From Stephen Law’s The War For Children’s Minds. … Read the rest

On Evgenia Ginzburg’s Into the Whirlwind.… Read the rest

Our abilities to distinguish an actual pattern from mere background noise are deeply flawed.… Read the rest

Armenians not mentioned; Turkey mollified.… Read the rest

A church news release explains: ‘God is punishing America for her sodomite sins.’… Read the rest

Abu Ghanem family has been killing its women; eight have been murdered here in the last six years.… Read the rest

After the last killing, of Hamda Abu Ghanem, 18, female relatives decided to speak up. Twenty of them. … Read the rest

‘Sometimes it should provoke a great shout: “Stop. You don’t know that. You have no right.”’… Read the rest

Nuns are too so useful.… Read the rest

Their lack of deference is oppressive.… Read the rest

Say hello to the banality of evil.… Read the rest

Lack of exception for woman’s health not a problem because who knows, maybe it never is one.… Read the rest

The era of deference to religious belief is ending as faith is subjected to gimlet-eyed scrutiny.… Read the rest

The go-to guy in philosophy when it came to emotions, the scholar the encyclopedia editors called first.… Read the rest

Hating pretentiousness is a bracing sentiment but it jumps easily to mere philistinism. … Read the rest

Abuse included hitting with rolling pins and nettles, and forcing them to eat red-hot chillies.… Read the rest

‘A collective decision was taken to pursue a course of restorative justice and reconciliation.’… Read the rest

‘How should this American Empire exercise its power? One useful tactic, Roberts believes, is massacring civilians.’… Read the rest

Hari cites chapter and verse.… Read the rest

‘What I tell you three times is true’ but what I tell you forty-two times maybe not.… Read the rest