Never before has so much Darwin material been brought together in one place and made available free of charge.… Read the rest
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Darwin’s Complete Works to Go Online
Oct 18th, 2006 |
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Cambridge makes the whole shooting match available for free.… Read the rest
Turkish Archaeologist Faces Trial
Oct 18th, 2006 |
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Wrote scientific article about hijab; prosecutor charged her with ‘inciting hatred based on religious differences.’… Read the rest
Interview with Stephen Law
Oct 18th, 2006 |
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We need citizens raised to think and question.… Read the rest
‘Faith’ Schools Must Cross Religious Barriers
Oct 18th, 2006 |
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By being secular schools? No, by having quotas for ‘other faiths’.… Read the rest
Nadia Jamal on Veils, Faces, and Different Rules
Oct 18th, 2006 |
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If the beach is good enough for men, it should be good enough for women too.… Read the rest
Older Students Still Required to ‘Worship’
Oct 18th, 2006 |
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‘The Government’s refusal is an abuse of Human Rights,’ says Keith Porteous Wood.… Read the rest
Iran Bans Fast Internet Service
Oct 18th, 2006 |
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Iran filters more websites than any other country apart from China. … Read the rest
A C Grayling on Books on Friendships
Oct 17th, 2006 |
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Sages of quite different traditions extol friendship as the highest link in the social web.… Read the rest
More on Free Speech in the US
Oct 17th, 2006 |
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Launch party for Carmen Callil’s book cancelled because of comment about Israel.… Read the rest
Two Faces of Arab Intellectuals
Oct 17th, 2006 |
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Khalid al-Maaly on a carefully masked double standard.… Read the rest
Harry Kreissler Talks to Martha Nussbaum
Oct 17th, 2006 |
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‘I think it’s obvious that traditional religions have given women a second class status in pretty much every case.’… Read the rest
Hamid Dabashi Accuses Azar Nafisi
Oct 17th, 2006 |
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‘To me there is no difference between Lynndie England and Azar Nafisi,’ he told Z-net.… Read the rest
Without being co-opted
Oct 16th, 2006 11:31 pm | By Ophelia BensonAccording to The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University, read Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker article, about the Bush admin’s plans to whack Iran, with dismay.
… Read the restThe article prompted him to dust off an essay that he had written a few years before and publish it in the June 1 edition of the Egyptian English-language newspaper Al-Ahram. His target? Not President Bush or the Pentagon, but Azar Nafisi, author of the best-selling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran…His blistering essay cast Ms. Nafisi as a collaborator in the Bush administration’s plans for regime change in Iran. He drew heavily on the late scholar Edward Said’s ideas about the
Meet the authors
Oct 16th, 2006 5:50 pm | By Ophelia BensonSee Jeremy and Julian being silly – I mean having a serious (albeit brief) discussion of aesthetics, elitism, cuisine, jazz, preferences, and alphabetization.… Read the rest
Religion and Rationality
Oct 16th, 2006 5:38 pm | By Ophelia BensonMartin Newland tells us plaintively that ‘these days people find it hard to accept that religion and rationality can co-exist.’ Well, maybe; some people; other people clearly find it very easy. And as for ‘these days’, I would say the social pressure is running more in the other direction ‘these days’ than it did, say, twenty years ago. But maybe by ‘these days’ Newland means ‘these past three hundred years’.
At any rate, he shows us how well religion and rationality can co-exist.
… Read the restI am a Roman Catholic. As such, I believe that God took the decision to be born into a poor family in Roman-occupied Palestine. I believe that His short life on earth was spent setting down the
David Thompson on the ‘Phobia’ Ploy
Oct 16th, 2006 |
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Once beliefs become identity, disagreement becomes racism, and silence falls.… Read the rest
Islamism in Europe
Oct 16th, 2006 |
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Artists and leftists warn that the rise of radical Islam threatens European liberalism.… Read the rest
Bush Advisors Called Evangelicals ‘Nuts’
Oct 16th, 2006 |
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And goofy; but of course those are terms of endearment.… Read the rest
Martin Newland Reports he is Catholic and Sane
Oct 16th, 2006 |
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Then provides details.… Read the rest