix F – a must read.… Read the rest

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Norm Geras on Minimum Utopia *

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A world cured of its worst remediable deprivations and horrors is worth aiming for.… Read the rest

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The ‘Faith Community Liaison Group’ *

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A ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas ‘across Whitehall’. … Read the rest

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Remember Hazlitt *

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Michael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.… Read the rest

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Newspaper articles on child abuse in Ireland *

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Paddy Doyle has a large collection saved.… Read the rest

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A History of Neglect *

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Paddy Doyle’s timeline of Irish Industrial Schools and failed attempts to reform them.… Read the rest

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Carl Sagan on Pseudoscience *

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On NPR’s Science Friday in 1996, the rising popularity of pseudoscience and the importance of critical thinking.… Read the rest

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