Or as Tom Lehrer put it: Fight fiercely Harvard, fight fight fight: impress them with our prowess, do.… Read the rest

All those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.… Read the rest

Why does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?… Read the rest

There is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.… Read the rest

How ID creationism is wedging its way into the cultural and academic mainstream.… Read the rest

Intellectual elites who gave up their intellectual habits and submitted to the strict rules of ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism or Islamism.… Read the rest

Peer-review committee said he hadn’t provided ‘adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of evolution, and not intelligent-design theory, was correct.’… Read the rest

Where did all the French feminists go?… Read the rest

Anti-science is a revolt wherein second-rate scholarship is parlayed into tenured professorships and book contracts.… Read the rest

Be as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.… Read the rest

The bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!… Read the rest

Many faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation… Read the rest

‘I found a dimpled spider, fat and white…’… Read the rest

Attentiveness towards others and openness towards truth is still not a matter of common sense in some religious and political cultures.… Read the rest

The Seville Statement on Violence was written in the language of sociopolitical activism, not that of science.… Read the rest

‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’… Read the rest

Rebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims.… Read the rest

OU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t… Read the rest

Greer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.… Read the rest

Laceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’… Read the rest