Where did all the French feminists go?… Read the rest
Paul Gross Reviews Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIncreasing involvement of philosophers with evolutionary biology testifies to the emergence of the discipline to the center of public interest in science.… Read the rest
No Need for Facts When You Have Faith
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonYou can be certain and be wrong.… Read the rest
Jews in US Academia since World War II
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTaken for granted now, but it hasn’t always been.… Read the rest
The Catcher in the Rye is a crap book.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonExecrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.… Read the rest
Tony Sewell and Lee Jasper on racism and school.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWe need to challenge a youth culture that thinks to do well in school is ‘to act white.’… Read the rest
Gangsta Rap Culture Not Such a Good Thing?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEducation has been portrayed as ‘white’ – what use is it when strutting the streets?… Read the rest
Derek Freeman Replies
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAd hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.… Read the rest
Derek Freeman or Margaret Mead?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOne can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.… Read the rest
Ni Putes ni Soumises
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘We’re girls, so we’re less-than-nothings, Priscilla, 17, told Le Monde after her friend Sohane’s death.… Read the rest
Irfan Khawaja takes issue with Daniel Pipes
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMilitant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.… Read the rest
Naomi Weisstein defends the beanie hat
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWe need to know what’s out there so that we can change it.… Read the rest
Lee Smith on Tariq Ramadan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Ramadan is a cold-blooded Islamist who believes that Islam is the cure for the malaise wrought by liberal values.’… Read the rest
Brian Appleyard’s Understanding the Present reviewed.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’… Read the rest
Thomas Nagel on the Sleep of Reason
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEerily patient explanations from Sokal and Bricmont of why gibberish is gibberish.… Read the rest
Norman Geras on Minimum Utopia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe facts of widespread human privation and those of political oppression and atrocity are available to all who want them.… Read the rest
NAGPRA and the Demon-haunted World
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNAGPRA proceeds from an antievolutionary perspective grounded in fundamentalist religious belief.… Read the rest
Norman Levitt on Kennewick Man.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNAGPRA is a well-intentioned piece of legislation that has grown into a monster of anti-scientific bias.… Read the rest
Rigoberta Menchu
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Whenever you’re told that you shouldn’t look into something, for some people, that is a very clear directive that you ought to keep looking.’… Read the rest
Multicultural Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBernard Ortiz De Montellano on gibberish dressed up as education.… Read the rest