Category: Flashback

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

Extreme diets and extreme investing, diversity all around, along with a consensus as ironclad as any in the ’50s.

Beware of neo-Deistic pseudoreligion.

The new chauvinism receives official sanction from government and academic institutions.

If you number your paragraphs, will people mistake you for Adorno?

Attempts to reshape science classes delegitimize science as an especially trustworthy form of knowledge and promote “other ways of knowing” instead.

Confusing religion and race is a clever trap the religious have laid for a worried government rightly anxious about race.

‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’

In the 1992 article that he expanded into an excellent book, Barber examines the ways Identity and Shopping are dividing the world between them.

‘…all but a fraction of his own writing molders unattended in America’s used bookstores. Like the New York Intellectuals with whom he was associated…he is referenced more often than read, a sad fate for a critic who wrote so much, so well and with such wit and insight.’

What if you want to talk about an authentic self instead of an ‘authentic self’?

‘Indian history from the perspective of the Hindutva ideology reintroduces ideas that have long been discarded and are of little relevance to an understanding of the past.’

He has his view and you have yours and they have theirs. So it goes.

‘To concede that no one ever believes something solely because it’s true is not to deny that anything is objectively true.’

‘Ramadan is a cold-blooded Islamist who believes that Islam is the cure for the malaise wrought by liberal values.’