Vardy schools accord equal importance to both creationism and theories of evolution.… 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.
Philosophy: Who Needs It?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘It’s a bug that has taken hold of me without asking my permission.’… Read the rest
Jesus and Mo on Mother Teresa
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNot for fans of the saint… Read the rest
No Need for Facts When You Have Faith
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonYou can be certain and be wrong.… Read the rest
Julian Baggini considers online collaborations.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHow human relationships are being pushed in new directions by virtual worlds.… Read the rest
Michael Ruse reads Dawkins
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRuse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham… Read the rest
Costing an Arm and a Leg
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMental disorders come and go.… Read the rest
How Fabrications Differ from a Lie
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.… Read the rest
Confessions of a Lonely Atheist
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive.’… Read the rest
Reminding liberals how to get mad
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMichael Bérubé on the Chomskian left and obfuscation… Read the rest
Jesus and Mo on Righteous Blasphemy
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonJesus is reading The Philosophers’ Magazine.… Read the rest
Paul Gross Reviews Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIncreasing 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 BensonOr 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 BensonAll those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.… Read the rest
Barbie looks better with no legs
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhy does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?… Read the rest
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen on Juliet Mitchell
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThere is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.… Read the rest
Barbara Forrest on the Wedge at Work
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHow ID creationism is wedging its way into the cultural and academic mainstream.… Read the rest
Ramin Jahanbegloo on the intellectual in the Middle East
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIntellectual elites who gave up their intellectual habits and submitted to the strict rules of ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism or Islamism.… Read the rest
Researcher denied funds for assuming evolution
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPeer-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.’… Read the rest
Jane Kramer on French feminism.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhere did all the French feminists go?… Read the rest