The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.… Read the rest
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
Afsan Chowdhury on the shadow citizens
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Being gay in Bangladesh isn’t easy.… Read the rest
Joel Achenbach on Carl Sagan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.… Read the rest
Confessions of a Lonely Atheist
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Natalie Angier unimpressed by Bush’s assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks Vapo Rub for the national charley horse.… Read the rest
Massimo Puglicci reads Stanley Fish on atheism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Another demonstration that atheism is simply not permissible.… Read the rest
God v Science
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What is so good about having faith when you don’t have evidence? What is the real advantage to that? Why is this something that we want to encourage?… Read the rest
WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA statement on FGM
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Confirming the universally unacceptable harm caused by FGM, and issuing an unqualified call for the elimination of this practice in all its forms.… Read the rest
Reading Karen Armstrong
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
History is for Karen Armstrong not so much putty as Playdoh.… Read the rest
Katha Pollitt talks to Der Spiegel
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Feminism created a new normal. … Read the rest
M V Ramana on gay rights in South Asia
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The strongly patriarchal nature of South Asian societies ensures even worse treatment for lesbians than for gay men.… Read the rest
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Right to Offend
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Today, the open society is challenged by Islamism’… Read the rest
Pigliucci on Fish on atheism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He has to reduce science to just another faith in order to salvage the “reasonableness” of religious belief.… Read the rest
Natasha Walter on women in Afghanistan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“Every day women are sacrificed for their family or tribe,” Nilab Mobarez tells me angrily. … Read the rest
WHO study on risks of FGM
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
WHO study shows FGM exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth.… Read the rest
The Candidate
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The New Yorker on Obama in May 2004… Read the rest
‘Honour’ killing rewarded with prize of 3 girls
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Guy kills wife, gets 3 underage girls in ‘compensation.’… Read the rest
Richard Carrier: Why I am not a Christian
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
God is silent and inert, the evidence is inadequate, and the universe is not the one predicted.… Read the rest
Carl Sagan on Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
On NPR’s Science Friday in 1996, the rising popularity of pseudoscience and the importance of critical thinking.… Read the rest
Debunking Edward Said
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ibn Warraq on a one-eyed view of the relationship between the Arab and Western worlds.… Read the rest