It’s so uncool to think there is a real world.… Read the rest
Fifteen Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSome antievolutionists admit that they intend for intelligent-design theory to serve as a “wedge” for reopening science classrooms to discussions of God. … Read the rest
Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhen cultures are organized around controlling and using women, is blanket respect for Other cultures such a good idea?… Read the rest
Historic Conference in Chicago March 2000
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonConference brought Armenian
and Turkish scholars together for the first time to discuss the 1915 genocide.… Read the rest
‘Independent’ Peer Review
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Bush administration wants scientists it can trust.… Read the rest
Dawkins on Darwin’s Genetics
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Sexual selection really is a good candidate for explaining a great deal about the unique evolution of our species.’… Read the rest
Byatt Reviews Browne’s Darwin Biography
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘There has been a tendency among Marxist, or marxisant, critics of Darwin, and social Darwinism, to criticise, or ridicule, the theory as a simple product of the society in which it was developed.’… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on Orwell
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonProse as a window-pane opens onto a reality that is solidly and visibly ‘out there.’… Read the rest
Frank Lentricchia takes it all back.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘When I grew up and became a literary critic, I learned to keep silent about the reading experiences of liberation that I’d enjoyed since childhood.’… Read the rest
Whither Irony?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘In the clamorous and bloodstained souk of the world…people still go unrepentantly on looking out for good lives’… Read the rest
Washington, Jefferson and slavery.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWashington freed his slaves in his will, Jefferson did not. The reasons of each tell us much about American history.… Read the rest
Limitations of Political Reporting
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonInvestors need to know the truth, but voters don’t. Or not.… Read the rest
Democracy and its Global Roots
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Developments take place in a world linked by ideas rather than by race.’… Read the rest
Romila Thapar demolishes Sanskritic Indus Theory
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Indian history from the perspective of the Hindutva ideology reintroduces ideas that have long been discarded and are of little relevance to an understanding of the past.’… Read the rest
And ‘Post-Contemporary’ means…what, exactly?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf you number your paragraphs, will people mistake you for Adorno?… Read the rest
When Religion Steps on Science’s Turf
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRichard Dawkins on the cowardly flabbiness of the intellect that afflicts otherwise rational people confronted with long-established religions. … Read the rest
An ex-Muslim woman speaks out – and has to flee for her life.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMost government-funded Islamic clubs ‘are run by deeply conservative men and perpetuate the segregation of women.’ … Read the rest
Human Rights and Asian Values
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDissent is part of all cultures, Asian decidedly included.… Read the rest
Report on Resistentialism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBetrousered, two-eyed philosopher Ventre considers a world in which Things are Against Us.… Read the rest
Why Lit-crits want economists to sound more like lit-crits.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPaul Krugman draws an interesting parallel with Stephen Jay Gould.… Read the rest