Historian of philosophy and skepticism.… 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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Ratzinger Speaks 
Apr 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Homosexuality: ‘intrinsic moral evil.’… Read the rest
Panzerkardinal Beats the Odds
Apr 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Cardinal No born to parents named Joseph and Mary. … Read the rest
Atheists Should be Pleased About New Pope
Apr 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He’ll do wonders for creeping secularism. Hallelujah.… Read the rest
The One Thing Pope Stands for is Hierarchy
Apr 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Could be the long withdrawing roar of a sclerotic Kremlin-like empire.… Read the rest
Suspected Islamists Attack Galloway Meeting
Apr 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Disrespectful treatment of candidate in Bethnal Green.… Read the rest
Julian Baggini on the Ratzinger Opportunity
Apr 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To confront and slay the myth that without God anything is permitted. … Read the rest
Another Dogmatic Critic of Secularism
Apr 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
And another conflation of Christianity with morality.… Read the rest
Lost Works of Hesiod, Euripides, Sophocles
Apr 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are being decoded, and treasures being found.… Read the rest
Black Studies Departments Having Identity Crisis
Apr 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Some worry, others think they were a bogus idea to begin with.… Read the rest
Nick Cohen on Galloway and Respect
Apr 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Trots in burkas would be hilarious if they weren’t symptomatic of a shambolic left.… Read the rest
The Funding of Global Warming Skeptics
Apr 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Exxon funds think tanks and lobbying, Chris Mooney points out.… Read the rest
Salman Rushdie on The PEN and the Sword
Apr 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The effort to defend writers under attack by powerful interests who fear and threaten them.… Read the rest
Try to Read This Without Snickering
Apr 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The discursive limits of the Foucauldian concept of power as the sovereign exception over biopolitical life…… Read the rest
Oh Hooray, it’s the Scary One
Apr 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ratzinger is new pope.… Read the rest
Timely Homily Clinches Job for Ratzinger
Apr 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Denunciation of all deviations from traditional church teachings as trickery and error was a winner.… Read the rest
The Deity’s Rottweiler
Apr 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Has a reputation for stifling dissent; early campaign was against ‘liberation theology’ in Latin America. … Read the rest
Ariel Dorfman Remembers Jean-Paul Sartre
Apr 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He had taught that the truth tends to be a profanation of our expectations.… Read the rest
Interview With E O Wilson
Apr 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Contrary to postmodernism – each person a little universe – we really can unify knowledge.… Read the rest
Katha Pollitt on Andrea Dworkin
Apr 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She put some important hidden bits of reality out there on the table.… Read the rest
