The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.… Read the rest

Being gay in Bangladesh isn’t easy.… Read the rest

We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.… Read the rest

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

Another demonstration that atheism is simply not permissible.… Read the rest

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

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

History is for Karen Armstrong not so much putty as Playdoh.… Read the rest

Feminism created a new normal. … Read the rest

The strongly patriarchal nature of South Asian societies ensures even worse treatment for lesbians than for gay men.… Read the rest

‘Today, the open society is challenged by Islamism’… Read the rest

He has to reduce science to just another faith in order to salvage the “reasonableness” of religious belief.… Read the rest

“Every day women are sacrificed for their family or tribe,” Nilab Mobarez tells me angrily. … Read the rest

WHO study shows FGM exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth.… Read the rest

The New Yorker on Obama in May 2004… Read the rest

Guy kills wife, gets 3 underage girls in ‘compensation.’… Read the rest

God is silent and inert, the evidence is inadequate, and the universe is not the one predicted.… Read the rest

On NPR’s Science Friday in 1996, the rising popularity of pseudoscience and the importance of critical thinking.… Read the rest

Ibn Warraq on a one-eyed view of the relationship between the Arab and Western worlds.… Read the rest