ICC prosecutor says the rebels are using the money they make to rearm.… 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.
Profile of Wangari Maathai
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa – poor women. … Read the rest
Newspaper articles on child abuse in Ireland
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Paddy Doyle has a large collection saved.… Read the rest
The Ethics of Belief
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship.… Read the rest
James Harkin on The Threat to Reason
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Enlightenment 2.0 makes for a rather toothless, muddled kind of liberation. … Read the rest
Joanne Payton on Sati
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Across rural India, it’s easy to find people who revere sati as the ultimate demonstration of womanly honour, devotion and piety. … Read the rest
Research? hmm. Torture? go right ahead.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ben Goldacre asks: Where’s your ethics committee now, science boy?… Read the rest
Canada will not participate in Durban II
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Durban I degenerated into open expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism that undermined the very goals the conference sought to achieve.… Read the rest
Brad DeLong on books as people
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘As long as I think of these as “texts,” they are dry and boring. But there is a key to making them exciting: to remember that they are not texts: they are people–people urgently trying to talk to me, to tell me something very important that they think I desperately need to know.’… Read the rest
Constitution? What constitution?
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Article 37 of Maryland’s constitution provides that “no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God”… Read the rest
Remember Hazlitt
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Michael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.… Read the rest
Peter Van Inwagen on Clifford’s Sentence
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on Insufficient Evidence?… Read the rest
18 good ideas
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Tahir Aslam Gora suggests an outline for the new Islam.… Read the rest
Nebraska 1997: Multiculturalism meets child marriage
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The use of cultural evidence risks a dangerous balkanization of the criminal law.… Read the rest
Flemming Rose on why he published the cartoons
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders. … Read the rest
Nahid Toubia fights against FGM
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘This is about women and elevating the status of women and making them equal human beings.’… Read the rest
Belief in hell
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
79.7% in Ireland, 74.6% in the US, 58.3% in the UK.… Read the rest
Paul Gross Reviews Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Increasing involvement of philosophers with evolutionary biology testifies to the emergence of the discipline to the center of public interest in science.… Read the rest
Can White Guys Eat Quiche and Jump?
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Or as Tom Lehrer put it: Fight fiercely Harvard, fight fight fight: impress them with our prowess, do.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on the Norton ‘Theory’ Anthology
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
All those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.… Read the rest