Palestinian women were trapped between Israeli occupation and patriarchal Palestinian tradition.… Read the rest

Journalist seems to find atheism deeply mystifying.… Read the rest

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

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

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

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

‘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.’… Read the rest

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

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

Supreme Court instructed the provincial governor not to sign the bill.… Read the rest

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

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

Hindu activists are demanding that Nepal be declared a Hindu state again. … Read the rest

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

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

‘Rebecca Goldstein’s Betraying Spinoza speaks directly to my puzzlement.’… Read the rest

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

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

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

Quiet place, Wales.… Read the rest