Richard Sennett’s Respect ‘draws on fields normally guarded by specialists: urbanism, psychology, literature, architecture, the history of ideas’.… 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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Unoriginal, and False 
Mar 7th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Colin McGinn disagrees with Damasio’s version of the James-Lange theory of emotion.… Read the rest
So Far So Good…Maybe
Mar 6th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
But what happens when the results are bad? When students mark teachers down for not being entertaining enough?… Read the rest
Born or Made?
Mar 6th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is gayness in the genes or in the will, and who thinks which, and why.… Read the rest
Life Explained
Mar 5th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
ALDaily on Difference Feminism, or anyway on Difference.… Read the rest
And He Wasn’t Even Cool
Mar 5th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sometimes a teacher can change lives.… Read the rest
The Therapy-Science Gap
Mar 4th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Therapists and clinical psychologists believe things that evidence has shown to be false, and there is danger in that.… Read the rest
Outrage Inflation
Mar 4th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
No more of those petty little conspiracy theories, now it’s time for the big stuff.… Read the rest
Just Don’t Talk About It
Mar 4th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Maybe dwelling on one’s problems isn’t all that curative after all?… Read the rest
Golden Rice
Mar 3rd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Critics of GM are missing the point.… Read the rest
Literature Subverts Dogmatism
Mar 3rd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Irving Howe’s taste for the complication and open-endedness of literature played hell with his Marxist certainties. … Read the rest
Galen Strawson Reviews Daniel Dennett
Mar 2nd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dennett on the evolution of freedom.… Read the rest
Part History Part Polemic
Mar 2nd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
And marred by bad arguments, Simon Wessely says of this book about science and the chemical weapons industry.… Read the rest
Midgley Reviews Dennett
Mar 2nd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘He tries much harder than he has before to show that he understands the importance of our inner life.’… Read the rest
Honderich Reviews Williams
Mar 2nd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
And does not desire to be somplace else.… Read the rest
Warning Signs of Fakery
Mar 1st, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We all need to be able to detect bogus claims, Robert Park says.… Read the rest
Fear of the Improvised, Ambiguous or Indeterminate
Mar 1st, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Writing is always profane and promiscuous, Terry Eagleton says. … Read the rest
What Spinoza Knew
Feb 28th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Scientific American reviews Antonio Damasio’s Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.… Read the rest
Teachers Win a Decision
Feb 28th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The law lords in the UK decided teachers may refuse to teach students who have been expelled for violence then reinstated.… Read the rest
What Teachers Have to Face
Feb 28th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Violent students and low-level bad behavior drive teachers out of teaching.… Read the rest
