Following armed raids in London and Rome. … 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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Aatish Taseer Interviews ‘A British Jihadist’
Jul 29th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA few have rallied under a banner which brings an intense sense of grievance.… Read the rest
Part Two of Aatish Taseer’s Interview
Jul 29th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Until an Islamic government makes treaties with these people, the world, for me, is an enemy.’… Read the rest
Death Threats From ‘Pro-life’ Groups
Jul 29th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPeter Singer on the lack of radical critique of the status quo in the US.… Read the rest
Three People Talking About Philosophy [audio]
Jul 28th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTalking about arguments for God mostly.… Read the rest
A New Dictatorship in Iraq?
Jul 28th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOf mullahs over women.… Read the rest
Subjugation of Women Not On in UK
Jul 28th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMaybe ‘alienation’ comes from challenge to traditional feelings of male superiority.… Read the rest
Loonies Move to S. Carolina in ‘Christian Exodus’
Jul 27th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHope to establish ‘Biblical’ state. Even Bob Jones staff think they’re a bit much.… Read the rest
Liberal Academic Plays Golf Shock
Jul 27th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAnd there are others. No names, but that queer theorist, that Marxist analysis guy…… Read the rest
The Power of Ideas – Especially Bad Ones
Jul 27th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe power of an ideology that is not social, economic, ethnic, nationalist, or political.… Read the rest
Foucault and Laing and the Asylum
Jul 27th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonUnfortunate consequences.… Read the rest
The Netherlands After Bouyeri Conviction
Jul 27th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonVan Gogh murder has made people afraid to speak.… Read the rest
Time to Stop Polite Tiptoeing Around Religion
Jul 26th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhy are reason and enlightenment of less value than dogma and delusion?… Read the rest
Women’s Rights in Iraq Under Threat
Jul 26th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonReligious groups seek to write Islam into the new constitution.… Read the rest
Bouyeri Given Life Sentence
Jul 26th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonVan Gogh murderer had said he would do it again if given the chance.… Read the rest
The Coerciveness of ‘Family Values’
Jul 26th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBe like us or else.… Read the rest
Born-again Atheist Recommends RE
Jul 26th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSecular humanists have many reasons to be delighted at popularity of religious studies.… Read the rest
Mona Eltahawy is Out of Patience
Jul 25th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘It is at least in some way bigoted to think that Muslims can only react violently.’… Read the rest
Tariq Ramadan Says the Young are the Future
Jul 25th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘The young will have an enormous impact on the future.’ Very true.… Read the rest
The World Summit on Evolution
Jul 25th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonScience’s greatest strength: learning from disagreement.… Read the rest