Woolly types who think victims are always morally pristine will be irritated.… Read the rest

‘a truth is a collective action on the part of persons who campaign together’… Read the rest

Criticism of religion is not racism.… Read the rest

It’s about doing some good, not about feeling pure and pious.… Read the rest

Influence of Opus Dei will mean difference between life and death for thousands of poor people.… Read the rest

Jetlag Guide to Molvania, where the waiters can’t be faulted, as they’re armed.… Read the rest

Homa Arjomand points out girls are segregated then forced to marry men twice their age. … Read the rest

He felt obliged to speak for the unheard, which could tempt him to be propagandistic.… Read the rest

Ancient religious texts shouldn’t form the basis of social policy now.… Read the rest

Child helped make abundance, variety and luxury available for everyone.… Read the rest

Poet, essayist and opponent of mental captivity.… Read the rest

Gossip as a form of knowledge? Don’t you mean ‘knowledge’?… Read the rest

The binding problem of perception has implications for free will and agency.… Read the rest

Ishtiaq Ahmed says contemporary Islamic notions of revolution value a pristine state of the past.… Read the rest

Almost indestructible ideological commitment that led communists to deny what they saw.… Read the rest

Narrow but not focused, high-table rambling, platitudinous, repetitious…… Read the rest

But still ‘Sometimes Eagleton sounds like a don passing fruity high-table judgments’… Read the rest

What if India hadn’t been partitioned, Rajiv hadn’t unlocked Babri Masjid, Gandhi had lived, India had become a Hindu theocracy?… Read the rest

Self-righteous anger merely a cover for indifference bred by failure.… Read the rest

Justice Department forbidding DNA tests, limiting access.… Read the rest