K N Panikkar on the politics of rewriting history in India.
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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Hitchens on Hirsi Ali
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.
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Kenan Malik on free speech
The impact of censorship is in fact to undermine progressive movements within minority communities.
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BHL Too Fashionable, French Intellectuals Report
Authors motivated by impatience with relentless self-promotion and unquestioning adulation of French media.
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Advertising Standards Authority rules out miracle cure ad
The ASA said Peniel Pentecostal Church had to offer proof at least comparable with that required of makers of washing powder
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The real politics behind bad academic writing
The desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”
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Women Against Fundamentalisms
WAF was launched in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions.
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Scott McLemee does a close reading of ‘Battlefield Earth’
Terl’s responsibilities include blackmailing fellow Psychlo Forest Whitaker and laughing at his own jokes.
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Horseplay in Harappa
Collection of articles on on the ways Hindutva propagandists distort ancient Indian history.
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Carl Sagan on The Burden of Skepticism
What is called for is an exquisite balance between skeptical scrutiny and great openness to new ideas.
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Jeffrey Nielsen’s response to firing by BYU
I also strongly disagree with the implications of your statement that faithfulness and loyalty to the church and church leaders never permits expressions of disagreement, or questioning of our church leaders – especially in an academic setting.
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An Unlikely Communion of Socialists and Islamists
‘…they hide the atheism at the core of leftist politics in order to pursue a blatant get–rich–quick electoral scheme.’
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Carl Zimmer Reviews The God Gene
Or rather, a gene for something labeled ‘spirituality.’
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Cretino-Leftism
Classic Symptom of Epistemological Cretino-Leftism: Claiming that criticism, reason, rational inquiry and the pursuit of truth are “instruments of oppression”.
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Amnesty International on ‘honour’ killings in Pakistan
Dr Tahira Shahid Khan says ‘Women are considered the property of the males in their family irrespective of their class, ethnic or religious group. The owner of the property has the right to decide its fate. The concept of ownership has turned women into a commodity’
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Natural History on ‘Intelligent Design’
Articles by Forrest, Scott, Miller, Pennock, Behe, Dembski, more.
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British diplomats rescue women from forced marriages
Rehman has been thrashed by her father, threatened at gunpoint by her uncle and forced to marry a complete stranger
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A Mathematician Reads Social Text
Don’t think someone as educated as Ross could fall into such a trap? Think again.
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‘Living on Earth’ visits Wangari Maathai
Green belts, trees, women, poverty, empowerment, corruption, resistance.
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A ‘Museum Different’
The exhibit’s commentary is limited to comments like ‘Respect and sharing of your self is very important.’
