We’re predisposed to find cracks in evidence that suggests we should do something we don’t want to do.… Read the rest

Accuses the league of using national sovereignty to remain silent about human rights violations.… Read the rest

‘It’s a very bad practice. It’s cruel, it traumatises people, it’s led children to drop out of school.’… Read the rest

The government treats ‘faith’ as a problem, an oddity. Shock horror!… Read the rest

Theodicy involves justifying horrors.… Read the rest

The Qur’an has plenty of verses hostile to women, but if you spend most of your life at it, you can……… Read the rest

The church should compensate all the people whose lives it wrecked. That’s a lot of people.… Read the rest

Yes, anthroposophy seems a bit odd, but not to worry, because.… Read the rest

Relying on bad science to justify educational choices is a truly sorry situation.… Read the rest

About three million women and girls undergo FGM globally every year; nearly 140 million already have.… Read the rest

Always asking how we know what we claim to know – it’s so obnoxious.… Read the rest

And the barmaid to cover up.… Read the rest

‘No one has taken responsibility for what went on in Dublin. There is no accountability.’… Read the rest

ACLU and others sign statement chastising Yale for not including the cartoons in Jytte Klausen’s book.… Read the rest

On the peculiar form of naïve rationalism that currently labels itself the ‘rational actor’ approach.… Read the rest

Now that it’s all been public, he expresses ‘his profound regret.’ Too late, diddums.… Read the rest

Women don’t want to argue about what’s true, we just want to get along. Not.… Read the rest

Six of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics, but it’s impermissible to talk about that.… Read the rest

Nine men kidnapped a woman, held her prisoner, and sentenced her to death by stoning for ‘adultery.’… Read the rest

Lawyers argue that the ban breaches several articles of the European convention on human rights.… Read the rest