Jane Kramer on French feminism. *

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Where did all the French feminists go?… Read the rest



Paul Gross Reviews Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest *

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Increasing 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 *

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You can be certain and be wrong.… Read the rest



Jews in US Academia since World War II *

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Taken for granted now, but it hasn’t always been.… Read the rest



The Catcher in the Rye is a crap book. *

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Execrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.… Read the rest



Tony Sewell and Lee Jasper on racism and school. *

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We 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? *

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Education has been portrayed as ‘white’ – what use is it when strutting the streets?… Read the rest



Derek Freeman Replies *

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Ad hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.… Read the rest



Derek Freeman or Margaret Mead? *

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One can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.… Read the rest



Ni Putes ni Soumises *

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‘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 *

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Militant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.… Read the rest



Naomi Weisstein defends the beanie hat *

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We need to know what’s out there so that we can change it.… Read the rest



Lee Smith on Tariq Ramadan *

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‘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. *

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‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’… Read the rest



Thomas Nagel on the Sleep of Reason *

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Eerily patient explanations from Sokal and Bricmont of why gibberish is gibberish.… Read the rest



Norman Geras on Minimum Utopia *

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The 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 *

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NAGPRA proceeds from an antievolutionary perspective grounded in fundamentalist religious belief.… Read the rest



Norman Levitt on Kennewick Man. *

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NAGPRA is a well-intentioned piece of legislation that has grown into a monster of anti-scientific bias.… Read the rest



Rigoberta Menchu *

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‘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 *

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Bernard Ortiz De Montellano on gibberish dressed up as education.… Read the rest