Even though in my last post I tried to describe the movement towards “doing scholarship in public” that forms a background for three different levels of academic fights these days, it still seems sometimes like the “humanities is a waste of time” fight remains the most salient. After all, if one takes that waste of [...]
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Libération had an interesting article yesterday about the explosion in popularity in France of foie gras that has also been certified as halal. The stuff is flying off the shelves, apparently. The issue of whether foie gras (which involves torturing the animal before killing it) can actually ever be halal aside, the readings of the [...]
