‘the universe revealed by science is indifferent to our desires, aims and purposes.’… Read the rest
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Truth-telling has to Wait 
Jun 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Mark Lawson says political pressures can make candour impossible.… Read the rest
Petition Against Shari’a Court in Canada
Jun 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
International Campaign for the Defense of Women’s Rights in Iran offers a petition.… Read the rest
News from Jordan, Iran, Afghanistan, Kuwait
Jun 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bulletin of Committee to Defend
Women’s Rights in the Middle East.… Read the rest
Stuart Hampshire
Jun 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Excerpts from Times obituary.… Read the rest
Stuart Hampshire
Jun 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Obituary by Alan Ryan in the Independent.… Read the rest
Damn Elitists!
Jun 18th, 2004 8:57 pm | By Ophelia BensonI watched part of an old ‘Frontline’ on tv the other evening. ‘Frontline’ is one of the few fairly good shows on US public tv – actually one of the two, I would say, ‘Nova’ being the other. US public tv is so mediocre it’s painful. (And public radio is even worse. But that’s a separate subject.) It was about ‘Alternative’ Medicine. One part of it I found particularly extraordinary – an interview with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. I’ve always disliked Hatch, frankly. He’s very conservative, and he has an irritating voice. He sounds like someone who’s trying to soothe a rowdy room full of six-year-olds – in fact I suppose he sounds a bit like Mr Rogers. Mr … Read the rest
Time and Effort – and Emotional Labour
Jun 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Madeleine Bunting on emotional demands the service economy makes on workers.… Read the rest
Is Smoking a Class Issue?
Jun 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Are instruction and ’empowerment’ opposed? … Read the rest
Guardian’s Joyce Links
Jun 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bloomsday, the Disneyfication of Ireland, new Mollies, O’Brien, Maddox.… Read the rest
Summer and Autumn
Jun 17th, 2004 11:17 pm | By Ophelia BensonHorrible day here. In the upper 80s. The air quality doesn’t look too bad – the sky at the horizon is not brown – but it smells terrible outside all the same. It always does once it gets this hot. Heated-up car exhaust, I assume. I don’t like summer much.
But never mind that. The Dictionary gets printed next week. Once that happens, you see, it will be a book. Rectangular thing, open on three sides, pages with printed words on them. Something one can hold in the hand. Something one can read more or less anywhere – on the bus, in the park, in the checkout line at the supermarket, on the treadmill. That’s much harder to do with … Read the rest
New Age and Skepticism: Two Cultures
Jun 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What it’s like to go from chakras and auras to critical thinking.… Read the rest
Religion in India and US
Jun 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Two major democracies deal with divisions over religion.… Read the rest
Cass Sunstein on ‘Second Bill of Rights’
Jun 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Roosevelt’s 1944 State of the Union speech has influenced constitutions around the world.… Read the rest
Bush Asks for Vatican’s Help
Jun 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Wants it to ‘push American bishops to speak out more about political issues.’… Read the rest
‘Religious Hate’ Trial Smacks of Bad Old Days
Jun 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Exhibition angered a mob ‘who unleashed a pogrom in the museum, vandalizing the artworks with paint sprayers.’… Read the rest
Three Charged With Inciting Religious Hatred
Jun 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Human rights activists staged art exhibition that angered Russian Orthodox Church.… Read the rest
Gendered Breathing?
Jun 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Unintentionally comic examination of refreshing, provocative, frustrating Luce Irigaray.… Read the rest
Stuart Hampshire
Jun 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Guardian obituary, by Jane O’Grady. … Read the rest
Happy Bloomsday
Jun 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Joyce once said Ulysses did not contain ‘one single serious line’ – and that’s why we like it.… Read the rest
