Simon Blackburn interview *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

On truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume… Read the rest



Silence over Afghan women’s rights *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Widows starve, refugees are beaten, rape victims are beaten… Read the rest



Evidence and persuasion *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Robert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaireRead the rest



Muslim Council of Britain unable to attend Holocaust Memorial day *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Because it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’… Read the rest



Human Rights Watch on the religious revival *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights… Read the rest



Rushdie on ‘joke’ Islamic leaders *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Says there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world. … Read the rest



Polio outbreak in Indonesia *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Officials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot… Read the rest



Manufactured Consensus? *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

If political considerations dictate what gets published, it’s all over for science.… Read the rest



Amnesty International on ‘honour’ killings in Pakistan *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Dr Tahira Shahid Khan says ‘Women are considered the property of the males in their family irrespective of their class, ethnic or religious group. The owner of the property has the right to decide its fate. The concept of ownership has turned women into a commodity’… Read the rest



Women Against Fundamentalisms *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

WAF was launched in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions.… Read the rest



Ann Cryer: Forced marriages must end *

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Amanda Day talks to Labour MP Ann Cryer about her campaign to win justice for young Asian women.… Read the rest



Empty-headed vehemence of a discouraging kind *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Greer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.… Read the rest



SF, Crypto-fascism and Romanticism *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

The bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!… Read the rest



Barbie looks better with no legs *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Why does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?… Read the rest



Costing an Arm and a Leg *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Mental disorders come and go.… Read the rest



Piers Benn on Islamophobia-phobia *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Many who fear the rise of Islamophobia veer away from critical analysis of Islamic claims and practices, perhaps for fear of what they might find.… Read the rest



Libraries *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Some librarians now post NO SILENCE PLEASE signs as part of their marketing campaigns.… Read the rest



The hegemony of social constructionism *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Mark Bauerlein on the institutional factors behind groupthink.… Read the rest



Noam Chomsky’s ‘Rationality/Science’ *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘these attributions scarcely rise to the level of a caricature of rational inquiry’… Read the rest



Visiting Preacher Killen *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘If You Don’t Believe in God, the Hellfire Awaits You.’… Read the rest