‘Butterflies don’t live here, in the blogosphere.’ Speak for yourself, bub.… 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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
Handy Tool to Block Regulation 
Jun 27th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Data Quality Act was written not by a member of Congress but by a lobbyist. Surprise, surprise.… Read the rest
A C Grayling on the Human Rights Act
Jun 27th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Institutionalising rights guarantees inconveniences for politicians; and that is as it should be. … Read the rest
Girls’ Schools as Tragedy of the Commons
Jun 27th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Parents want girls in girls’ schools and boys in mixed schools. Er…… Read the rest
Political Assessments Bypass Reason
Jun 27th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A network of emotion circuits lights up.… Read the rest
Norm Geras on Crimes Against Humanity
Jun 26th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A talk given at the conference on the Politics of Mass Murder at Kingston University.… Read the rest
Paul Gross on Scientists on Intelligent Design
Jun 26th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
War between science and fundamentalist IDM is troubling for science education and science itself.… Read the rest
Review of David Brion Davis on Abolition
Jun 26th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A masterly overview of what scholars in the field have achieved over the past fifty years.… Read the rest
For Sen, Identities are Multiple
Jun 25th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Identity is constructed according to the modes of affiliation one chooses to emphasize at any point.… Read the rest
Christine Stansell on Jane Addams
Jun 25th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There is now a small revival of writing on Addams going on, after years of neglect.… Read the rest
Mark Crispin Miller on the Death of News
Jun 25th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Although its history is far from glorious, the US press has never been as bad as it is now.… Read the rest
Vatican Guy Warns Amnesty Int on Abortion
Jun 25th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
AI will be discredited if it pushes for global decriminalization of abortion, cardinal says.… Read the rest
Scientists ‘Playing God’? That’s Good News
Jun 25th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Muddled thinking is behind the worries.… Read the rest
One Evangelical Says Jesus Wasn’t a Republican
Jun 24th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The evangelical subculture, which prizes conformity above all else, doesn’t suffer rebels gladly.… Read the rest
The Study of Social Mobility
Jun 24th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What causes it? Character? Heredity? Luck? Hard work?… Read the rest
John Gray on Pankaj Mishra on European Influence
Jun 24th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘The current view of Islam as being somehow anti-western is just as unreal.’… Read the rest
Steve Poole on Why Truth Matters
Jun 24th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We don’t actually slap Derrida around, we slap one of his fans around. Different thing.… Read the rest
Survey on Attitudes in ‘West’ and ‘Islam’
Jun 23rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What about attitudes in North and Buddhism?… Read the rest
Taliban Continues Attacks on Female Half
Jun 23rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Taliban attacks and threats have disrupted or shut down more than 300 schools that teach girls.… Read the rest
The Uses of Ann Coulter
Jun 23rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She provides a substitute for racist trash-talk.… Read the rest
