How to read it when mass secular leftist movements no longer propel dreams of social justice?… Read the rest
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Roy Hattersley Reviews Book on T H Green 
Feb 28th, 2005 |
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‘The Labour party has always been short of philosophers’; Green is essential reading.… Read the rest
Camus and Sartre: Friendship and Influence
Feb 28th, 2005 |
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Sartre the philosopher who dabbled in literature, Camus the writer who dabbled in philosophy.… Read the rest
Who is This ‘Christian Voice’ Gang?
Feb 28th, 2005 |
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Tiny group gets attention by being absurd.… Read the rest
‘Christian Voice’ Plans to Target Abortion Clinics
Feb 28th, 2005 |
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Because women should be indoors under authority of father then husband.… Read the rest
An Abstract and a Party
Feb 28th, 2005 3:37 am | By Ophelia BensonAnd a little humour. Philip Stott tells us about a seminal new paper on climate change.
… Read the restAbstract: the much-studied ‘Forest Period’ (Fp) persisted in southern England for only the briefest of geological time, being conservatively-dated to between October 14th, 1926 and October 11th, 1928, although some scholars argue that ‘Forest’ remnants may have survived on, and around, tumuli, or small mounds [see: Margot Mythenmaker, 1958. “The utopia of ‘enchanted places’ revisited.” The Panenic Review, Vol. 56(2), [1958] 1959, pp. 3-9]…
Despite the undoubted geological brevity of the ‘Forest Period’, Kaninchen postulates that it is possible to recognise no fewer than seven (7) different climatic phases (Phases FpI to FpVII) for the ‘Forest Period’ (Fp):
(a) Phase
With But a Single Thought
Feb 28th, 2005 12:22 am | By Ophelia BensonAnd speaking of self-fulfilling prophecies…We were speaking of them the other day in High Tension and ever since I keep bumping into them. You know how that goes, when you mention something or learn a new word and immediately afterward it’s everywhere. It’s been happening to me with that word ‘quotidian’ which I was told is a very rare, peculiar word – I keep hearing and reading it. It doesn’t seem to be all that rare. And self-fulfilling prophecy is everywhere too. There was that Robert Frank article in the NY Times a few days ago (which unfortunately has now gone into the archive and which the link generator never generated a link for, so I can’t quote from … Read the rest
Watch Out! Stop Eating! Throw Up!
Feb 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Everything is dangerous, everything is toxic, there is no safe level, we’re all doomed.… Read the rest
Gender, Brains, Expectations, Numbers
Feb 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Studies show brain differences, also that beliefs affect test performance.… Read the rest
More From Amnesty International on its Founder
Feb 27th, 2005 |
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Spanish orphans and trade unionists, German Jews, Greek Cypriots, Portuguese political prisoners…… Read the rest
Amnesty International on Peter Benenson
Feb 27th, 2005 |
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‘In 2005 his legacy is a world wide movement for human rights which will never die.’… Read the rest
Peter Benenson 1921-2005
Feb 27th, 2005 |
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His 1961 newspaper article ‘The Forgotten Prisoners’ changed the world for the better. … Read the rest
Bush Admin Science Advisor Gets One Thing Right
Feb 26th, 2005 |
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John Marburger stated point blank, ‘Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory.’… Read the rest
Dynamic Behind Campus Free-speech Fights
Feb 26th, 2005 |
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Parochial argument turned into national banquet for right-wingers hungry for culture enemies.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee Goes to Derrida Conference
Feb 26th, 2005 |
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Where Jack Balkin suggests that Bush has hoisted Derrida by his own aporias.… Read the rest
Did Larry Summers Have a Cunning Plan?
Feb 26th, 2005 |
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If not, he wasn’t doing his job and doesn’t know what it is, Stanley Fish says.… Read the rest
A C Grayling Reviews Fuller on Popper and Kuhn
Feb 26th, 2005 |
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Popper’s promotion of critical spirit of scientific enquiry preferable to Kuhn’s incommensurability.… Read the rest
First, Do No Harm
Feb 26th, 2005 |
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Next, get agreement on what will do harm. Best of luck!… Read the rest
Richard Dawkins on the Giant Tortoise’s Tale
Feb 26th, 2005 |
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Islands provide the barrier to sexual intermingling that evolution needs.… Read the rest
Beliefs Should Precede ‘Positioning’
Feb 25th, 2005 |
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Michael Tomasky: Democrats just don’t talk about fundamental ideas enough.… Read the rest
