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

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

It’s so uncool to think there is a real world.… Read the rest

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

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

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.… Read the rest

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

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

Richard Dawkins on the cowardly flabbiness of the intellect that afflicts otherwise rational people confronted with long-established religions. … Read the rest

The Skeptical Dictionary looks at energy medicine, the flow of chi or prana, auras, chakras…… Read the rest

‘The Epistemological Situation of Astrology in Relation to the Ambivalent Fascination/Rejection of Postmodern Societies’… Read the rest

Eerily patient explanations from Sokal and Bricmont of why gibberish is gibberish.… 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