Author: Ophelia Benson

79.7% in Ireland, 74.6% in the US, 58.3% in the UK.

The evidence supporting the whole ‘hydration industry’ is flawed.

Detox-based diets can include the use of tablets, socks, body wraps, diets, eating nettle root extract or drinking herbal infusions or “oxygenated” water.

Because he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.

We need to challenge a youth culture that thinks to do well in school is ‘to act white.’

Execrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.

Taken for granted now, but it hasn’t always been.

You can be certain and be wrong.

Increasing involvement of philosophers with evolutionary biology testifies to the emergence of the discipline to the center of public interest in science.

Where did all the French feminists go?

‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’

The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women’s bodies.

Authors motivated by impatience with relentless self-promotion and unquestioning adulation of French media.

‘…they hide the atheism at the core of leftist politics in order to pursue a blatant get–rich–quick electoral scheme.’

The exhibit’s commentary is limited to comments like ‘Respect and sharing of your self is very important.’

The Spectator, coffee houses, no swords, drawing rooms, books, mixing, nobility and gentry, Boswell’s dirty breeches, and much more.

Impatient with nuances and discriminations that would impede the march of her argument.

‘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.’

Women in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.

Marie Brenner on forced marriage, violence, imprisonment of women.