Anyone baptised using terms such as “Creator”, “Redeemer” and “Sanctifier” would have to be re-baptised using the traditional ceremony.… Read the rest
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
Katha Pollitt on Palin the Affirmative Action Babe 
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There’s the fun of watching conservative pundits scramble to deny the obvious.… Read the rest
John Stachel on recurrent hostility to Einstein
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Relativity has been attacked in the name of US pragmatism, German idealism, English Hegelianism, French Bergsonianism (by fellow Jew Henri Bergson!), Soviet “diamat” (dialectical materialism) and Nazi “Deutsche Physik”… Read the rest
Cambridge Mosque press release [on mosque site]
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Cites sorrow and anger, demands apology for insult to honour of prophet. … Read the rest
Postmodernism and Fabrication of History
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Historians are always making up figures,’ said Lyndall Ryan. Oh really?… Read the rest
Michelle Goldberg on the Dover trial
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Emboldened by their growing political power, religious conservatives are once again storming the barricades of science education. … Read the rest
Women constantly under threat in Afghanistan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The state cannot protect women and ensure that they can go about their work safely. … Read the rest
Little help available for minors fleeing FLDS
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Service providers cannot help them because they’re minors and runaways. … Read the rest
Charles Murray is Deeply in Love With Sarah Palin
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.… Read the rest
Afsan Chowdhury on the shadow citizens
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Being gay in Bangladesh isn’t easy.… Read the rest
Joel Achenbach on Carl Sagan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.… Read the rest
Confessions of a Lonely Atheist
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Natalie Angier unimpressed by Bush’s assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks Vapo Rub for the national charley horse.… Read the rest
Massimo Puglicci reads Stanley Fish on atheism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Another demonstration that atheism is simply not permissible.… Read the rest
God v Science
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What is so good about having faith when you don’t have evidence? What is the real advantage to that? Why is this something that we want to encourage?… Read the rest
WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA statement on FGM
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Confirming the universally unacceptable harm caused by FGM, and issuing an unqualified call for the elimination of this practice in all its forms.… Read the rest
Reading Karen Armstrong
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
History is for Karen Armstrong not so much putty as Playdoh.… Read the rest
Katha Pollitt talks to Der Spiegel
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Feminism created a new normal. … Read the rest
M V Ramana on gay rights in South Asia
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The strongly patriarchal nature of South Asian societies ensures even worse treatment for lesbians than for gay men.… Read the rest
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Right to Offend
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Today, the open society is challenged by Islamism’… Read the rest
