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Anthropologists gather in Seattle to begin research.

After nine year delay.

Police are on high alert across India to prevent religious unrest.

Destruction of Babri mosque in 1992 prompts riots: 2000 people die.

Minimal violence compared to communal conflagrations in the past.

‘It’s time people began to love the foetus.’ Is it?

Sam Harris says what many people think but hesitate to say.

So the declaration of genocide is old news?

There is no necessary connection between raising money for a good cause and spending the money well.

‘Ideas play only a limited role in our social life.’ Gosh, really?!

The more specific the political purpose, the greater the temptations to dishonesty.

Arguments from the almost forgotten tradition of the anti-totalitarian left.

‘for Zimbabweans he has been the monster of the month for years.’

Regards himself as a patriot, whose patriotism is universal rather than local.

Gives too much legitimacy to David Horowitz and proposed academic bill of rights.

An engineer who designed such a system from scratch would be summarily fired.

Thought experiments and what if scenarios are part of the process.

‘In this superb collection of essays, Sen smashes quite a few stereotypes.’

A fundamental western mistake to see India as in an eternal mystical fog.

There’s more than one kind of female genital mutilation.