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Palestinian women were trapped between Israeli occupation and patriarchal Palestinian tradition.

Journalist seems to find atheism deeply mystifying.

‘Atheist prose tends to be clear, unadorned by allegory and utterly characterless.’ Oh yeah?

Women unamused by their own physical decay? Hitchens oblivious? ‘Now, why is this?’

Without TV and the Internet, jihad would be an alarming but marginal form of immoderation.

The best combine imagination and argument; a new landscape of ideas, and how to defend it.

‘Some of my most bored moments have been trying to read those who think that the more clever and obscure they sound, the more profound their thought.’

In today’s public discourse, science is treated not as a search for truth, but as source of edifying fables.

Colin Hart of Christian Institute said concerns of religious people had been ‘trampled over.’

Supreme Court instructed the provincial governor not to sign the bill.

There are unanswered questions about that Paris car crash. Therefore, the black swan did it.

‘He just had some kind of silly positivistic notions of science, he doesn’t know what science is.’

Hindu activists are demanding that Nepal be declared a Hindu state again.

Philosopher notes Moral Reasoning can cover ‘what we do and do not have reason to do and believe.’

Tangled as it is with religion and culture, the issue of the status of women is a political minefield.

‘Rebecca Goldstein’s Betraying Spinoza speaks directly to my puzzlement.’

‘Said, as literary theorist, was prone to the sweeping generalization. Irwin, as historian, is the partisan of noisome little facts.’

‘To insist on one view at the expense of the other is necessarily to violate deeply held moral intuitions.’

Criticising Zionism is entirely legitimate; attempting to pass these criticisms off as therapeutic advice is not.

Quiet place, Wales.