Japan’s disputes with China and South Korea rooted in differences over the past.… Read the rest
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Toynbee Nails Papal Funeral Travesty
Apr 10th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘With its ban on condoms the church has caused the death of millions.’… Read the rest
Legislator and Philosopher Discuss Florida Bill
Apr 10th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Dogmatic’ professors who don’t want to teach ID…… Read the rest
Time to Get Really Scared
Apr 10th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhen a Senator excuses murderous violence against judges as understandable reaction to their decisions.… Read the rest
One Thing to Learn
Apr 9th, 2005 11:03 pm | By Ophelia BensonThis is good fun – although a few of the answers will give people like Philip Blond fits. But that’s good, that will give him something to talk about next time he’s on the radio. No doubt producers are calling him all the time, now that he’s an expert on What’s Wrong With Science.
Anyway. Lots of good ones.
… Read the restI would teach the world the importance of staying actively intellectually engaged throughout our lives, especially as we become elderly. There are good data now that point to the fact that continuing to challenge yourself late in life — taking up a new hobby, learning to play a musical instrument, doing crossword puzzles, etc — actually helps to maintain cognitive function,
What’s Wrong With Florida House Bill 837
Apr 9th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonLegislative analysts say bill would give students right to sue over anything presented in class.… Read the rest
Workers’ Liberty on Tariq Ramadan
Apr 9th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia Benson40 reasons he is a strange ally for the left.… Read the rest
Cogito Ergo Bite Me
Apr 9th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAt UC Berkeley, philosophy is the thug gangsta of all majors.… Read the rest
What One Thing Should Everyone Learn About Science?
Apr 9th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonUncertainty, natural selection, responsibility instead of prayer.… Read the rest
Japan Urged Calm in Book Protest
Apr 9th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAmbassador said patriotic education in China may have caused some anti-Japanese feelings.… Read the rest
New History Textbook Prompts Rock-throwing
Apr 9th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTruth in history does matter then…?… Read the rest
History Protests at Japanese Embassy in Beijing
Apr 9th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonJapan approved school books which China says gloss over Japanese atrocities. … Read the rest
The Nerve of Some Teachers
Apr 8th, 2005 7:32 pm | By Ophelia BensonHere’s a very useful collection for you – links to news coverage of Florida State Representative Dennis Baxley’s proposed ‘Academic Freedom Bill of Rights.’ People like Baxley are a big help, you know? Any time I listen to Start the Week or Saturday Review and get a little cross or downcast or highstrung about the way everyone simply takes it for granted that all Americans are both stupid and insane – well all I have to do is think of people like Rep. Baxley and I realize why UK radio chatters might think that.
The Alligator gets in some good jabs.
… Read the restAt the Capitol, Baxley opened the council meeting by saying that personal criticism he received about the bill was
Terry Eagleton on Literary Competition
Apr 8th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonReviews Bourdieu-influenced portrait of literature as lethal combat.… Read the rest
Michael Walzer on the Danger of Military Metaphors
Apr 8th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA ‘fighting faith’ is good for activists but not for armies.… Read the rest
Florida Academic ‘Freedom’ Bill Struggling
Apr 8th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonProfessors actually sometimes disagree with students, even about evolution. Horrors.… Read the rest
Carlin Romano: Saul Bellow Was the Best
Apr 8th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe novelist of record when it came to America’s peculiar high-low rap. … Read the rest
What History Students Read
Apr 8th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTextbooks, mostly; then they take a test. Not good.… Read the rest
Strained Readings of Kelley-Hawkins
Apr 8th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAs critics have labored to account for the almost aggressive whiteness of her characters.… Read the rest
Kelley-Hawkins Due to be Reforgotten
Apr 8th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNot a conflicted black writer after all, just a dull white one. Oh.… Read the rest