Experts find God’s ways of ensuring salvation cannot be known, ergo all are saved.… 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Students Flee Iraq’s Schools and Universities 
Oct 7th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Academics, especially scientists, have been targeted for assassination. … Read the rest
Benjamin Balint on Why Hannah Arendt Matters
Oct 6th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Arendt predicted that totalitarian tendencies will survive the death of the era of totalitarian states.… Read the rest
Secular Islam Summit March 2007
Oct 6th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
An international forum for secularists of Islamic societies.… Read the rest
God Disproved by Fact of Scepticism
Oct 6th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
God is of necessity too large and imposing to get lost in the sock-drawer.… Read the rest
Guardian Rebukes Jack Straw
Oct 6th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He ‘provoked anger and indignation among broad sections of the Muslim community yesterday.’… Read the rest
Jack Straw’s Article on Faces and Veils
Oct 6th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He thinks there is an issue.… Read the rest
Replies to Paul Vallely [scroll down]
Oct 6th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘These works of art were not self-censored out of sensitivity, but out of fear.’… Read the rest
Sen and Appiah Reviewed
Oct 6th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Both use their experiences to cut through the thickets of nationalism.… Read the rest
Motoon Row Helpful to BNP
Oct 5th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
New BNP leaflets with Motoons handed out in Sutton; Lal Hussain said residents were shocked.… Read the rest
Interview with Marjane Satrapi
Oct 5th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘The prat is international. The prat is everywhere.’… Read the rest
A Newly Discovered Frost Poem
Oct 5th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Scott McLemee on a vision of disturbance.… Read the rest
Jonathan Liu on Michael Bérubé
Oct 5th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Conservatives have somehow become both voices of intellectual “rigor” and allies of populist anti-intellectuals.’… Read the rest
Eric Alterman on Paul Berman on I F Stone
Oct 5th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Disservice to truth via faulty reading of bogus controversy over whether Stone ever spied for the Russians.… Read the rest
Berman Answers Alterman
Oct 5th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The controversy is not entirely bogus.… Read the rest
Philosophers Demand Help for Teacher
Oct 4th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
BHL, Finkielkraut, Glucksmann, others appeal to government to do more to help Redeker.… Read the rest
Shut Up, Explains Paul Vallely
Oct 4th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
People who don’t like religious silencing are ‘alarmists.’… Read the rest
John Carey and the Higher Destruction
Oct 4th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Having enjoyed a successful career as an elitist, he finds that elitism has become a dirty word.… Read the rest
Guardian Interviews Ruth Simmons
Oct 4th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
For me [reading] opened a window into a different reality, where it was possible for someone like me to be accepted… Read the rest
French Philosophy Teacher Still in Hiding
Oct 4th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
After ‘attack’ on Islam, says Guardian.… Read the rest
