No longer will opponents of multiculturalism be silenced by reflex accusation of racism.… Read the rest
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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FDA Approves OTC Access for Plan B
Aug 26th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWomen 18 and over can get emergency contraception without prescription; girls under 18 can’t.… Read the rest
Planned Parenthood on Teenage Pregnancy
Aug 26th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDismay at scientifically baseless restrictions that deny teenagers otc access to backup birth control. … Read the rest
Scary Opinions on Politics and Religion
Aug 26th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson69% agreed that liberals have ‘gone too far in trying to keep religion out of schools and government.’… Read the rest
Barriers to Muslim Women in Sports
Aug 26th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHard to swim in a chador.… Read the rest
Don’t Wanna Be Cohered
Aug 26th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOpaque waffle about cohesion and communities on the ground.… Read the rest
Malaysian ‘Apostate’ Under Death Threat
Aug 26th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCivil courts said Malays could not renounce Islam because Constitution defined Malays as Muslims.… Read the rest
Tom Morris on a Confused Reverend
Aug 25th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWho moans about that old canard ‘genetic determinism’.… Read the rest
Pamela Bone: Muslim Sisters Need our Help
Aug 25th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhy do few Western feminists speak out about the cruelty blighting the lives of millions of women?… Read the rest
David Thompson on Cultural Equivalence
Aug 25th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt underlies the fashion for religious protectionism, whereby reason and science are called religions.… Read the rest
Cass Sunstein on Fear as a Political Tool
Aug 25th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonVisceral fear and outrage may lead people to prefer the candidate who seems more aggressive.… Read the rest
Islamists Oppose Rewriting Hudood Ordinance
Aug 25th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWomen must produce four male witnesses to prove rape or risk 100 lashes or death by stoning.… Read the rest
Focus on Evidence is not ‘Fascist’
Aug 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf the authors are interested in European thought, they should reflect on what Sartre meant by ‘bad faith.’… Read the rest
Events of Interest to Skeptics
Aug 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEdinburgh, Norwich, Glasgow, London.… Read the rest
Somali Woman Publicly Flogged
Aug 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson11 lashes for selling $1 worth of cannabis; she pleaded innocence while being beaten.… Read the rest
Ehsan Masood on Leadership Troubles
Aug 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt’s time to move on from the idea of (mostly male) British Muslim ‘community leaders.’… Read the rest
Francis Wheen’s ‘Biography’ of Das Kapital
Aug 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonElements of the Gothic novel, Victorian melodrama, black farce, Greek tragedy and satirical utopia.… Read the rest
A N Wilson Reviews Roger Scruton
Aug 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFor a man whose calling is telling the truth it was a blow to be ‘exposed as the lickspittle of tobacco giants.’… Read the rest
Roger Scruton: Beware Irony-free Religion
Aug 23rd, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt is from a posture of irony that every real negotiation, offer of peace, acceptance of the other, begins.… Read the rest
Jesus and Mo Do Religion With Irony
Aug 23rd, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe barmaid helps them.… Read the rest