Category: Flashback

Secularists, women’s rights campaigners, minorities not pleased.

Entrenches the opinions of parents.

I want to know, and many thousands of Muslim girls and women have a right to know, why understanding and infinite tolerance is practised with particular cultural traditions that are clearly oppressive of women.

Psychoanalysis was never, despite Freud’s ‘positivist rhetoric,’ a science; it was a ‘purely speculative enterprise,’ argues Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen.

Literary criticism, cultural studies; love letter and satire.

If Lentricchia and Said have joined, the revenge of the emeriti may not be so regressive after all.

‘In the clamorous and bloodstained souk of the world…people still go unrepentantly on looking out for good lives’

‘John does know more mathematics, more physics and more engineering than the average biologist. But he also knows more biology than the average biologist.’

Don’t essentialize Indianness, but you’d better get the Real India right.

One can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.

What is the difference between genuine inquiry and the sham and fake variety?

Miller wonders why ‘unavailing Latinate neologisms’ convince so many people that something profound is being said.

Scientists are humorless nerds, and crop circles and crystals are more fun.

‘When I grew up and became a literary critic, I learned to keep silent about the reading experiences of liberation that I’d enjoyed since childhood.’

In fact Patriot University seems to have no standards.

How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream

Ad hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.

Dowsing, homeopathy, Tarot cards and their relevance to mental health professions, and, of course, alien abductions.

‘The anti-intellectuals are finally on the side of power at its most unforgiving and voracious.’

‘There is nothing sacrosanct about any culture or religion’s rituals. Cultures are neither monolithic, unchanging, nor without internal critique and resistance…’