Mark Bauerlein on the institutional factors behind groupthink.
Category: Flashback
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.
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Silence over Afghan women’s rights
Widows starve, refugees are beaten, rape victims are beaten
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Behe and Intelligent Design
Irreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.
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On the Robbers Cave Experiment
Derogation of the out-group was expressed in word and deed.
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The Forward March Of Women Halted?
A commitment to women’s equality has eroded and strong opposition to this commitment has emerged.
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The Catcher in the Rye is a crap book.
Execrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.
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Ivan Kelly on concepts of modern astrology
Interconnectedness, paranormal information transmission, asymmetrical evidence acceptance, aperception of contradiction, and more.
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Margaret Talbot on Carol Gilligan
Gilligan’s teaching is in many ways reactionary, which also helps to account for its extraordinary success
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Libraries
Some librarians now post NO SILENCE PLEASE signs as part of their marketing campaigns.
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Simon Blackburn interview
On truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume
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Behe’s Empty Box
Reviews and Criticisms of Michael Behe’s book: Darwin’s Black Box:
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Carlin Romano Reads Bruce Bawer
Enlightenment, we should equally remember, means replacing half-baked notions and myths with facts.
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Fred Halliday on Blasphemy and Power
It is not possible to insult or defame someone who has been dead for 1,374 years.
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Jews in US Academia since World War II
Taken for granted now, but it hasn’t always been.
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Deborah Lipstadt on Holocaust Denial
Deborah Lipstadt discusses how misinformation and false claims are used to question the reality of the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews.
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Intergalactic Jesus
Attempts to reconcile science and religion usually fail because religions make claims about the real world that don’t stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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Piers Benn on Islamophobia-phobia
Many who fear the rise of Islamophobia veer away from critical analysis of Islamic claims and practices, perhaps for fear of what they might find.
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Frederick Crews on ‘Intelligent Design’
Creationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.
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Tracy Morton and Kay Wilkinson v Vardy
Vardy schools accord equal importance to both creationism and theories of evolution.
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Philosophy: Who Needs It?
‘It’s a bug that has taken hold of me without asking my permission.’