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The truth about language

by Joe Palmer

[ july 06 ]

Monoglot incuriosity, polyglot confusion & certain inalienable rights...

Enron's good fight

by Paul Rogat Loeb

[ june 06 ]

"Enron traders bragged about stealing from 'grandma Millie', and jamming their $250 a megawatt hour power 'right up her ass'. So maybe those were the fights Skilling referred to."

The four fundamentalisms and the threat to sustainable democracy

by Robert Jensen

[ june 06 ]

"fundamentalism is an extreme form of hubris, a delusional overconfidence not only in one's beliefs but in the ability of humans to know much of anything definitively."

India 2010

by Timeri N Murari

[ april 06 ]

Power certainly corrupts and Superpower corrupts totally.

What’s got the non God squad so cross?

by Noel Rooney

[ april 06 ]

"The profession of secular atheism by people who are more properly described as liberal humanists is a propinquitous heresy, relating ironically to the neo-con orthodoxy."

God is not intelligent

by Joe Palmer

[ april 06 ]

Intelligent Design is an attractively simple creation myth.

In defense of Islam

by Joe Palmer

[ january 06 ]

"A religion is no more an honest category for sorting people than sexual preference is an illness. An ayatollah is as much a man as a pope, and just as mad."

Blasphemy in Narnia

by CS Lewis

[ december 05 ]

A previously unpublished letter shows that the author of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe would have vehemently rejected adaptation.

Deus Absconditus [after Simone Weil]

by Joe Palmer

[ december 05 ]

"The Lord of Hosts is the Lord of Flies too. He has to be. It makes no sense to claim that omnipotent God is only good. "

Translating a tragedy

by Noel Rooney

[ november 05 ]

Media and state reactions to the shooting of Sharon Beshenivsky and Teresa Milburn