Pamuk was charged under law forbidding calling Armenian genocide ‘genocide’.… 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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Afghan Editor on Trial for ‘Blasphemy’ 
Oct 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Editor of women’s rights magazine charged after after complaints from religious figures.… Read the rest
‘Religious Leaders’ Demand Long Sentence
Oct 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Nasab questioned the use of harsh punishments such as amputation and stoning.… Read the rest
Committee to Protect Journalists is Worried
Oct 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Articles in the magazine Women’s Rights deemed “un-Islamic” and “insulting to Islam” by local clerics.… Read the rest
Bad Poet Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Oct 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Good playwright though. … Read the rest
Pinter’s Dramatic Impact
Oct 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Pinter remains…a questioner of accepted truths.’ Some of them.… Read the rest
Rampant Violence Against Women
Oct 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
UN Population Fund report found 94 percent of women in Egypt think it’s ok to be beaten.… Read the rest
Only Greater Rights for Women Can End Poverty
Oct 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Report calls for government action to free women from poverty and ignorance their cultures impose.… Read the rest
18 Friends?! Who Even Knows That Many People?
Oct 12th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Friendship is the new sex – everybody pretends to be good at it.… Read the rest
The Most Blatant Religious Test Imaginable
Oct 12th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
You may not even be considered for the Supreme Court unless you have a religion of some kind. … Read the rest
Science by Assumption
Oct 12th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
ID is an insidious attempt by a religious caucus to impose its views on the whole US.… Read the rest
Wayne Booth 1921-2005
Oct 12th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Author of The Rhetoric of Irony, The Company We Keep, The Vocation of a Teacher.… Read the rest
Not Subconscious Drives but Helicobacter Pylori
Oct 12th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A bacterium causes ulcers.… Read the rest
The Muslim Brotherhood in France
Oct 12th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Muslim Brotherhood works to roll back secularism and assimilation.… Read the rest
John Banville Wins the Booker for The Sea
Oct 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He’s encouraged that people have responded to a book that’s very carefully crafted.… Read the rest
Archbishop of Canterbury Opposes Euthanasia
Oct 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Convinced ‘life is a gift from God that we cannot treat as a possession of our own to keep or throw away as we choose.’… Read the rest
Church Leaders Oppose Euthanasia Bill
Oct 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Anglican Bishop of Oxford says it’s wrong to elevate the principle of choice above all other values. … Read the rest
Peer Offers Compromise on Euthanasia Bill
Oct 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Archbishops oppose, 87% of people approve.… Read the rest
Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Theodore Dalrymple
Oct 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dalrymple has a following on the sarcastic right; the thoughtful left should be reading him.… Read the rest
ID and Approaching Theocracy
Oct 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Secularism will lose no matter what happens in Pennsylvnia court case.… Read the rest
