Arab and Islamic scholarship is dying in the west; Edward Said must share the blame.… Read the rest

Cosmopolitanism in action.… Read the rest

Teenage stepdaughter-wives may hope not.… Read the rest

Guy seems to have freedom confused with tax-supported.… Read the rest

‘Parents from other faiths tend to like Christian schools because religion and faith are woven into the school.’… Read the rest

Policies that led Begg to be treated outside the law have weakened US claim to moral superiority.… Read the rest

For biologist David Sloan Wilson, evolution is the core curriculum for all academic disciplines.… Read the rest

Any love object – a person, a religious creed, the Red Sox – prompts outrage at skepticism.… Read the rest

Tom Cruise says he never said what somebody said he said.… Read the rest

Scientists react angrily; university plans to concentrate on other areas, such as media.… Read the rest

Respect for others’ beliefs as the highest value leaves two choices: patronizing or relativizing.… Read the rest

In actual humans, we find not logic but all manner of irrational, self-sabotaging, even altruistic behavior.… Read the rest

‘If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.’… Read the rest

‘To put cruelty first, therefore, is to be at odds with both religion and politics.’… Read the rest

Enlightenment values again under threat from fundamentalism, terrorism, concentration of media power.… Read the rest

‘Our own history makes us only too familiar with the dogmatism and fanaticism we see in Islam.’… Read the rest

Their behaviour is ‘veiled’: they must not laugh or speak loudly, nor move freely.… Read the rest

But possessive jealousies of particular claimants pose huge obstacles to our common inheritance.… Read the rest

Dennett, Armstrong, Williams, Ruthven discuss.… Read the rest

Everyone thinks it’s stupid and bad and awful. Very pleasing.… Read the rest