Ayatollahs and MPs in Iran want ban on women in football stadiums to remain.… 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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Martin Kettle on the Euston Manifesto 
Apr 26th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A protest against the perceived obsession, dogmatism and influence of post-Iraq left politics.… Read the rest
Whither British Philosophers
Apr 26th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Unable to project themselves as effective public scrutineers of our mission and morals. … Read the rest
Claire Harman on Bragg’s Twelve
Apr 25th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Arkwright’s patent served to restrict knowledge rather than spread it.… Read the rest
On de Botton’s Architecture of Happiness
Apr 25th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Nobody could claim these are great revelations. But they have the virtue of being true.’… Read the rest
Alan Ryan on Jane Addams
Apr 25th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She presents us with almost too much to think about.… Read the rest
Laurie Taylor on Bragg’s Twelve
Apr 25th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Academics never nearby enough to moderate some of his less fortunate populist urges.… Read the rest
John Sutherland on Bragg’s Twelve
Apr 25th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bragg has established himself over the past decades as a fearlessly dedicated popular educator.… Read the rest
Review of Sen’s Identity and Violence
Apr 24th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Tunku Varadarajan finds it pretty but unrealistic.… Read the rest
Vatican Considers Condom Rules
Apr 24th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Might allow married people with HIV to use condoms.… Read the rest
Self-awareness Switched Off During Concentration
Apr 23rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Brain assumes a robotic functionality when it has to concentrate on a difficult, timed task.… Read the rest
Women’s Autonomy Under Threat
Apr 23rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Religious enclaves encouraging women to go back to when they were men’s property, not their own.… Read the rest
Richard Schoch Skeptical of Positive Psychology
Apr 23rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Lasting and profound happiness isn’t about feeling good, it’s about being good.… Read the rest
Is a Happy Human the Same as a Good Human?
Apr 23rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What would Herbert Spencer think?… Read the rest
The Disturbing World of Implicit Bias
Apr 23rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We may not always think what we think we think.… Read the rest
Wot’s an Intellectual?
Apr 22nd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A bag of wind? A small-breasted man? A woman who doesn’t wash much? … Read the rest
Boredom
Apr 22nd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is boredom emotional recuperation, or is it just boredom?… Read the rest
Evolution Should be Taught as Fact, not Theory
Apr 22nd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We should no longer talk of the theory of evolution as ‘just an idea’, says Richard Pike.… Read the rest
Byatt on Roth
Apr 22nd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Philip Roth is the great recorder of Darwinian Man, ‘a poor, bare, forked animal’.… Read the rest
Creationism Conference in Derbyshire
Apr 22nd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To hear academics defend the view that God made the Earth in six days about 6,000 years ago.… Read the rest
