Category: Flashback

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.’

James Wood on the grim outlook for social realism and ‘hysterical realism’, which may allow a space for the aesthetic and the contemplative again.

‘Anthropologists are trained to appreciate cultural differences, but they can’t stand it within their own profession.’

‘Among his many weapons are a forensic curiosity, a vast learning, a savage wit, a commanding intellect, an international perspective and a moral authority that is built on something sturdier than cheap moralising.’

Dissent is part of all cultures, Asian decidedly included.

Some antievolutionists admit that they intend for intelligent-design theory to serve as a “wedge” for reopening science classrooms to discussions of God.

‘A superficially historicist, materialist case – our beliefs and assumptions are embedded in our practical forms of life – leads not only to a kind of epistemological idealism, but to the deeply convenient doctrine that our way of life cannot be criticised as a whole.’

NAGPRA proceeds from an antievolutionary perspective grounded in fundamentalist religious belief.

Is feminism about being a fragile flower needing protection and consolation at every hint of conflict? Or is it about being a cactus and fighting back. Wendy Kaminer disavows florality.

‘Mathematics is absolutely integrated with Western civilization, which conquered and dominated the entire world.’

‘Death and marriage may have fed and fuelled her writing, but – posthumously at least – they cramp her style.’

Most government-funded Islamic clubs ‘are run by deeply conservative men and perpetuate the segregation of women.’

It’s so uncool to think there is a real world.

‘Among intellectuals and in the academic world, any attempt to blame Islam for women’s oppression is stamped as Orientalism.’

The facts of widespread human privation and those of political oppression and atrocity are available to all who want them.

Being on the side of the rich and powerful ought to make it hard to play victim, but the right in the US manages it by seeing ‘liberal’ bias in the media even when it’s…not there.

Centrality is so uncool that the margins are as full of people as Bangkok or the Aran Islands.

The world is a jungle, barely one child in a hundred escapes being murdered! Or so you would think.