Or rather, a gene for something labeled ‘spirituality.’… Read the rest
Advertising Standards Authority rules out miracle cure ad
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe ASA said Peniel Pentecostal Church had to offer proof at least comparable with that required of makers of washing powder… Read the rest
What is ‘liberal orthodoxy’?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGraham Larkin answers questions from New York Sun… Read the rest
Index to Creationist Claims
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims.… Read the rest
Stalking the Wild Taboo
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAnti-science is a revolt wherein second-rate scholarship is parlayed into tenured professorships and book contracts.… Read the rest
Can White Guys Eat Quiche and Jump?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOr as Tom Lehrer put it: Fight fiercely Harvard, fight fight fight: impress them with our prowess, do.… Read the rest
Julian Baggini considers online collaborations.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHow human relationships are being pushed in new directions by virtual worlds.… Read the rest
Deborah Lipstadt on Holocaust Denial
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDeborah Lipstadt discusses how misinformation and false claims are used to question the reality of the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews.… Read the rest
Ivan Kelly on concepts of modern astrology
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonInterconnectedness, paranormal information transmission, asymmetrical evidence acceptance, aperception of contradiction, and more.… Read the rest
Get an MA in astrology.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA new and exciting advance for the academic world.… Read the rest
Daughters of France, Daughters of Allah
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMarie Brenner on forced marriage, violence, imprisonment of women.… Read the rest
Pragna Patel on the Impact of Fundamentalism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWomen in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.… Read the rest
Profile of Susan Sontag from 1992.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.’… Read the rest
Denis Donoghue Reviews Illness as Metaphor.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonImpatient with nuances and discriminations that would impede the march of her argument.… Read the rest
Politeness on ‘In Our Time’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Spectator, coffee houses, no swords, drawing rooms, books, mixing, nobility and gentry, Boswell’s dirty breeches, and much more.… Read the rest
A ‘Museum Different’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe exhibit’s commentary is limited to comments like ‘Respect and sharing of your self is very important.’… Read the rest
An Unlikely Communion of Socialists and Islamists
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘…they hide the atheism at the core of leftist politics in order to pursue a blatant get–rich–quick electoral scheme.’… Read the rest
BHL Too Fashionable, French Intellectuals Report
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAuthors motivated by impatience with relentless self-promotion and unquestioning adulation of French media.… Read the rest
As Miss World Turns
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women’s bodies.… Read the rest
Richard Wolin on Derrida
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’… Read the rest