The anti-secularist reaction has been bad for women and children.… 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.
Grade Inflation in US higher education
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAmericans just keep getting smarter and smarter… Read the rest
Manufactured Consensus?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf political considerations dictate what gets published, it’s all over for science.… Read the rest
Mediawatchwatch interviews Stephen Green of ‘Christian Voice’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOther writings are unashamed myth, but not the Bible.… Read the rest
The machismo of the riots
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIn 1968, women and men occupied the barricades.… Read the rest
Milt Rosenberg interviews Frederick Crews [audio]
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOne of the greatest living skeptics talks about such follies as psychoanalysis, ID, and contemporary literary theory… Read the rest
About that Chinese encyclopedia…
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFoucault cited Borges, but some of his followers cite the encyclopedia as fact.… Read the rest
Politeness on ‘In Our Time’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Spectator, coffee houses, no swords, drawing rooms, books, mixing, nobility and gentry, Boswell’s dirty breeches, and much more.… Read the rest
A Conversation Between Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBoth are obsessed with realism and the pursuit of objective knowledge… Read the rest
An Unbeautiful Mind
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt is pretty uplifting to be a scientist-theologian, happy with the universe, confident of the ways of the Lord. … Read the rest
Polio outbreak in Indonesia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOfficials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot… Read the rest
The Pope is also a head of state, and that’s bad
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well… Read the rest
Law angers women’s rights campaigners
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNew Islamic family law in Malaysia undermines women’s rights.… Read the rest
HRW on Women’s Rights
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonViolence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.… Read the rest
Sheldrake’s staring effect
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe sequences used in Sheldrake’s research are not properly randomized. … Read the rest
Denis Donoghue Reviews Illness as Metaphor.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonImpatient with nuances and discriminations that would impede the march of her argument.… Read the rest
Arguments from Incredulity and Gödel
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Basically, Godel’s theorems prove the Doctrine of Original Sin, the need for the sacrament of penance, and that there is a future eternity.’… Read the rest
About Patrick Henry College
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSocialism is a violation of God’s creation order.… Read the rest
Rushdie on ‘joke’ Islamic leaders
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSays there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world. … Read the rest
So where are these powerful arguments?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAlister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist… Read the rest