Norman Geras on a particularity of the Nazi offence against humanity itself.… Read the rest
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Simon Wiesenthal
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘He continued to insist that what he sought was justice, not vengeance.’… Read the rest
Carlin Romano on Probabilism and Possibilism
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Probabilism tends to protect the powerful and often puts the nonpowerful in danger.… Read the rest
Gödel and Einstein
Sep 20th, 2005 |
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Gödel’s theorems do not state that there are absolutely unprovable truths.… Read the rest
PM Adviser Cites ‘Sinister’ Group of Jews, Freemasons
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ahmad Thomson said the group saw Iraq war as a way to control the Middle East.… Read the rest
The MCB and Holocaust Memorial Day
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Which genocides?… Read the rest
Carla del Ponte Accuses Vatican
Sep 20th, 2005 |
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UN prosecutor alleges Vatican is helping Croatian war crimes suspect evade capture.… Read the rest
Simon Wiesenthal
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In all, he was believed to have brought 1100 war criminals to trial.… Read the rest
Simon Wiesenthal Has Died
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Holocaust survivor helped find Nazi war criminals, then fought prejudice against all people.… Read the rest
Iqbal Sacranie on Holocaust Memorial Day
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Mention of ‘intimidating smears of anti-semitism’ in the press, but none of boycott.… Read the rest
Monsieur Freud
Sep 20th, 2005 2:59 am | By Ophelia BensonSo someone has finally told France – psst, Freud kind of got things wrong. Tiens! Sans blague?
… Read the restA war of words has erupted among French psychiatrists after the publication of a “black book” that lambasts the teaching of Sigmund Freud and blames his followers for setting back mental health care in France by decades. In a country that is one of the last redoubts of pure Freudian psychoanalysis, the book has been like shock treatment for many in the white-coat establishment who accuse the authors of grovelling to the “Anglo-Saxon” trend towards behaviour-based mental therapy. The news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, which published extracts of the 800-page work last month, was bombarded with letters charging it with “fascist rhetoric”
Hitchens Comments on the Encounter
Sep 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There is a sick and surreptitious fascination with people of a certain thuggish unscrupulousness.… Read the rest
Rhetoric Trumps Action
Sep 19th, 2005 |
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Bush sounded concerned about poverty, did not mention suspension of wage standards.… Read the rest
‘Faith-based’ Disaster
Sep 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Fema chooses religious charities in preference to secular ones, with dire results.… Read the rest
Reaction to ‘Must We Finish with Psychoanalysis?’
Sep 19th, 2005 |
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In French, but too interesting not to post.… Read the rest
Skepticism About Freud Reaches France
Sep 19th, 2005 |
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To be greeted by accusations of ‘scientism’ and not recognizing human complexity.… Read the rest
Bottom? What Bottom? There is no Bottom
Sep 19th, 2005 1:56 am | By Ophelia BensonSome more bottom.
Belatedly reading the comments on Michael’s piece on Bush’s swell money-saving plan I see that I’m not the only one who experienced genre-confusion. I thought it was all sarcasm, other people thought it was all news. One commenter objected to the mix and to the sarcasm, saying the news is so disgusting that jokes don’t quite play. Michael’s answer is interesting.
… Read the restOK. I’m sorry to be so expository, but here’s the deal. First: I don’t think this post is funny. It wasn’t meant to be funny, and I honestly didn’t imagine that anyone would laugh at it. I did not laugh while I was writing it, for what that’s worth; I wrote it in a cold gray
Scraping the Bottom
Sep 18th, 2005 11:02 pm | By Ophelia BensonThere’s an interesting news article at Michael Bérubé’s place.
… Read the restThe President’s mother, Barbara Bush, pointed out that no-wage contracts can be extremely popular for people devastated by Hurricane Katrina: “What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary,” she remarked on National Public Radio, “is that some of them are singing with happiness. And many of them were idle anyway, so this could work out very well for them.”
President Bush did not say which industries would be eligible for the contracts, but one White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, remarked that the affected areas were ideal for growing cotton, and “cotton is a really great fabric in all kinds of weather—light, comfortable, versatile. I think we’ll need
Bush’s Suspension of Wage Law May be Illegal
Sep 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He was in such a hurry he forgot to declare a national emergency. … Read the rest
Bush Suspends Wage Protection Law
Sep 18th, 2005 |
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Help the poor recover from Katrina by cutting their wages.… Read the rest