Category: Flashback

The bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!

Many faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation

‘I found a dimpled spider, fat and white…’

Attentiveness towards others and openness towards truth is still not a matter of common sense in some religious and political cultures.

The Seville Statement on Violence was written in the language of sociopolitical activism, not that of science.

‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’

Rebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims.

OU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t

Greer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.

Laceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’

Creationists sense they’re playing a losing game.

When someone gets ill, women are punished.

She refused to perform illegal abortions, so three men assaulted her

The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women’s bodies.

Graham Larkin answers questions from New York Sun

Scientific American provides useful tool

Amanda Day talks to Labour MP Ann Cryer about her campaign to win justice for young Asian women.

An organisation that charges £860 for dinner, ‘healing’ water and some books in Aramaic

K N Panikkar on the politics of rewriting history in India.

She has case histories that will freeze your blood. These, however, are in some ways less depressing than the excuses made by qualified liberals for their continuation.