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

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

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

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

One can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.… Read the rest

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

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

Scientists are humorless nerds, and crop circles and crystals are more fun.… Read the rest

‘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.’… Read the rest

In fact Patriot University seems to have no standards.… Read the rest

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

Ad hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.… Read the rest

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

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

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

Prose as a window-pane opens onto a reality that is solidly and visibly ‘out there.’… Read the rest

‘the claims of psychoanalytic theory are not interpretations but determinate propositions about how the mind regularly works’… Read the rest

Azam Kamguian on what the anti-secularist backlash has done to education.… Read the rest

Education has been portrayed as ‘white’ – what use is it when strutting the streets?… Read the rest

Helena Echlin on the misery of being a PhD candidate in English and American literature at Yale. She has to stifle her urge to write ‘eh?’ in the margins, discovers that obfuscation is de rigeur, and that people who talk nonsense are now looked upon not as sloppy thinkers, but as sages.… Read the rest