Category: Flashback

New Islamic family law in Malaysia undermines women’s rights.

Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.

The sequences used in Sheldrake’s research are not properly randomized.

In their ‘paranoiac and demonological theology of science’ Lewontin, Kamin and Rose fire both barrels with equal monotony and imprecision: ‘determinism’ and ‘reductionism’. But the gallant little fire brigade has perpetrated a fatuous little book.

Consider Will Crooks, Labour MP. ‘Growing up in extreme poverty…Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand Iliad, and was dazzled…’

A scandal in anthropology is complicated by politics, emotion, prestige – the usual sort of thing.

Washington freed his slaves in his will, Jefferson did not. The reasons of each tell us much about American history.

Women’s groups demand that murderers be treated according to laws of the land and not be allowed to find shelter behind the curtain of ‘culture’.

‘We are born of primordial slime, not at the hands of a benevolent and concerned supreme being who lovingly crafted us from clay.’

‘We’re girls, so we’re less-than-nothings, Priscilla, 17, told Le Monde after her friend Sohane’s death.

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.