Category: Flashback

We Have No Orders To Save You.

Shukria Barakzai, founder and editor of a newspaper for Afghan women, was named Worldpress.org’s 2004 International Editor of the Year.

Anyone baptised using terms such as “Creator”, “Redeemer” and “Sanctifier” would have to be re-baptised using the traditional ceremony.

There’s the fun of watching conservative pundits scramble to deny the obvious.

Relativity has been attacked in the name of US pragmatism, German idealism, English Hegelianism, French Bergsonianism (by fellow Jew Henri Bergson!), Soviet “diamat” (dialectical materialism) and Nazi “Deutsche Physik”

Cites sorrow and anger, demands apology for insult to honour of prophet.

‘Historians are always making up figures,’ said Lyndall Ryan. Oh really?

Emboldened by their growing political power, religious conservatives are once again storming the barricades of science education.

The state cannot protect women and ensure that they can go about their work safely.

Service providers cannot help them because they’re minors and runaways.

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

Being gay in Bangladesh isn’t easy.

We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.

Natalie Angier unimpressed by Bush’s assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks Vapo Rub for the national charley horse.

Another demonstration that atheism is simply not permissible.

What is so good about having faith when you don’t have evidence? What is the real advantage to that? Why is this something that we want to encourage?

Confirming the universally unacceptable harm caused by FGM, and issuing an unqualified call for the elimination of this practice in all its forms.

History is for Karen Armstrong not so much putty as Playdoh.

Feminism created a new normal.

The strongly patriarchal nature of South Asian societies ensures even worse treatment for lesbians than for gay men.