Officials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot… 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.
The Pope is also a head of state, and that’s bad
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well… Read the rest
Law angers women’s rights campaigners
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNew Islamic family law in Malaysia undermines women’s rights.… Read the rest
HRW on Women’s Rights
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonViolence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.… Read the rest
Sheldrake’s staring effect
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe sequences used in Sheldrake’s research are not properly randomized. … Read the rest
Denis Donoghue Reviews Illness as Metaphor.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonImpatient with nuances and discriminations that would impede the march of her argument.… Read the rest
Arguments from Incredulity and Gödel
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Basically, Godel’s theorems prove the Doctrine of Original Sin, the need for the sacrament of penance, and that there is a future eternity.’… Read the rest
About Patrick Henry College
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSocialism is a violation of God’s creation order.… Read the rest
Rushdie on ‘joke’ Islamic leaders
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSays there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world. … Read the rest
So where are these powerful arguments?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAlister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist… Read the rest
Islamisation in Malaysia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSecularists, women’s rights campaigners, minorities not pleased.… Read the rest
What segregated education does
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEntrenches the opinions of parents.… Read the rest
Seyran Ates on multiculturalism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonI 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
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 BensonEinstein’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 BensonHighly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.… Read the rest
Human Rights Watch on the religious revival
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights… Read the rest
Kenan Malik’s Debate with Steve Fuller
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf 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 BensonHer 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 BensonIf 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