Author: Ophelia Benson

Derogation of the out-group was expressed in word and deed.

Enlightenment, we should equally remember, means replacing half-baked notions and myths with facts.

‘It’s a bug that has taken hold of me without asking my permission.’

Michael Bérubé on the Chomskian left and obfuscation

Intellectual elites who gave up their intellectual habits and submitted to the strict rules of ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism or Islamism.

Attentiveness towards others and openness towards truth is still not a matter of common sense in some religious and political cultures.

When someone gets ill, women are punished.

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.

What is called for is an exquisite balance between skeptical scrutiny and great openness to new ideas.

Don’t think someone as educated as Ross could fall into such a trap? Think again.

One of the greatest living skeptics talks about such follies as psychoanalysis, ID, and contemporary literary theory

Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.

Entrenches the opinions of parents.

If belief in God is a matter of ‘faith’ in contrast to reason, there’s nothing to distinguish it from mere wishful thinking.

Misdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…

There’s plenty of science hijacking in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science.

A commitment to women’s equality has eroded and strong opposition to this commitment has emerged.

It is not possible to insult or defame someone who has been dead for 1,374 years.

Not for fans of the saint

Jesus is reading The Philosophers’ Magazine.