New Islamic family law in Malaysia undermines women’s rights.… Read the rest

Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.… Read the rest

The sequences used in Sheldrake’s research are not properly randomized. … Read the rest

In their ‘paranoiac and demonological theology of science’ Lewontin, Kamin and Rose fire both barrels with equal monotony and imprecision: ‘determinism’ and ‘reductionism’. But the gallant little fire brigade has perpetrated a fatuous little book.… Read the rest

Consider Will Crooks, Labour MP. ‘Growing up in extreme poverty…Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand Iliad, and was dazzled…’… Read the rest

A scandal in anthropology is complicated by politics, emotion, prestige – the usual sort of thing.… Read the rest

Washington freed his slaves in his will, Jefferson did not. The reasons of each tell us much about American history.… Read the rest

Women’s groups demand that murderers be treated according to laws of the land and not be allowed to find shelter behind the curtain of ‘culture’. … Read the rest

‘We are born of primordial slime, not at the hands of a benevolent and concerned supreme being who lovingly crafted us from clay.’… Read the rest

‘We’re girls, so we’re less-than-nothings, Priscilla, 17, told Le Monde after her friend Sohane’s death.… Read the rest

Psychoanalysis was never, despite Freud’s ‘positivist rhetoric,’ a science; it was a ‘purely speculative enterprise,’ argues Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen.… Read the rest

Literary criticism, cultural studies; love letter and satire.… Read the rest

If Lentricchia and Said have joined, the revenge of the emeriti may not be so regressive after all.… Read the rest

‘In the clamorous and bloodstained souk of the world…people still go unrepentantly on looking out for good lives’… Read the rest

‘John does know more mathematics, more physics and more engineering than the average biologist. But he also knows more biology than the average biologist.’… Read the rest

Don’t essentialize Indianness, but you’d better get the Real India right.… Read the rest

One can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.… Read the rest

What is the difference between genuine inquiry and the sham and fake variety?… Read the rest

Miller wonders why ‘unavailing Latinate neologisms’ convince so many people that something profound is being said.… Read the rest

Scientists are humorless nerds, and crop circles and crystals are more fun.… Read the rest