Reason & Society

As a peripheral observer of the atheist/ humanist/ skeptics/ secularist movement, who only intermittently keeps up with goings-on in the mov...

Saw the movie (spoiler alert:) Life of Pi yesterday afternoon. It was visually stunning. The acting was superb. The two-hour narrative was ...

I have alternated posts on this topic on this blog and on my Studies in a Dying Culture blog.  The latest post on the latter blog is: Glo...

My introduction to Paul Nizan was via his indictment of establishment philosophy, The Watchdogs: Philosophers and the Established Order . T...

Paul Nizan (7 February 1905 – 23 May 1940) was an eminent French writer, an erstwhile Communist, who left the party as a reaction to the So...

Bildung and Critical Theory facing Post-modernity by Ilan Gur-Ze'ev The postmodernity part and the conclusions are insufferable (...

Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech , Critical Horizons by Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler and Saba Mahmoo...

Re-thinking Reason: New Perspectives in Critical Thinking , edited by Kerry S. Walters. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994...

Here are a couple of more pertinent references. Re-enchantment: A New Enlightenment , Editorial by Paul Kurtz, Free Inquiry magazine , Vo...

Is there any end to the pseudo-intellectual diarrhea excreted from France? Is there any academic discipline more devoid of integrity than an...

The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? Slavoj Žižek & John Milbank, edited by Creston Davis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009....