His policies were predicated on the belief that ‘every human being bears the image of our maker.’… Read the rest

Hindu nationalist groups accused him of ‘hurting their religious sentiments.’… Read the rest

That’s against the law in Malaysia, but the judge decided she had never actually converted.… Read the rest

Pseudo-populist suspicion of them there expurts is not the way to stay in the reality-based community.… Read the rest

Wieseltier’s review is preening and melodramatic, an opera bouffe of a literary attack.… Read the rest

Hayek is not as rational and irrefutable as the right would have it. He is a romantic, a serious deficit in a social theorist. … Read the rest

At the heart of all fundamentalist movements is support for the patriarchal family.… Read the rest

The multicultural approach harms women; it focuses on relations between groups, rather than within them. … Read the rest

Another girls school had petrol bombs thrown at it on Sunday.… Read the rest

She loved her parents, they didn’t beat her, but she gave in to the incessant pleadings.… Read the rest

Mo is shocked, shocked.… Read the rest

Those of gay people and those of religious people who want to discriminate against them.… Read the rest

For a demo demanding equal rights for women on divorce, inheritance and child custody.… Read the rest

They are in tension.… Read the rest

Well we can’t have that. Obviously the more ignorant a president is, the better.… Read the rest

Not a documentary; anti-science propaganda to create the appearance of controversy where there is none.… Read the rest

Bogus ‘anti-elitism’ is a weapon against liberal Democrats. How does that work?… Read the rest

The more scientists know about them, the more there is to find out.… Read the rest

Perhaps the Great Filter is a destructive tendency common to virtually all technological civilizations. … Read the rest