Deputy political editors write science articles.… Read the rest

She has asked authorities to save her from being handed over to a much older relative.… Read the rest

The presence of report in semi-official Saudi newspaper indicates discontent with the religious police.… Read the rest

Fourth since January.… Read the rest

Teenage daughter killed because she married without her family’s consent.… Read the rest

Bias in favor of evidence and reason, apparently.… Read the rest

‘Not an honor crime, or a family crime; this is organized crime.’ So that’s worse?… Read the rest

Faculty had chance to attend ‘Making a Difference: It Begins With You.’ They skipped it.… Read the rest

‘He often quoted the great Dutch historian Peter Geyl, that “history is argument without end”.’… Read the rest

Legislators are not the best people to answer the question ‘What is truth?’ … Read the rest

Since when is writing books and making arguments comparable to mass murder?… Read the rest

When schools impose this theory on children, they violate the human right of free choice.… Read the rest

‘We live in a world that likes things to be mysterious and not explained in detail all the time.’… Read the rest

‘As Britain’s answer to Derrida, Althusser and Deleuze, Eagleton has standards to maintain.’… Read the rest

To have to defend the Enlightenment against an accusation of fundamentalism is pretty ludicrous.… Read the rest

‘When religions enter politics, they have a depressing habit of gravitating towards theocracy.’… Read the rest

Christian and Muslim conservatives unite to block women’s rights and freedom.… Read the rest

‘Adherents to the supernatural explanation of life apparently cannot bear to hear any opposition.’… Read the rest

Evolutionary explanations of the brain are not as politically hazardous as they once were.… Read the rest

Which is odd, since they were sponsored by the Iranian government.… Read the rest