So they’d always want a new car so they must not be allowed to drive.… 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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No One Goes to Marylebone Starbucks to Shoot Up 
Jul 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
But why does anyone go to Starbucks? Frappucino, music, comfy chairs.… Read the rest
Jeremy Waldron on Judicial Review
Jul 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What passes for ‘reasoning’ in Supreme Court decisions is not about rights at all.… Read the rest
Mark Tushnet Replies to Waldron and Tribe
Jul 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Democracy, rights, interests; legislators, judges; how to reconcile.… Read the rest
Lawrence Tribe on Judicial Review
Jul 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Let the people decide? Dangerous sport.… Read the rest
High School Students Want More Challenge
Jul 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Almost two-thirds say they would work harder if courses were more demanding or interesting.… Read the rest
Aaronovitch on the Narcissism Factor
Jul 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Anything that conflicts with the Grievance discounted, anything that contributes to it emphasised.… Read the rest
Multiculturalism is at a Moment of Truth
Jul 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Drift from melting-pot altruism into salad-bowl separatism has morphed into something more sinister.… Read the rest
The Increasingly Fraught Word ‘Multiculturalism’
Jul 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
People who come from small villages and know nothing about living in the outside world.… Read the rest
Why We Signed ‘Unite Against Terror’
Jul 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Compelling reasons.… Read the rest
Apologists for Jihadists Not ‘Left’
Jul 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They are representatives of an illiberal post-modernist dunciad.… Read the rest
Problem is a Pernicious Ideology
Jul 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The cricket test is not all that informative.… Read the rest
Marx’s Philosophy, a Summary: You Get Screwed
Jul 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Marx good on symptoms, but vague – a born-again amateur Hegelian – on cures.… Read the rest
Marx Only Philosopher People Have Heard Of?
Jul 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Nor do our home-grown philosophers really punch their weight.… Read the rest
Talk of War Merely Bigs Up the Terrorists
Jul 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘When is someone going to get 18th century on Islam’s mediaeval ass?’… Read the rest
Catholic Church Organizing Protests in Spain
Jul 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Demo against gay marriage had air of nostalgia for certainties of Franco era.… Read the rest
Michael Ignatieff on Contradictions of Freedom
Jul 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The democratic turn in American foreign policy has been recent.… Read the rest
Mariano Aguirre on Contradictions of Ignatieff
Jul 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Can ‘reasonable people’ disagree about what constitutes torture?… Read the rest
Toronto Conference on Sharia Law [pdf]
Jul 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irshad Manji, Homa Arjomand on globalization of political Islam.… Read the rest
Nick Cohen on the BBC’s Special Vocabulary
Jul 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The pressure of events has pushed neutrality into euphemism.… Read the rest
