Execrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.… Read the rest
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Tony Sewell and Lee Jasper on racism and school.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We 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 Benson
Education 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 Benson
Ad hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.… Read the rest
Derek Freeman or Margaret Mead?
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
One 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 Benson
Militant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.… Read the rest
Naomi Weisstein defends the beanie hat
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We need to know what’s out there so that we can change it.… Read the rest
Lee Smith on Tariq Ramadan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Ramadan is a cold-blooded Islamist who believes that Islam is the cure for the malaise wrought by liberal values.’… Read the rest
Brian Appleyard’s Understanding the Present reviewed.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’… Read the rest
Thomas Nagel on the Sleep of Reason
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Eerily patient explanations from Sokal and Bricmont of why gibberish is gibberish.… Read the rest
Norman Geras on Minimum Utopia
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The facts of widespread human privation and those of political oppression and atrocity are available to all who want them.… Read the rest
NAGPRA and the Demon-haunted World
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
NAGPRA proceeds from an antievolutionary perspective grounded in fundamentalist religious belief.… Read the rest
Norman Levitt on Kennewick Man.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
NAGPRA is a well-intentioned piece of legislation that has grown into a monster of anti-scientific bias.… Read the rest
Rigoberta Menchu
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Whenever you’re told that you shouldn’t look into something, for some people, that is a very clear directive that you ought to keep looking.’… Read the rest
Multicultural Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bernard Ortiz De Montellano on gibberish dressed up as education.… Read the rest
Out of Islam
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘I don’t need a Hell to fear to be ethical, or a paradise to reward me for my good.’… Read the rest
Francis Crick on Atheism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘What could be more foolish than to base one’s entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at that time, now appear to be quite erroneous?’… Read the rest
The Impact of Religion on Children’s Education
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Azam Kamguian on what the anti-secularist backlash has done to education.… Read the rest
Barbara Forrest on The Wedge at Work
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream… Read the rest
