Category: Flashback

No, linear doesn’t mean what pomos think it means.

Slaughter of innocents, human sacrifice, eternal torture – it’s all there.

Betrousered, two-eyed philosopher Ventre considers a world in which Things are Against Us.

When cultures are organized around controlling and using women, is blanket respect for Other cultures such a good idea?

Alternative to what? Testing and evidence?

NAGPRA is a well-intentioned piece of legislation that has grown into a monster of anti-scientific bias.

James Wood on the grim outlook for social realism and ‘hysterical realism’, which may allow a space for the aesthetic and the contemplative again.

‘Anthropologists are trained to appreciate cultural differences, but they can’t stand it within their own profession.’

‘Among his many weapons are a forensic curiosity, a vast learning, a savage wit, a commanding intellect, an international perspective and a moral authority that is built on something sturdier than cheap moralising.’

Dissent is part of all cultures, Asian decidedly included.

Some antievolutionists admit that they intend for intelligent-design theory to serve as a “wedge” for reopening science classrooms to discussions of God.

‘A superficially historicist, materialist case – our beliefs and assumptions are embedded in our practical forms of life – leads not only to a kind of epistemological idealism, but to the deeply convenient doctrine that our way of life cannot be criticised as a whole.’

NAGPRA proceeds from an antievolutionary perspective grounded in fundamentalist religious belief.

Is feminism about being a fragile flower needing protection and consolation at every hint of conflict? Or is it about being a cactus and fighting back. Wendy Kaminer disavows florality.

‘Mathematics is absolutely integrated with Western civilization, which conquered and dominated the entire world.’

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

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

It’s so uncool to think there is a real world.

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

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