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

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. … Read the rest

The impact of censorship is in fact to undermine progressive movements within minority communities.… Read the rest

Extreme diets and extreme investing, diversity all around, along with a consensus as ironclad as any in the ’50s.… Read the rest

Beware of neo-Deistic pseudoreligion.… Read the rest

The new chauvinism receives official sanction from government and academic institutions.… Read the rest

If you number your paragraphs, will people mistake you for Adorno?… Read the rest

Attempts to reshape science classes delegitimize science as an especially trustworthy form of knowledge and promote “other ways of knowing” instead. … Read the rest

Confusing religion and race is a clever trap the religious have laid for a worried government rightly anxious about race. … Read the rest

‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’… Read the rest

In the 1992 article that he expanded into an excellent book, Barber examines the ways Identity and Shopping are dividing the world between them.… Read the rest

‘…all but a fraction of his own writing molders unattended in America’s used bookstores. Like the New York Intellectuals with whom he was associated…he is referenced more often than read, a sad fate for a critic who wrote so much, so well and with such wit and insight.’… Read the rest

What if you want to talk about an authentic self instead of an ‘authentic self’?… Read the rest

‘Indian history from the perspective of the Hindutva ideology reintroduces ideas that have long been discarded and are of little relevance to an understanding of the past.’… Read the rest

He has his view and you have yours and they have theirs. So it goes.… Read the rest

‘To concede that no one ever believes something solely because it’s true is not to deny that anything is objectively true.’… Read the rest

‘Ramadan is a cold-blooded Islamist who believes that Islam is the cure for the malaise wrought by liberal values.’… Read the rest

‘We no longer defer to bishops or politicians; scientists are simply facing the same fate.’ Yes but bishops are one thing and scientists are another. We can demand that scientists produce evidence, but what evidence can a bishop offer?… Read the rest

‘…many of the widely accepted claims promulgated by therapists are based on subjective clinical opinions and have been resoundingly disproved by empirical research conducted by psychological scientists.’… Read the rest

It’s important to distinguish between necessary, useful technicality, and jargon or pseudo-mathematics substituting for genuine rigor.… Read the rest