Category: Flashback

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…’

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

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

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

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