The reporter who investigated what happened at the Baghdad Museum says the waters are still being muddied.… Read the rest
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Bristol Reaffirms Admissions Policy 
Jun 19th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bristol University will continue to consider backgrounds as well as academic records.… Read the rest
A Psychologist’s Choice
Jun 18th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Authoritarian cults that demand sensitivity or else, or hard-headed researchers who ask questions.… Read the rest
Atwood on Orwell
Jun 18th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
How quickly rebels can move to the other side.… Read the rest
Virginia Woolf Being Unpleasant
Jun 18th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Woolf’s early notebook reveals – surprise! – she had her flaws.… Read the rest
How We Do Love Female Victims
Jun 18th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Virginia Woolf told jokes, including obscene ones, Doris Lessing points out.… Read the rest
A Rich and Moving Elegy
Jun 17th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Richard Wollheim on Bernard Williams in The Independent.… Read the rest
Not New but Timely
Jun 17th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
An interview with Bernard Williams in the Guardian last November.… Read the rest
Grayling on Williams
Jun 16th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A.C. Grayling on Bernard Williams in The Financial Times.… Read the rest
Williams in The Times
Jun 15th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Another good obituary essay on Williams’ work and why it mattered.… Read the rest
Who Would Mate With Rational Economic Man?
Jun 15th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is Feminist Economics less silly than it sounds?… Read the rest
Daniel Dennett Interview
Jun 15th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The spectre of creeping exculpation, the discomfort of discontinuity, and more.… Read the rest
The Arts and Cultural Diversity
Jun 15th, 2003 | By Jatinder VermaImmigrant, ethnic minority, asylum-seeker – slivers of insinuation separate
the meanings of each term in contemporary Britain. Ethnic minority, black and
Asian, cultural diversity – clouds of obfuscation have distinguished contemporary
arts in Britain over the past 30 years.
That I draw an analogy between socio-political and artistic terminology is
not incidental: socio-political concerns have determined arts-funding policy
for the past three decades. Ever since, in fact, the publication of Naseem Khan’s
seminal report for the Arts Council in 1976, ‘The Arts Britain Ignores’. This
year sees the launch of yet another arts initiative, designed to heap attention
on ‘culturally diverse’ arts, aptly titled ‘decibel’ (noise). Why do we need
a showcase of ethnic arts? And what noise is decibel… Read the rest
Bernard Williams
Jun 14th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘He deconstructed as Derrida would do if he were cleverer and more pledged to truth,’ says the Guardian.… Read the rest
Williams in The Telegraph
Jun 13th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘He wanted a moral philosophy that was accountable not only to psychology but also to other branches of human enquiry, especially history.’… Read the rest
What the Koran Really Says
Jun 13th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ibn Warraq calls for critical thought and a sceptical attitude in reading the Koran.… Read the rest
Nonsense, Not True, Made Up, Bollocks
Jun 12th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
David Aaronovitch on the looting of Iraq’s antiquities and how it was reported.… Read the rest
Judgment Is Not Censorship
Jun 11th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Student editors and Harvard English department not heroes but confused, says Stanley Fish.… Read the rest
The Tasaday
Jun 10th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Feuds within anthroplogy, questions about authenticity, palm leaves versus T shirts.… Read the rest
Alan Wolfe on ‘Diversity’
Jun 10th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What Americans think diversity is and what they think it isn’t.… Read the rest
