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Einstein’s Wife: Mileva Marić
Feel-good history strikes again.

Hindutva on the Attack
Campaigns to silence, intimidate, or destroy scholars and scholarship.

Cultural Relativism
Tolerance can conflict with opposition to caste violence and other injustice.

Muslim-born woman detained for 'rehabilitation' from Hinduism
Islamic officials seized her baby from her Hindu husband last month.

Injustice in Malaysia
Subjecting Hindu women to Sharia courts is not justice.

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Last Updated:02-06-2007

Bad Moves
Philosopher Julian Baggini's column on bad argumentative moves.
Last Updated:25-10-2005

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Nigel Warburton Interviews Michael Clark
What a paradox is and why philosophers should be interested in them.
Date filed: 02-06-2007

Mark Perakh Reviews Stephen Barr
Good physics, bad arguments that science is 'the friend of faith.'
Date filed: 02-06-2007

What Senator Brownback 'Thinks' on Evolution
'Faith seeks to purify reason so that we might be able to see more clearly, not less.'
Date filed: 02-06-2007

Iran Promoting Temporary 'Marriages'
There are already tens of thousands of children from temporary marriages whose fathers deny them.
Date filed: 02-06-2007

Why the Boycott is Stupid
The academy is the arena for debate; the sharper that is, the more likely that truth is what will emerge.
Date filed: 02-06-2007

Why Islamic Hijab
By Jahanshah Rashidian
What are the origins of the hijab?
Date filed: 31-05-2007

Descartes’ Meditations (Digested)
By Julian Baggini
A busy week for M. Descartes
Date filed: 23-05-2007

Atheists Versus Theists
By D. R. Khashaba
Humans need a ‘likely tale’ to hold on to, to give the chaotic mass of their experiential content some coherence.
Date filed: 20-05-2007

Bangladesh: Release Tasneem Khalil
By Human Rights Watch
Journalist and Rights Activist arrested by army. Make a loud noise.
Date filed: 10-05-2007

An Essay on Man: A Trumpet Blast Against the "New" Humanism
By R Joseph Hoffmann
What the New Humanism isn't about is the intellectual self-confidence that calls faulty judgment faulty
Date filed: 23-04-2007

Five Questions About Clarity
By Stephen Law asks Nigel Warburton
Why does clarity matter?
Date filed: 23-04-2007

We Aim to Misbehave
By P Z Myers
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.
Date filed: 22-04-2007

We say no to a medieval Kurdistan
By Houzan Mahmoud
'Here and now in Kurdistan we are facing the forced Islamisation of people's lives.'
Date filed: 21-04-2007

Fashionable Dictionary
Your guide to the language of pseudoscience and fashionable nonsense.

Woolly-Thinking Rhetoric
How to argue like a sheep. Vanquish your enemies with the help of our guide.

Quotations
'Let them speak for themselves', people often cry out (apparently). So we have.

Euphemisms and Obfuscations
Renaming and Relabelling. How to speak so that you don't offend.

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