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‘The evidence should have been clear to me all along: the Bush administration would produce disaster.’

Cosmopolitanism in action.

Teenage stepdaughter-wives may hope not.

Guy seems to have freedom confused with tax-supported.

‘Parents from other faiths tend to like Christian schools because religion and faith are woven into the school.’

Policies that led Begg to be treated outside the law have weakened US claim to moral superiority.

For biologist David Sloan Wilson, evolution is the core curriculum for all academic disciplines.

Any love object – a person, a religious creed, the Red Sox – prompts outrage at skepticism.

Tom Cruise says he never said what somebody said he said.

Scientists react angrily; university plans to concentrate on other areas, such as media.

Respect for others’ beliefs as the highest value leaves two choices: patronizing or relativizing.

In actual humans, we find not logic but all manner of irrational, self-sabotaging, even altruistic behavior.

‘If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.’

‘Our own history makes us only too familiar with the dogmatism and fanaticism we see in Islam.’

Their behaviour is ‘veiled’: they must not laugh or speak loudly, nor move freely.

But possessive jealousies of particular claimants pose huge obstacles to our common inheritance.

Dennett, Armstrong, Williams, Ruthven discuss.

‘To put cruelty first, therefore, is to be at odds with both religion and politics.’

Enlightenment values again under threat from fundamentalism, terrorism, concentration of media power.

Everyone thinks it’s stupid and bad and awful. Very pleasing.