Vancouver Nov. 21, Victoria Nov. 22.… 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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
Evangelicals Have Learned to Play Victim 
Nov 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
When you make public arguments, you have to ground them in reason and evidence.… Read the rest
85 Lashes for Breaking Ramadan Fast
Nov 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
14 year old boy whipped to death in Sanandadj, Iran.… Read the rest
Denis Dutton Reviews Joseph Carroll
Nov 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
On literary Darwinism, the lust for stories, cognitive modules, pleasure.… Read the rest
Where Are Those Pesky Relativists, Anyway?
Nov 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Are criticisms of postmodernism just anti-intellectualism on the rampage?… Read the rest
Blame Canada – No, Wait, Blame Kant
Nov 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
David Blunkett blames Kant for scepticism about compulsory national identity card. … Read the rest
Intellectual Links Between India and China
Nov 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Religion is not the only way to understand people, Amartya Sen notes.… Read the rest
Was Derrida Like the Wizard or Like Toto?
Nov 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To himself, he was far more like the dog.… Read the rest
Vardy Academies and Creationism
Nov 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘As to the whole evolution proposition that we have evolved from slime, I just find it impossible to accept.’… Read the rest
Religous Conservativism Not Just a US Thing
Nov 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Aim is to protect ‘faith-based’ value system against encroaching secularism of west. … Read the rest
Jane Kramer on French Hijab Law and Islamism
Nov 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘But in France, with all its freedoms, so many young women seem to be capitulating to Islamist pressure.’… Read the rest
Guardian Readers on Livingstone and Qaradawi
Nov 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Why does mayor meet Qaradawi but not liberal Muslims and victims of Islamist repression and dictatorship?… Read the rest
Philosophy as Therapy via Thought-Clarification
Nov 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Tim LeBon cites the Symposium and Stoicism.… Read the rest
Many Xmas Humour Books Are Crap
Nov 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
But some aren’t. Independent fails to mention obvious exception.… Read the rest
Best Literary Lives
Nov 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Aubrey, Johnson, Gaskell, Malcolm. Add Boswell, Lewes, Holmes.… Read the rest
Hitchens on the Pornography of Power
Nov 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Kissinger told Guzzetti not to slow down the rate of kidnappings and murders but to speed it up.… Read the rest
Race, Class, Culture, and Education
Nov 15th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
How factors combine and then reinforce each other.… Read the rest
Iris Chang
Nov 15th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Her book outraged Japanese conservatives. Because?… Read the rest
Making No Sense in Defense of Nonsense
Nov 15th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Lacking empirical fact and logic, creationism uses political approaches to winning arguments.… Read the rest
James Trefil Reviews Richard Dawkins
Nov 15th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Great stuff – intriguingly written, honest about controversies, clear about the science.… Read the rest
