Student editors and Harvard English department not heroes but confused, says Stanley Fish.… 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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Alan Wolfe on ‘Diversity’ 
Jun 10th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What Americans think diversity is and what they think it isn’t.… Read the rest
The Tasaday
Jun 10th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Feuds within anthroplogy, questions about authenticity, palm leaves versus T shirts.… Read the rest
‘Watchdog’ versus Teachers’ Union
Jun 9th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is it discrimination to exclude disabled students who cause problems?… Read the rest
‘Watchdog’ versus Teachers’ Union
Jun 9th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is it discrimination to exclude disabled students who cause problems?… Read the rest
Hip, Relevant, In Your Face
Jun 8th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Entertaining, short, punchy, fast – poetry on tv. Next up: quantum mechanics lite.… Read the rest
Philosophers Useful After All?
Jun 7th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They can serve as logical police, with non-contradiction for a nightstick.… Read the rest
News Because I Only Just Now Found It
Jun 7th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Francis Cornford’s Microcosmographia Academica.… Read the rest
The Arts on Television
Jun 7th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Why is coverage of the arts not as good as it once was on UK television? … Read the rest
Two N.Y. Times Editors Resign
Jun 6th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd fall on swords in aftermath of Jayson Blair fraud.… Read the rest
The N.Y. Times on the N.Y. Times
Jun 6th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Many reporters and editors were disaffected in wake of Blair and Bragg.… Read the rest
What Separation of Church and State?
Jun 5th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What the Bush administration is doing to make religion even more intrusively mandatory in American life.… Read the rest
Review of A Devil’s Chaplain
Jun 5th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Praise for Richard Dawkins’ “marvellously contemptuous dismissal of ‘postmodernism’” and more.… Read the rest
Only ‘Faith’ Schools Allowed to Discriminate
Jun 4th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Churches successfully lobbied UK government, won right to fire gays in religious schools.… Read the rest
Interview with Azar Nafisi
Jun 4th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ideology, politicization of every part of life, intimidation, the value of discourse.… Read the rest
Exemption for ‘Faith’ Schools
Jun 3rd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Employment bill could allow religious schools to sack gay teachers.… Read the rest
Can We Stop Hearing About ‘Grief Counseling’ Now?
Jun 3rd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Those people rushed to the scene to ‘help’ don’t, research has finally shown.… Read the rest
Vice-Chancellors Disagree With Clarke
Jun 3rd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
An instrumental view of education is not the way to go.… Read the rest
Climbing Trees to Get to the Moon
Jun 2nd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Steven Pinker on why genetic enhancement is not inevitable.… Read the rest
What Does ‘Negative’ Mean?
Jun 1st, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Evelyn Fox Keller and Richard Lewontin discuss some epistemological issues.… Read the rest
