Author: Ophelia Benson

All those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.

Be as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.

OU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t

Scientific American provides useful tool

The desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”

Classic Symptom of Epistemological Cretino-Leftism: Claiming that criticism, reason, rational inquiry and the pursuit of truth are “instruments of oppression”.

Americans just keep getting smarter and smarter

It is pretty uplifting to be a scientist-theologian, happy with the universe, confident of the ways of the Lord.

Socialism is a violation of God’s creation order.

Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.

‘If You Don’t Believe in God, the Hellfire Awaits You.’

‘these attributions scarcely rise to the level of a caricature of rational inquiry’

Mark Bauerlein on the institutional factors behind groupthink.

Some librarians now post NO SILENCE PLEASE signs as part of their marketing campaigns.

Many who fear the rise of Islamophobia veer away from critical analysis of Islamic claims and practices, perhaps for fear of what they might find.

Mental disorders come and go.

Why does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?

The bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!

Greer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.

Amanda Day talks to Labour MP Ann Cryer about her campaign to win justice for young Asian women.