I want to know, and many thousands of Muslim girls and women have a right to know, why understanding and infinite tolerance is practised with particular cultural traditions that are clearly oppressive of women.… 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.
Profile of Susan Sontag from 1992.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.’… Read the rest
Einstein Wasn’t Writing for Time
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Einstein’s theory of relativity did not spawn artistic modernism and moral relativism, Time magazine to the contrary notwithstanding.… Read the rest
What is Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy?
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.… Read the rest
Human Rights Watch on the religious revival
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights… Read the rest
Kenan Malik’s Debate with Steve Fuller
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If there are two cultures involved in the Sokal affair they are shoddy scholarship on the one side and an attempt at rational thought on the other. … Read the rest
Necla Kelek
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Her life was bound by prohibitions: no swimming, no sports, no playing outdoors and no German friends because they were infidels. She ran away the day her father threatened her with an ax. … Read the rest
Richard Norman on Richard Swinburne
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If belief in God is a matter of ‘faith’ in contrast to reason, there’s nothing to distinguish it from mere wishful thinking.… Read the rest
Dawkins interview
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
On atheism and evidence for God… Read the rest
Pragna Patel on the Impact of Fundamentalism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Women in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.… Read the rest
Hazlitt
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
His obscurity is a depressing lesson in contemporary cultural memory.… Read the rest
Visiting Preacher Killen
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘If You Don’t Believe in God, the Hellfire Awaits You.’… Read the rest
Muslim Council of Britain unable to attend Holocaust Memorial day
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Because it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’… Read the rest
Nigerian State Segregates Travel
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’… Read the rest
WAF Replies to Tariq Modood
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Communities of interest are not born; they are made, and construct themselves, according to prevalent ideologies.… Read the rest
Hitchens on ‘Mother Teresa’
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Misdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…… Read the rest
Daughters of France, Daughters of Allah
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Marie Brenner on forced marriage, violence, imprisonment of women.… Read the rest
Simon Blackburn on Richard Rorty
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Rorty has a gift for ducking and weaving and laying smoke… Read the rest
Noam Chomsky’s ‘Rationality/Science’
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘these attributions scarcely rise to the level of a caricature of rational inquiry’… Read the rest
Evidence and persuasion
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Robert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaire… Read the rest