Category: Flashback

Not for fans of the saint

You can be certain and be wrong.

How human relationships are being pushed in new directions by virtual worlds.

Ruse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham

Mental disorders come and go.

‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.

‘Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive.’

Michael Bérubé on the Chomskian left and obfuscation

Jesus is reading The Philosophers’ Magazine.

Increasing involvement of philosophers with evolutionary biology testifies to the emergence of the discipline to the center of public interest in science.

Or as Tom Lehrer put it: Fight fiercely Harvard, fight fight fight: impress them with our prowess, do.

All those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.

Why does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?

There is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.

How ID creationism is wedging its way into the cultural and academic mainstream.

Intellectual elites who gave up their intellectual habits and submitted to the strict rules of ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism or Islamism.

Peer-review committee said he hadn’t provided ‘adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of evolution, and not intelligent-design theory, was correct.’

Where did all the French feminists go?

Anti-science is a revolt wherein second-rate scholarship is parlayed into tenured professorships and book contracts.

Be as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.