Lecture on Islamic anti-Semitism was cancelled after complaints from Muslim students.… Read the rest

Invisibility has its benefits, perhaps, but the costs are far greater.… Read the rest

How does a post-human condition alter the relationship between self and other, inside and outside?… Read the rest

Most of the people there represent NGOs that work for women’s empowerment around the world. … Read the rest

Half the world’s population remains excluded from decision-making along gender lines.… Read the rest

Misogyny and homophobia tolerated in the name of ‘maintaining harmonious community relations.’ … Read the rest

Why does humiliation lead to such disproportional will to violence and slaughter?… Read the rest

Growing up in societies in which survival is uncertain is conducive to a strong emphasis on religion.… Read the rest

University said it cancelled a lecture on ‘Islamic anti-semitism’ on security grounds.… Read the rest

Shadi Sadr, Mahbubeh Abbasgholizadeh, and Jila Baniyaghoub are still in ward 209 of Evin Prison.… Read the rest

As if the solution to stupidity is to inhibit public discourse.… Read the rest

Says the beating he received at the hands of police should be an ‘inspiration’ for the struggle.… Read the rest

Everyone agrees he was a major postmodernist thinker, without defining that.… Read the rest

Yes? Horrors! Give it Ritalin!… Read the rest

‘The deafness of many philosophers, social scientists and historians to the spiritual dimension can be remarkable.’… Read the rest

‘It is neither necessary nor desirable to dumb our projects down when writing for a general audience.’… Read the rest

Nerd on Jane Austen’s Emma.… Read the rest

The more arbitrary the discipline, the more it works to reinforce belief in the cause. … Read the rest

In a sin culture even the suspicion of hypocrisy in the messenger is enough to harm the message.… Read the rest

Maybe the world is the product of one aspect of biology, the mind, and not the other way around.… Read the rest