We wouldn’t tolerate this misogyny on the bus, or in a cafe, or at school or at work or in a pub, so why are we allowing it to happen online?… Read the rest

“Maybe US Bank no longer has any of the $20 billion dollars left, and so their lack of written explanation might be attributed to some kind of ink reduction program to save money.”… Read the rest

Ultra-Orthodox rabbis are trying to contain the encroachment of secular values through a fierce backlash against the mixing of the sexes in public.… Read the rest

The men were found guilty of murdering a Dalit boy and a girl from a higher caste who had eloped together, and the boy’s cousin. All three were set on fire and hanged.… Read the rest

To finance gambling trips to Atlantic City. But she’s really really sorry, so no jail time for her.… Read the rest

Rand’s popularity has surged in recent years as conservatives repeatedly invoked her to counter Obama’s “Socialist” agenda.… Read the rest

Some of the most respected evangelical discipline gurus have not just made beating children “respectable” in conservative religious circles, but even turned it into a godly activity.… Read the rest

David Colquhoun is unimpressed with the growth in “quack” courses.… Read the rest

A Republican state senator inserted a carve-out for a “sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction” in the Senate version of the bill.… Read the rest

Sexualization is a feminist issue, and a masculinist issue. Much of our unhealthy obsession with sexuality comes from a rebellion against inhibition and guilt.… Read the rest

British viewers will see seven episodes, the last of which deals with global warming. Viewers in other countries, including the US, will see only the first six episodes.… Read the rest

The “10-minute bride” told the BBC that she wanted other “dowry-oppressed women”
in Bangladesh to be inspired by her actions.… Read the rest

“To give up the use of the rod is to give up our views of human nature, God, eternity,” the Pearls write in their book.… Read the rest

Why are we still talking about how to treat certain types of people as intellectual equals?… Read the rest

Every conception of toleration identifies limits to what deserves toleration. No advocate of toleration recommends that we tolerate bands of armed fascists.… Read the rest

“Facebook has just discovered opportunely that Charlie Hebdo ‘is not a real person’, something that breaks the site’s rules,” RSF said in a statement.… Read the rest

Does one live the lives one has written as much as one writes about lives one has known?… Read the rest

Zainab, Sahar and their sister Geeti, just 13, fought ferociously for their small freedoms.… Read the rest

A theory so flexible it can rationalize any outcome is a pseudoscientific theory.… Read the rest

It is not only in Ghana where those accused of witchcraft are banished or maltreated. In Burkina Faso, hundreds of elderly women accused of witchcraft are also living in camps.… Read the rest